A Season of Sinister Dreams

A Season of Sinister Dreams
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Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9780316460422
ISBN-13 : 0316460427
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis A Season of Sinister Dreams by : Tracy Banghart

Furyborn meets A Curse So Dark and Lonely in this thrilling fantasy about two powerful girls coming together to protect their beloved kingdom—from the author of Grace and Fury. Annalise may be cousin to the prince, but her past isn't what she claims, and she possesses a magic so powerful it takes all her strength to control it. Evra is a country girl, and has watched as each friend and family member came into their own magic, while hers remains dormant. But everything changes after Annalise loses control of herself and Evra begins experiencing the debilitating visions of a once-in-a-generation clairvoyant meant to serve the crown. Thrown together at court, Evra and Annalise find that they have the same goal: to protect their kingdom from the powerful men who are slowly destroying it. But neither is quick to trust the other—Evra's visions suggest a threat to royal rule, and Annalise worries that her darkest secrets will be revealed. Their magic at odds, the young women circle each other, until the truth must come out. Full of intrigue, romance, and shocking twists, this gorgeously immersive fantasy will keep readers spellbound until the very last page.

10,000 Dreams Interpreted

10,000 Dreams Interpreted
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Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 0760705259
ISBN-13 : 9780760705254
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by : Gustavus Hindman Miller

Includes index.

Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists

Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780786463909
ISBN-13 : 0786463902
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists by : Sharon Packer, M.D.

Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari is not cinema's first psychotic charlatan, but he launches the stereotype of screen psychiatrists who are sicker than their patients. Many film psychiatrists function as political metaphors, while many more reflect real life clinical controversies. This book discusses films with diabolical drugging, unethical experimentation, involuntary incarceration, sexual exploitation, lobotomies, "shock schlock," conspiracy theories and military medicine, to show how fact informs fantasy, and when fantasy trumps reality. Traditional asylum thrillers changed after hospital stays shortened and laws protected people against involuntary commitment. Except for six short "golden years" from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was.

SINISTER OMENS: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries

SINISTER OMENS: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 13811
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547755036
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis SINISTER OMENS: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries by : Wilhelm Hauff

There is no better reading sensation than feeling the end of your hair raised in a nail-biting suspense. Here's presenting you our biggest ever supernatural collection to give you many hours of pleasurable and just enough eerie reading experience: Contents: Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of the Red Death The Murders in the Rue Morgue... H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror... Henry James: The Turn of the Screw... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein... Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles... Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars... Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow... Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde... James Malcolm Rymer: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street H. G. Wells: The Island of Doctor Moreau Richard Marsh: The Beetle Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas... Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls... Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw... Hugh Walpole: Portrait of a Man with Red Hair All Souls' Night Robert E. Howard: The 'John Kirowan' Saga The 'De Montour' Saga Cthulhu Mythos M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret... The Woman in White Guy de Maupassant: The Horla... E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Man Who Went Too Far... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark... Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? The Ways of Ghosts Some Haunted Houses Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan... William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder... M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire... Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy... Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep

The Craig Kennedy Series

The Craig Kennedy Series
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 302
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783732667604
ISBN-13 : 373266760X
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Craig Kennedy Series by : Arthur B. Reeve

Reproduction of the original: The Craig Kennedy Series by Arthur B. Reeve

Buddhist Insight

Buddhist Insight
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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages : 494
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ISBN-10 : 8120806751
ISBN-13 : 9788120806757
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Buddhist Insight by : Alex Wayman

The present volume selcts twenty-four of Prof. Wayman`s published research papers around the topic of Buddhist Insight, and includes only strong, well developed papers consistent with the topic. Students of Buddhism and general Indian religion will find here a rich offering of genuine research with the best of sources and Wayman`s own thoughtful presentations and original organization of the information. The papers begin with Buddha as Savior among the latest and end with the earliest in this volume, Twenty one Praises of Tara.The Hindu and Buddhist Studies illustrate Wayman`s comparative approach by showing both sides in their strong independence, and sensitively revealing their relation.

Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Dravidians-Fichte

Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Dravidians-Fichte
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 934
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112024918416
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Dravidians-Fichte by : James Hastings

Scope: theology, philosophy, ethics of various religions and ethical systems and relevant portions of anthropology, mythology, folklore, biology, psychology, economics and sociology.

American Science Fiction Television and Space

American Science Fiction Television and Space
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9783031105289
ISBN-13 : 3031105281
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis American Science Fiction Television and Space by : Joel Hawkes

This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as science fiction technology), in which forms, processes, and productions of space and time collide – a multiplicity of spaces produced and (re)configured. The book looks to be a heterotopic production, with different chapters and “spaces” (of genre, production, mediums, technologies, homes, bodies, etc), reflecting, refracting, and colliding to offer insight into spatial relationships and the implications of these spaces for a society that increasingly inhabits the world through the space of the screen. A focus on American science fiction offers further spatial focus for this study – a question of geographical and cultural borders and influence not only in terms of American science fiction but American television and streaming services. The (contested) hegemonic nature of American science fiction television will be discussed alongside a nation that has significantly been understood, even produced, through the television screen. Essays will examine the various (re)configurations, or productions, of space as they collapse into the science fiction heterotopia of television since 1987, the year Star Trek: Next Generation began airing.