The Time-Traveler and the Vampires of Light

The Time-Traveler and the Vampires of Light

Author: Dan Bune

Publisher: Cadeus Solutions LLC

Published: 2024-07-11

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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Introduction: In the tapestry of existence, where the threads of time wove a complex dance, emerged a figure unlike any other — Xander, the multi-dimensional time traveler. His presence was a whisper in the cosmic winds, a shimmer in the fabric of reality, for he had mastered the ancient and elusive art of pausing time. Millennia unfurled like the pages of an eternal book as Xander delved into the mysteries of existence. His quest for knowledge led him to celestial beings, guardians of realms beyond mortal comprehension. Amongst the ethereal, he learned the intricacies of temporal manipulation, threading through the frozen moments of existence with an otherworldly grace. Among the celestial beings, Xander sought out masters in the enigmatic frozen reality that only a chosen few could navigate. Master Bruce Lee, a legend in the martial arts, became the guide to physical and mental prowess. Under the tutelage of Bruce Lee, Xander harnessed the energy that resonated within his very being. Master Buddha, serene and enlightened, imparted timeless wisdom transcending the boundaries of time itself. Xander learned to find balance amidst the chaos, drawing from the well of inner peace that Buddha revealed. In the shadow of ancient mountains, Master Po, the Dragon Warrior, bestowed upon Xander the secrets of combat and the essence of courage. Po, with a touch of humor and the wisdom of ages, became a beacon in the frozen tapestry of Xander's existence. Little did Xander know that his journey through the epochs had silent witnesses — the "Vampires of Light." Immortal beings, devoted to preserving the delicate balance of existence, they observed Xander's mastery from the celestial shadows. Their radiant glow concealed eons of wisdom, and their purpose was as mysterious as the dimensions through which Xander traversed. As the cosmic clock ticked in the silent corridors of eternity, Xander stood at the crossroads of time, a weaver of moments, a seeker of balance. The celestial beings, the legendary masters, and the silent observers prepared to play their parts in the unfolding epic that spanned the ages. The stage was set, and Xander, the time traveler, prepared to unravel the secrets of the boundless tapestry that lay before him.


A Tale of Two Vampires

A Tale of Two Vampires

Author: Katie Macalister

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-09-04

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1101602635

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Time isn’t always on a vampire’s side.... Iolanthe Tennyson has had a very bad year—due in part to the very bad men in her life. So she’s accepted her cousin’s invitation to spend the summer in Austria to indulge her photography hobby. Rumors of a haunted forest there draw Iolanthe into the dark woods—and into the eighteenth century.... Nikola Czerny is a cursed man, forced by his half brothers to live forever as a Dark One. But his miserable existence takes an intriguing turn when a strange, babbling woman is thrown in his path. Iolanthe claims to know Nikola’s daughter—three hundred years in the future. She also knows what fate—in the form of his murderous half brothers—has in store for him. If only she knew the consequences of changing the past to save one good, impossibly sexy vampire...


The Naked And The Undead

The Naked And The Undead

Author: Cynthia Freeland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-05

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0429975864

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Horror is often dismissed as mass art or lowbrow entertainment that produces only short-term thrills. Horror films can be bloody, gory, and disturbing, so some people argue that they have bad moral effects, inciting viewers to imitate cinematic violence or desensitizing them to atrocities. In The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror, Cynthia A. Freeland seeks to counter both aesthetic disdain and moral condemnation by focusing on a select body of important and revealing films, demonstrating how the genre is capable of deep philosophical reflection about the existence and nature of evil?both human and cosmic. In exploring these films, the author argues against a purely psychoanalytic approach and opts for both feminist and philosophical understandings. She looks at what it is in these movies that serves to elicit specific reactions in viewers and why such responses as fear and disgust are ultimately pleasurable. The author is particularly interested in showing how gender figures into screen presentations of evil.The book is divided into three sections: Mad Scientists and Monstrous Mothers, which looks into the implications of male, rationalistic, scientific technology gone awry; The Vampire's Seduction, which explores the attraction of evil and the human ability (or inability) to distinguish active from passive, subject from object, and virtue from vice; and Sublime Spectacles of Disaster, which examines the human fascination with horror spectacle. This section concludes with a chapter on graphic horror films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Written for both students and film enthusiasts, the book examines a wide array of films including: The Silence of the Lambs, Repulsion, Frankenstein, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Alien, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, Frenzy, The Shining, Eraserhead, Hellraiser, and many others.


Dracula Unbound

Dracula Unbound

Author: Brian W. Aldiss

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 150401037X

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In a brilliant reimagining of Bram Stoker’s horror classic, an inventor travels back in time to save humankind from a nightmarish enslavement by vampires Joe Bodenland has figured out how to manipulate time—a discovery that leads him to Utah and an impossible sixty-five-million-year-old human gravesite. It is here that he learns of the existence of a monstrous race of intelligent predators as old as the dinosaur, and of the remarkable “train” the undead creatures use to travel back and forth from a Paleolithic past to a monstrous far future in which Homo sapiens are enslaved cattle. With the fate of all humanity at stake, Joe commandeers the ghostly transportation and rides it back to Victorian England, where he enlists the aid of a powerful ally, the author Bram Stoker, in the battle to secure Earth. But to prevent the coming apocalyptic nightmare, they must first confront and destroy the most cunning and deadly being the world has ever known: Lord Dracula, the immortal vampire. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and the Prix Jules Verne, Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss puts a bold new science ficion spin on Bram Stoker’s classic tale of vampiric horror. An ingenious reinvention of the Nosferatu myth, Dracula Unbound is a breakneck thrill ride from one of the most revered names in science fiction and fantasy.


Nightlord

Nightlord

Author: Garon Whited

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-31

Total Pages: 780

ISBN-13: 9780692524336

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It's not easy, being King. Especially since he has an allergy to sunrise and sunset, a fire-goddess for a mother-in-law, demonic adversaries, random assassins, and a basement full of insecurities to cope with. Add to that his daughter, the priestess/princess, a couple of lightly-deranged professional magicians, a whole city full of wizards, and enough squabbling princes to resemble a kindergarten argument. It's enough to make a man want to just go home. Luckily for Eric, he has the world's largest pet rock, a smart-mouthed sword, and a horse that not only understands him, but likes him anyway.


The Time Travelers Tales

The Time Travelers Tales

Author: C. Bryan Koltes

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2021-11-24

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 1638678448

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The Time Travelers Tales By: C. Bryan Koltes The Time Travelers Tales comes first as an explanation to the way things are, the way things were, and the ways things shall be. Cooper and Sean are just the beginning, to help explain in a way from a human perspective. The time courts control the known expanding universe, and time travelers move through time creating never-ending timelines and outcomes. Time travelers come in many shapes and sizes, with varied technologies and strange, new spices.


Vampires and Light

Vampires and Light

Author: Jody Jensen Shaffer

Publisher: Capstone Classroom

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1620658208

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"In cartoon format, uses vampires to explain the science of light"--


The History Of Ghosts, Vampires and The Philadelphia Experiment

The History Of Ghosts, Vampires and The Philadelphia Experiment

Author: Aislinn Satu

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-05-22

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1105790312

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This special collection is the true history of Ghosts, Vampires and The Philadelphia Experiment (U.S. Government Experiments with Invisibility, Time Travel and Mind Control). It's everything you want to know about three very popular paranormal topics with a lot of information and true stories that you have NOT heard before. You will not be the same after reading these amazing facts...


Blindsight

Blindsight

Author: Peter Watts

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-10-03

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1429955198

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Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Sweetblood

Sweetblood

Author: Pete Hautman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1439108749

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Sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is Undead -- at least according to her own theories about vampirism. Lucy believes that the first vampires -- with their pale skin, long teeth, and uncontrollable thirst -- were dying diabetics. And she should know. She's a diabetic herself. When Lucy becomes involved with Draco -- a self-proclaimed "real" vampire she meets in the Transylvania Internet chat room -- her world begins crashing down around her. Caught up in late-night parties and Goth culture, she begins to lose control of her grades, relationships, and health. Lucy realizes she needs to make some important choices, and fast. But it may already be too late.