![]() ![]() ![]() This chilling tale is not to be missed by lovers of fantasy and horror fiction. This short, stormy stay in the mansion led to a horror story writing competition in which famous tales such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were first produced.ĭecadent, sinister, and macabre The Vampyre started the enduring fascination with bloodsucking monsters that produced stories such as Bram Stoker's Dracula. The Vampyre was written during the 'Lost Summer of 1816', when John William Polidori was among the group of friends who accompanied Lord Byron to the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva. The copy text used is in the public domain. A Tale(1816) was produced by course participants in ENG 425: Studies in Romanticism, Spring 2010 at Arizona State University under the direction of Dr. When Ruthven reappears in London alive and well, Aubrey realises that his friend might be hiding dark and horrifying truths behind his seductive fabrication. This annotated edition and its accompanying audiobook version of John William Polidori's novella The Vampyre. As he draws his last breaths, he pleads with Aubrey to keep his death a secret for just over a year. While travelling in Europe amid rumours of vampire killings, the pair are attacked, leaving Ruthven on his death bed. A young gentleman named Aubrey is fascinated by the suave stranger and is intrigued by his often curious behaviour. Lord Ruthven is a mysterious newcomer among England's social elite. John William Polidori's classic gothic horror tale, The Vampyre, recounts one of the first vampire stories in English literature. Read reviews and buy The Vampyre - A Tale (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - by John William Polidori (Paperback) at Target. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is a weird complaint, but Nyxia was too high-octane for me. There were two things I didn’t like in Nyxia: how high-octane it was, and how trope-dependent it was. The things I didn’t like in Nyxia were all fixed, and then Reintgen even added a few more things that I had no idea I wanted, and I’m so glad I got a chance to read this! Ok, I really enjoyed Nyxia, even though there were a few things I wasn’t into, but HOLY SHIT WOW THIS WAS SO MUCH BETTER.Įven though my star rating is only half a star higher (yeah, crazy), Nyxia Unleased was far superior to book one. There’s actually not really any major spoilers for book 1 ahead. Will the Genesis team make it out alive before it’s too late? ![]() Now Emmett and the rest of the Genesis survivors must rally and forge their own path through a new world, trying to extract enough nyxia to satisfy their employers and get their way back home, all while playing nice with the indigenous Adamite population.īut Emmett and the others quickly realize they are caught between two powerful forces-Babel and the Adamites-with clashing desires. ![]() It didn’t take long for Emmett Atwater to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one. ![]() ![]() ![]() He couldn’t turn away from that precipice. ![]() “Because you’d miss me if I died?” “Because of the information they’d squeeze from you before you did.” “ Cold, Day. We suspect that she and Lightfall have left a trail of bodies all around the countryside.” Day was quiet for a moment, then asked, “ Do you know the name of the ship that’s carrying the prototype?” “No.” “What island?” “Why are you grilling me on this?” “I want to make sure it’s not a trap.” He grinned. But we’re hoping we can convince whoever is there from Command otherwise. “ Is Spetsos being given command of the Valbaran front?” “I don’t know. ![]() We have some questions for her about … a missing person.” She straightened. “We got word that Pippa Spetsos and her Lightfall squadron will also be present. “ Who’s going to be there?” “He angled his head. Dec had added, Do you know what that does to a male’s ego? Ithan had only grunted his agreement, but hadn’t argued, a distant expression on his face. You’re benching poor Holstrom, Flynn had complained. Flynn, Dec, and Ithan would remain- too many people going would raise suspicions. And Tharion would join them, as the River Queen had ordered him to. And because Bryce was going, Ruhn was going. And because Athalar was going, Bryce was going. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But her newfound happiness turns to terror when her stalker finds her. Hannah finds herself embracing love with all three men-and hoping she can heal Gavin's wounded soul. She grows closer to each, their devotion melting her inhibitions. Now, they're hoping that not only will Hannah love them back, but maybe mend their fractured family as well.Īfter overcoming her initial fears, the men teach her wild pleasure she's never imagined. Though Slade and Dex don't mind sharing, Gavin's tragic past has put distance between him and his brothers. Once alone with her, none of them can contain their burning desire. But when a dangerous predator begins stalking the small-town beauty, they work together to protect her, abducting Hannah and spiriting her to an isolated hideaway. who will seduce the virgin and keep her for his own. Buy Their Virgin Captive (Masters of Menage) online. The oil executives know they must give her time to get to know them before she can choose one. Their Virgin Captive (Masters of Menage) by Shayla Black,Lexi Blake,Serena Daniels. Brothers Gavin, Slade, and Dex fall hard for Gavin's new secretary, beautiful Hannah Craig. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re also introduced to the city patrician Lord Vetinari, along with a whole host of visiting characters from other story arcs in the series. These books all center around The City Watch, a police force in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The whole Discworld series can be broken down into the following collections: 1st. Most of the books in the series also form part of a subseries or collection that share the same theme or character arc. The list above is the traditional reading order, but many diehard fans of Pratchett’s work recommend that new readers began their Discworld journey with a collection. The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents.Here’s the full list of Discworld books in the order they were first published: Reading them in chronological order this way means you can be sure you don’t miss a thing plus, it takes the guesswork out of which book to read next. The first book, The Color of Magic, was published in 1983, and the final book, The Sheperd’s Crown, was published in 2015, the same year the author sadly passed away. Many, if not most people, like to approach these books in the order they were written. ![]() ![]() ![]() Students may not wish to be active participants in class discussions and this should be respected. ![]() Some of the ideas and themes explored in Young Dark Emu, such as frontier conflict, may be distressing or challenging for some students.
![]() Literary elements at work in the story: Uchida uses a simple, descriptive style, that allows a child’s feelings to show through without becoming sentimental. As time passes, though, she begins to realize that she does not need the bracelet to remember her friend. At first she is upset as the bracelet was the only link she had with her friend. ![]() When Emi arrives in Montana, she realizes she has lost the bracelet. Emi promises to always wear it to remember her friend. ![]() While they are packing, Emi’s best friend Laurie comes to say goodbye and gives her a gold bracelet. They are considered possible traitors or spies. ![]() In many cases, as in Emi’s, those relatives came one or two generations before this and they are now citizens of the United States, but that does not matter. Why? Because their relatives came from Japan. Summary: During World War II, Second grader Emi is one of thousands told they must give up everything and move to an internment camp. ![]() ![]() John tries to approach him, but slips and falls into the sea. He is visited by Melmoth in a dream, and later sees Melmoth laughing at a shipwreck. Melmoth visits him there, and offers to free him, but Stanton refuses and escapes.įollowing his uncle's wish, John burns the Melmoth portrait. Stanton's search for Melmoth is deemed to be madness and he is sent to a madhouse. At his uncle's funeral, John is told an old family story about a stranger called Stanton, who arrived looking for "Melmoth the Traveller" decades earlier.Ī manuscript left by Stanton describes his first finding Melmoth laughing at the sight of two lovers who have been struck by lightning, and hearing of a wedding at which Melmoth was an uninvited guest: the bride died and the bridegroom went mad. He finds a portrait of a mysterious ancestor called "Melmoth" the portrait is dated 1646. John Melmoth, a student in Dublin, visits his dying uncle. The novel offers social commentary on early-19th-century England, and denounces Roman Catholicism in favour of the virtues of Protestantism. ![]() ![]() The novel is composed of a series of nested stories-within-stories, gradually revealing the story of Melmoth's life. The novel's titular character is a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, and searches the world for someone who will take over the pact for him, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew. Melmoth the Wanderer is an 1820 Gothic novel by Irish playwright, novelist and clergyman Charles Maturin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cat is entranced by Henry and his charming sister Eleanor, but she can’t help wondering if everything about them is as perfect as it seems. And then there’s the handsome Henry Tilney, an up-and-coming lawyer whose family home is the beautiful and forbidding Northanger Abbey. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a sunny personality, tickets every night and a few key wardrobe additions courtesy of Susie Allen, Cat quickly begins to take Edinburgh by storm and is taken into the bosom of the Thorpe family, particularly by eldest daughter Bella. So imagine her delight when the Allens, neighbors and friends of her parents, invite her to attend the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh as their guest. A homeschooled minister’s daughter in the quaint, sheltered Piddle Valley in Dorset, she loses herself in novels and is sure there is a glamorous adventure awaiting her beyond the valley’s narrow horizon. In Northanger Abbey, she delivers her own, witty, updated take on Austen’s classic novel about a young woman whose visit to the stately home of a well-to-do acquaintance stirs her most macabre imaginings, with an extra frisson of suspense that only McDermid could provide.Ĭat Morland is ready to grow up. Internationally best-selling crime writer Val McDermid has riveted millions of readers worldwide with her acutely suspenseful, psychologically complex, seamlessly plotted thrillers. ![]() ![]() Tesla recalls his earliest inventions (such as a delightfully bizarre motor powered by live beetles), waxes lyrical on the "exquisite enjoyment" of invention, tells how he was inspired to create his revolutionary AC induction motor by a passage from Goethe's Faust, and dreams in 1916 of creating a superweapon so terrible that it would immediately end the carnage of the first world war. What Hunt rightly describes as the "beautiful and strange" essays in this collection were written between 18. He pioneered alternating current power transmission and, as the novelist Samantha Hunt says in her wonderfully partisan and illuminating introduction, it was Tesla not Marconi who invented radio. His remarkable ability to visualise inventions soon made him famous. Born in Croatia in 1856, he emigrated to the United States in his 20s. ![]() A t the beginning of the 20th century, Tesla was for most Americans the embodiment of the inventor as genius. ![]() |