![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Autocannibalism: Behind the cult in Ritual published as Feast in the USA.Artifact of Doom: The titular Heirloom and Mirror.Antagonist Title: Tengu, referring to the evil demon.Abandoned Hospital: Setting for Walkers. ![]() Broken Angels (also published as Voice of an Angel) (2012).White Bones (also published as Katie Maguire and A Terrible Beauty) (2003).The Painted Man (also published as Death Mask) (2008).Touchy and Feely (based on the Beltway snipers) (2005).Spirit Jump (short story collected in anthology Faces of Fear) (1996).The Djinn (1977) note Featuring Harry Erskine from The Manitou, but no actual Manitou.Significant works by this author include: Quite possibly as a spin-off of this career, he wrote hack sex comedies and several volumes of sex manuals, something he has cheerfully never tried to disguise or conceal as an embarrassing reminder of what he did to earn a living before his literary career really took off. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he edited the UK editions of men's magazines Penthouse and Playboy. Graham Masterton, born in 1946 in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a prolific writer in several genres who is most famous for his voluminous output of horror stories. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Miranda gets her opportunity when her mother receives a letter from their distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryn ( Vincent Price), a wealthy patroon in Hudson, New York. Raised in 1844 Greenwich, Connecticut by her strait-laced low church parents, Ephraim ( Walter Huston) and Abigail ( Anne Revere), Miranda Wells ( Gene Tierney) is a farm girl who often daydreams of a more romantic and luxurious life outside the farm. The film stars Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, and Vincent Price. The music score was by Alfred Newman, and the cinematography by Arthur C. Zanuck and Ernst Lubitsch (uncredited), from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the novel Dragonwyck by Anya Seton. Dragonwyck is a 1946 American period drama film made by Twentieth Century-Fox. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How had they managed to sing like Germans? Often dubbed “negroes with white souls,” their performance style, elocution, and diction transformed them in their audiences’ minds from black entertainers into Germans with intimate knowledge of the most cherished works of the Austro-German musical canon. It focuses on African American performers in Germany and Austria in the twentieth century such as Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, and Roland Hayes who learned the music of Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, and others. ![]() This paper explores the ever-present tension between the transcendental powers of German art music and the (trans)national conversations that developed about who could perform it. At once for all and also authentically German, the Austro-German musical canon has served as a vehicle for national, racial, and gendered transformations. But the music of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms is also regional and local, an audible expression of the German sense of self. ![]() Western art music in particular has a reputation for transporting the listener to another realm, transcending national boundaries, and transforming social formations. If music is a universal language it has a strong German accent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was born and raised in Idaho and currently lives in New York City. You can also check out some more on these lists:Īmanda Steele is a queer poet and writer with a degree in Creative Writing and Gender Studies from Utah Valley University. ![]() You’ll be sure to find something you love that makes you laugh or makes you cry, or maybe both. The works on this list are only the start of all of the exciting, diverse books and art by queer creators being released this year. The poems in this collection are described as being a mix of autobiographical to meditative, and you can get reading when the collection comes out in April. This collection of poems is part-memoir and covers the author’s experience with starting gender transition, using the inauguration of the current administration as a timeline and paralleling device. Nightboat Books 10} The Black Condition ft. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Collins demonstrates, citing the novel, that Stoker’s Dracula was not the same figure as the historical Wallachian princes, but rather a distinctly fictitious descendant of the “Dracula dynasty” (Collins). Andrew William Collins notes the influence of the “Dracula dynasty” in Stoker’s work, beginning with Vlad II Dracul and followed by his son Vlad Tepes II, infamously known as the Impaler. There is no doubt that the inspiration for Stoker’s Dracula was the fifteenth-century line of Wallachian princes. His infamous vampire has spawned numerous adaptations and has influenced a litany of vampiric reimaginings in literature, film, and popular culture throughout the twentieth and twenty first centuries. ![]() There is arguably no more iconic figure to come out of nineteenth-century England than Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula, the titular character of the Gothic epistolary novel, Dracula (1897). Cover of the first edition of Stoker’s Dracula, courtesy of the British Library ![]() ![]() Thesis: Horror’s target audience, adolescent males, are able to identify with a female character (at least for most of the film) because horror operates partly through a one-sex system in which gender is determined by behavior rather than anatomy. In this book, Clover defines and explores the role of the surviving female character and labels her the “final girl.” For my oral exam, I am focusing on three major chapters. ![]() ![]() You can’t claim to study slasher films (or horror films more generally) without first reading Carol Clover’s field-defining text Men, Women, and Chainsaws (1992). ![]() ![]() ![]() Witness the Dragons’ final battle for absolute sovereignty in Ian McDonald’s heart-stopping finale to the Luna trilogy. The only person who can stop him is a brilliant lunar lawyer, his sister, Ariel. Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Cortas rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of the Moon. ![]() Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain - marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations. In the meantime, here’s the synopsis:Ī hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons - five families that control the Moon’s leading industrial companies. Tor Books will publish the novel in North America, in July 2018. ![]() The third novel in Ian McDonald‘s critically-acclaimed Luna trilogy has a US cover: Moon Rising! And, as with the first two covers, it’s fantastic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘It was the hypocrisy of it that was so difficult,’ she says. But to Christina, the public image was a gilded lie. She lived in a sprawling house in Brentwood, Los Angeles and used her wealth to adopt and raise four children, including Christina, an act much lauded in extensive magazine spreads about her happy family life. ![]() Over a career spanning five decades, she starred alongside Clark Gable in Possessed, Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and won a 1945 Best Actress Academy Award for the title role in Mildred Pierce. She was one of the original studio ingenues, an actress who overcame an impoverished childhood to become one of the highest-paid women in the business. To everyone else she was simply Joan Crawford, Hollywood movie star.Īt the height of her fame in the 1940s, Crawford had a considerable reputation to uphold. ![]() She was not the tyrannical harpy who apparently let rip behind closed doors. She was not the alcoholic, given to occasional bursts of sporadic violence. ![]() To the wider public, Christina’s mother was not the abusive parent, prone to uncontrolled bouts of fury. It was a side of her mother that no one else ever saw. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has on a plaid dress (explain what plaid is).She has on long white and red striped socks.She has on a black pointed hat that is slightly scrunched.(pause and let children draw after each sentence) (Make sure the students cannot see the illustrations) I will NOT show you the illustrations until our drawings are done. Before we read, I am going to tell you what the witch looks like and you draw what you think she will look like. We are going to be reading a story about a witch. The students are given a large white sheet of paper with a pre-glued skin toned oval on it. Witch Themed Listening Comprehension Activity At one school, a team of first grade teachers rotates the book between classrooms as they only have one copy and all the children have a chance to create their witch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Heart of Thorns: “A fantastical feminist fairy tale. ![]() A thoughtful examination of agency, female empowerment, and the history of magic.” - Kirkus Reviews Praise for Tears of Frost: “Magic and sisterhood intertwine in the high-stakes sequel to Heart of Thorns. But when they hear rumors of a misty island that promises to erase all pain, they suddenly find themselves with an answer-if they are willing to pay the cost. ![]() Pilar, terrified of being broken, once again seeks comfort in her fists. Mia’s sensations are creeping back, and with them, a searing grief. After losing Angie, Mia and Pilar journey to the glass kingdom to seek help, though soon their fragile bonds of sisterhood begin to fray. Volcanoes erupt, glaciers collapse, and cities sink into the western sands. He vows to destroy Mia, Pilar, and Angelyne if they oppose him-even if he must use his newfound magic to set the world aflame.Īcross the four kingdoms, the elements have been tipped askew. Prince Quin has returned to the river kingdom, ready to spearhead a rebellion and reclaim the throne. This fiercely feminist YA series is a must-read for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Laini Taylor! The shattering conclusion to Bree Barton’s Heart of Thorns trilogy challenges why we grieve, whom we love-and how to mend a broken heart. ![]() |
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