This is a lengthy, but exciting novel of how a promising young boy becomes molded into a horrific individual. It explains about the persons life in such detail, that emotions literally explode into a wavering array of uninterruptible events. Leading to endless scenes of inhumane atrocities. Feeding on this individuals frail and developing psyche. ALLEN SHAW: The chainsaw man, became what all people would come to fear the most. Something out of our darkest dreams. Driven solely by an incurable rage inflicted on him by a mixture of influences. Taking the reader directly into the mind of this gruesome monster of a man who carries a chainsaw. Dwelling in the famed BIG THICKET or Texas. This novel will take one literally back to a time in the 1960s 1970s; Its drastically differed ways of thinking, and ways of life. Where the great American landscapes were still fiercely ever in tact. Its values, and ways of conversing with all that is inside. Its ways of being. A literally terrifying novel where one is chased forever in this thick tangle of jungle-like Texas land. A blood encrusted warrior who does the unspeakable. It will undoubtedly frighten, but it will equally reveal a heartfelt pain that is very real among most of us. The need to be loved and accepted. This torture survivor remembers a different place: a different time. It is told now in the long gone genr of a good old fashioned horror/slash thriller that WE of the 70s know and will fondly recall. I take the reader by the hand and lead him into my world. Where the realities that men do onto unsuspecting others. The horrific impact following. The literal mental state that thrives ever so fluently in the collective unconscious of modern man. Never forget that he is stalking you! Dont go in the woods alone . . . The CHAIN SAW MAN is coming!! For the chain saw man will forever live in infamy . . . In the back woods of us all.

31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead Volume II is a continuation of short stories authored by Horror fiction writer Drac Von Stoller. More scary tales about ghosts, witches, supernatural, occult, demons, zombies, aliens and urban legends.

When a beautifully crafted but seemingly empty box, the family heirloom of the Kings of Hariyupa, accidentally breaks, a hidden chamber containing a book and a copper plaque is revealed. As the King had to go somewhere, Ekrat, the eldest grandson of the King is entrusted to read the unveiled contents. When the King returns, Ekrat tells the King that the book chronicles the life of Bhanu Pratap – The first and the greatest king of the civilization. As Ekrat started narrating the untold story of Bhanu Pratap, he not only reveals the story, but also various concepts of life – including that of friendship, which propelled Bhanu from being a poor shepherd to a civilization builder. Why was the book hidden in the secret chamber of the box? What life concepts did the book reveal? Why was the copper plaque hidden along with the book and what was inscribed on it? To get the answers to these burning questions, read the book to embark on the magical adventure that Ekrat had.

Ram has been ignored and dismissed his entire life. His parents patronise him, his older brother belittles him, his class pretends he doesn’t exist, and he is certain he will fail his impending A-Levels. The only good part of his life is Kass, a fellow outsider he has known since childhood. But when the bruises on Kass from her abusive father get worse and worse, Ram decides to don a mask and frighten him into changing his ways. After his scare tactic goes fatally wrong, the mask he wore calls out to him again to clean the city's filth. Neo-noir thriller meets coming-of-age mystery, catskull explores the violence inherent in an unforgiving city and what it does to the people who inhabit it. It complicates questions of what is right, what is lawful, and who pays the price in the quest for justice. "Myle Yan Tay’s debut novel is a sharp, dark look at the education system as a potential site of violence and harm. This is writing that doesn’t flinch and dares the reader to sit with and in discomfort while excavating deeply existential questions about what defines who we are as a society and the individuals who build (or break) it." —Pooja Nansi, Author of We Make Spaces Divine

Book One of the Elements Incarnate Series. Appearing on the earth with no recollection of his past, Athar fights to get a grip on his life’s purpose. Through the teachings of a mysterious old man named Nemoserko, who visits him in his dreams, he learns of his identity as the elemental incarnation of air. Using his amazing abilities to control the wind and transform into a mighty dragon, our hero must traverse the realm in search of his three companions born of earth, fire, and water. Through his ties to The Creator himself, Athar comes to realize that a being of darkness named Xhenidrix has entered the world through the meddling of a tribe of cannibalistic natives. It is now up to Athar to locate his team of elemental brethren and thwart their demonic opponent along with his army of the undead before they achieve their aspirations. Will Athar be able find the others and become one with the intricate workings of his atmospheric powers in time to resist? Or will the denizens of the planet fall into the terrifying grasp of the bloodthirsty creature from hell?

Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the Irish identity it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change in recent years: the first as a result of technological and wider industrial changes in the organisation and dissemination of music as seen, for example, with digital platforms such as YouTube, Spotify and iTunes. A second factor has been Ireland’s spectacular fall from economic grace after the demise of the "Celtic Tiger", and the ensuing crisis of national identity. Smyth argues that if, as the stereotypical association would have it, the Irish have always been a musical race, then that association needs re-examination in the light of developments in relation to both cultural practice and political identity. This book contributes to that process through a series of related case studies that are both scholarly and accessible. Some of the principal ideas broached in the text include the (re-)establishment of music as a key object of Irish cultural studies; the theoretical limitations of traditional musicology; the development of new methodologies specifically designed to address the demands of Irish music in all its aspects; and the impact of economic austerity on musical negotiations of Irish identity. The book will be of seminal importance to all those interested in popular music, cultural studies and the wider fate of Ireland in the twenty-first century.

Gabriel can still feel his wings, even though they were severed from his body nearly two thousand years ago. He and Laura, have just happily reunited with the daughter they once thought was dead, despite being caught in a fierce battle between the Mafia and the Roman Catholic Church. But now as he watches his daughter, Belle, attempt to lead a normal life despite losing a hand in a fight with her long-time nemesis, Gabriel knows he will do anything to restore his beloved daughters original beauty. Because of her unique physiology, Belle thinks there is not a surgeon in the world who can reattach her hand. But Gabriel knows of someone who may be willing to perform the operation. Unfortunately, Malevar the Grey Priest is not exactly from this worldand the last time Gabriel and he met, each had attempted to kill the other. In a different dimension with few gateways, Gabriel embarks on a fateful journey where he must find allies before he can strike a deal to save his daughter. In this continuing fantasy tale, a fathers unconditional love drives his perilous mission within a strange land where he soon discovers a dark force wants far more from him than he ever imagined.

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'Doyle is as good as everyone – from John Boyne to Colm Tóibín – says he is' Daily Mail A young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets a vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing a break-up finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend's red shoes. And whatever happened to Killian Turner, Ireland's vanished literary outlaw? Lost and isolated, the characters in these masterful stories play out their fragmented relationships in a series of European cities, always on the move; from rented room to darkened apartment, hitchhiker's roadside to Barcelona nightclub. Rob Doyle, a shape-shifting drifter, a reclusive writer, also stalks the book's pages. Layering narratives and splicing fiction with non-fiction, This is the Ritual tells of the ecstatic, the desperate and the uncertain. Immersive, at times dreamlike, and frank in its depiction of sex, the writer's life, failed ideals and the transience of emotions, it introduces an unmistakable new literary voice.

Every city has its odd and scary side, and Dayton is no exception. The ghost of Paul Sorg still sits in his favorite seat in the Sorg Opera House more than a hundred years after his death. The so-called phantom terrorized truck drivers crossing the Englewood Dam before disappearing for good. The famed Butter Street Monster roams Germantown. Magee Park is home to numerous bigfoot and ghost sightings--and even a unicorn sighting. A building of many names, the tower on Patterson Boulevard in Kettering near Hills and Dales Park has been the source of many stories for generations, but only now is its true story finally told. Dayton native, author, and host of the Dayton Unknown blog Sara Kaushal leads a chilling tour of Gem City's strange and unusual history.