This epic sci-fi thriller is available in English for the first time. The author of The Quiet Man takes us to the pleasure moon of Eidolon, where danger lurks in every shadow. **INCLUDES FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS** “Brutal, addictive and so tense that it took my breath away. The ending gave me vertigo.” — Natalia Meraki “A cocktail of Deadspace, Terminator, and The Wizard of Oz that you’ll want to chug in one go!” — Guillermo Blazquez

Neither Garland nor Gary Hansen ever believed in ghosts. During Labor Day weekend of 2001, the 14-year-old brothers venture to an abandoned hospital in their hometown where they become believers. After their mother does not believe their ghostly story, the brothers become determined to prove that supernatural occurrences happen. During their college years, they meet another amateur paranormal enthusiast and form Ghost Mill Investigations. In 2011, the now- professional ghost hunters get a call to investigate one of the worst institutions on the East Coast. Along with their fellow investigator, the brothers meet with former residents of the hospital and learn only some of what made the hospital so horrific. It is only during their investigation that they discover much more than they ever would have thought possible with an entity stronger than anything any of them had ever experienced. The evidence they gather during their investigation leaves no doubt that Shenandoah Lodge State Hospital is truly haunted.

Handbook for role-playing game set in Earth, 2090 AD.

Break your chains! The Pathfinder RPG contains numerous rules considered sacred by players and GMs alike. Since the system itself was based upon RPG "technology" already more than 10 years old at the time of its creation, "backwards compatibility" often meant sticking with the familiar, even if tradition was filled with cobwebs and decades-old assumptions. Pathfinder Unchained dares to take a fresh look at the system itself, altering some of the fundamentals of the game and giving fresh optional takes on classic rules. Inside this hardcover collection of alternate rules and options you'll find completely redesigned versions of the barbarian, monk, rogue, and summoner classes. Delve into a new system for resolving player actions designed to speed play and dispel confusion. Many of the new systems (such as the revised classes) work seamlessly with the existing Pathfinder rules. Even the most staunchly traditionalist player will appreciate the book's math-lite system for on-the-fly monster creation and the new system for generating dynamic magic items that go far beyond a simple +1 to add lore and interest to the campaign. Players will love the book's new resource pool for martial characters, allowing for exciting new tactical options, as well as the robust new system that allows spellcasters to modify their spells with powerful spell components.

The spirited narration of the scenes and the themes of recognition and revelation from Homer and Genesis to the major classical, Medieval, and modern writers: anagnorisis as the living, moving encounter between two human beings.

Piero Boitani discusses how some of the most fascinating scenes of Old and New Testament — Genesis, Exodus, Job, the Susanna story, the Gospel of John — are directly or indirectly rewritten in works ranging from the medieval period to the late twentieth-century: by Milton and Mann; by Chaucer, Dryden, La Fontaine, Orwell, and Kafka; by Faulkner and Tournier; by Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, and Joseph Roth. Literature resonates with the mystery of recognition between human beings, and between God and humankind. The opening and closing chapters of the book examine this theme: from Abraham and Yahweh at Mamre to Joseph and his brothers, from Helen and Menelaus to Jesus and Mary Magdalene, from Pericles and Marina to Mendel Singer and his son Menuchim. The three central sections of the book discuss the means by which re-scripturing interprets the Scriptures: through truth or fiction; through letter or allegory; through liturgy, exegesis, catacomb frescoes, even churches themselves. This is an illuminating look at the Bible and its medieval and modern rewritings.

The simple memory technique in the book has never been explored fully before. Please be surprise that you will be much better than your peers after using the technique. There are two main advantages of the memory technique: 1)To help you to memorize the meaning of a word. For example, ego [oneself] -- The first letter of the linked word 'oneself' is 'o' which is the same as the last letter of 'ego'. The connection should tell you the meaning of 'ego'. See more examples as below. imp [infant] -- check the link between the letters 'i'; notion [idea] -- check the link between the letters 'i'; cerebral [brain] -- check the link between the letters 'b'; 2)To help you to distinguish easily confused words migrate [move] -- check the link between the letters 'm'; immigrate [in] -- check the link between the letters 'i'; emigrate [exit] -- check the link between the letters 'e'; stationary [abiding] check the link between the letters 'a'; stationery [envelope] check the link between the letters 'e'; Very simple and easy indeed! There more secrets in the book.

Contemporary readers face a literature that seems to ‘speak for’ them, yet they often struggle to say just how or why. Out of the deluge of works from such writers as Barth, Barthelme, Beckett, Borges, Brooke-Rose, Burroughs, Butor, Calvino, Cortázar, Federman, Fuentes, Le Guin, Márquez, McElroy, Nabokov, O’Brien, Pynchon, Robbe-Grillet, Sanguineti, Sarraute, Sollers, Sukenick, Tolkien, Vonnegut, new words and world-models that demand understanding fill the air. Yet they seem frequently beyond reach because the framework of ideas within which this often brilliant but seemingly bewilderingly disparate flood of discourses might make sense remains largely unexpressed. Beginning with the first concisely concerted assessment in English of the premisses and practice of Realism as viewed by those who feel that there is no choice but to move on, this book (first published in 1987) confronts the vocabulary and rhetoric of current radical theory with the actual procedures of post-war fiction. In a spirit of challenging experiment, it scrutinizes the themes, motifs, and strategies of contemporary narrative and reveals an unsuspected continuity of hitherto concealed premisses and dilemmas built into recent postmodern and poststructuralist thought. As provocative as the literature it regards, it proposes that anti-Realism is no longer merely a ‘movement’ – that it has become a massive and equally conventionalized and problematical tradition living alongside Realism throughout the Western world.