Early stories such as “The Outsider,” “The Music of Erich Zann,” “Herbert West–Reanimator,” and “The Lurking Fear” demonstrate Lovecraft’s uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and non-human. In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of Lovecraft’s fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work. Lovecraft adapted the conventions of horror stories and science fiction to express an intensely personal vision, cosmic in its ramifications and fearsome in its shuddering view of human destiny. A twentieth-century successor to Edgar Allan Poe as the master of “weird fiction,” Howard Phillips Lovecraft once wrote, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” In the novellas and stories he published in such pulp magazines as Weird Tales and Astounding Stories-and in the work that remained unpublished until after his death, including some of his best writing-H.
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Alec and Magnus have sex, but it's not described beyond passionate kissing and undressing. They sustain injuries that are magically healed, and Magnus gets a magical knife to the chest that gives him power but could eventually kill him. Here they have to leave little Max behind to fight demons in Shanghai, China, and in a demon realm with their Shadowhunter friends Clary, Jace, Simon, and Isabelle. Readers of the main series will probably remember when Alec and Magnus became parents. This series features the gay couple Alec (a Shadowhunter) and Magnus (a warlock), who are adoptive parents to a baby warlock in this book. It's part of Cassandra Clare's vast Shadowhunters universe, co-authored by Wesley Chu. Parents need to know that The Lost Book of the White is the second book in the spin-off series The Eldest Curses. In another flashback scene, Magnus smokes a pipe.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. 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The book’s title refers to a dance performed when the hour is late enough and the people, gathered at the local watering hole, find themselves sufficiently sozzled. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for scraps.” (This repetition, with its gradual slathering of metaphoric detail, characterizes Krasznahorkai’s style.) They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. Some mistake must have been made things can’t be as bad as they seem. “If they read the papers properly,” one character says, “they would know that there is a real crisis out there.”īut there is also a shared belief that things aren’t as they appear. They see visions and hear bells they can’t place. People speak ominously, if vaguely, about what lies ahead. Like the surrounding buildings, they are rife with rot.Īs in much of Krasznahorkai’s work, a sense of hallucinatory conspiracy is in the air. The local estate has been closed, its animals hocked, its mill shut down. “Satantango,” the latest novel by the Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai to be translated into English, takes place over a few rain-sodden days in a dying hamlet. Newly arrived from San Francisco, Hu Chen is shy, thoughtful and a perfect gentleman, so different from Stephen’s usual type that the attraction between them catches both of them by surprise.Īs their flirtation blooms into a hot summer fling, Stephen is forced to confront his painful past, and face the frightening possibility that it has left him too broken to learn how to love a good man. Then one day he walks into the local magic store and meets the owner’s nephew. Violent drunks, thieves, liars, cheats – he’s had them all and had his heart broken so many times that he’s decided it’s easier to remain single, even if some days the loneliness is unbearable. Sweet, helpful, sympathetic – both in and out of drag Stephen Walsh (aka Helena Montana) plays Disney princess to his best friend Bunny’s snarling Ursula, the Blanche to his Baby Jane.īut like so many Disney princesses, Stephen has dark origins. But when anti-German sentiments aroused by World War I fed the flames of the temperance movement (one activist even declared that “the worst of all our German enemies are Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, and Miller”), Prohibition was the result. Just fifty years later, the American-style lager beer they invented was the nation’s most popular beverage-and brewing was the nation’s fifth-largest industry, ruled over by fabulously wealthy titans Frederick Pabst and Adolphus Busch. When a wave of German immigrants arrived in the middle of the nineteenth century, they promptly set about re-creating the pleasures of the biergartens they had left behind. Beer might seem as American as baseball, but that has not always been true: Rum and whiskey were the drinks of choice in the 1840s, with only a few breweries making heavy, yeasty English ale. Believe me, Iko-my adviser and public relations representative-has already started planning our celebratory ball for when this pandemic is over.” We’ll see you back on Earth as soon as we can. Words that she’d probably started to say in her sleep by now. “Wash your hands frequently,” said Cinder, reciting the words she’d said at the end of each of these press conferences. “For now,” Kai continued, “Lunar Ambassador Linh Cinder and I encourage you to continue using the protocols our medical experts have recommended to keep yourself, your family, and our society as safe as possible.” She often wondered if she would ever be as comfortable in front of the cameras, despite how Kai and so much of her own royal staff persisted in telling her that she was doing great. Still, it never ceased to make Cinder’s heart swell, just a little, to see him in his element. He’d been making public addresses to the world for years and had been in the media’s eye long before that. Fuacino,” said Kai, his expression serious yet calm as he looked into the netscreen. “In just a few minutes you’ll be hearing from Earthen Union’s lead medical researcher, Dr. The team of Jesuit priests and scientists had left in 2021. God may know that a sparrow falls, but the sparrow falls just the same. He has doubts about what it all means and what it says about God and his plan. But his hold on it is never quite secure. As his hands become better able to grasp a coffee mug, he becomes better able to grab onto the truth of what happened to him. He gives official testimony and reports to his superior, but he’s reluctant, fearful, haunted, broken. He shares with the priests who are taking care of him, part confessor and part jury. In The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell tells Emilio’s story as he recovers it, gradually. Reports from the UN consortium that followed the Jesuit team have led the world to consider Emilio not just a failure but a pariah. His hands have been surgically mutilated much of the skin of his palms has been removed, giving his fingers an elongated appearance and making it impossible for him to use his hands. He is mentally and physically traumatized. Father Emilio Sandoz has just returned to Earth, the lone survivor of a mission to Alpha Centauri to find the aliens whose music was the first clear evidence of life on another planet. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960’s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. ‘Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.’ – Michael Löwyįirst published in 1967, Guy Debord’s stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. ‘Never before has Debord’s work seemed quite as relevant as it does now’ – The Guardian ‘The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible…’ – The New Yorker It is a secret that has the entire population completely under the control of a madman and his army of followers, a secret that is about to come storming through the fence to wipe out this last, fragile remnant of humanity No one is allowed to leave even asking questions can get you killed.īut Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. This is also the first book I borrowed from the Kindle Unlimited store as I won a free subscription to it (thanks MacDonald’s!) and I wanted to see what the fuss was about. I wasn’t wrong to be fair, I did manage to read it quite quickly but I also had to take some breaks whilst reading it. It’s been a while since I read the previous 2 books but as I was going on holiday thought it would be a perfect quick read for the airport and the plane. This book forms the finale of the Wayward Pines series. |