For years, they have been the architects of your worst nightmares...Haunted house attractions are vessels that contain those we call "Haunters" who bring our worst nightmares to life. What drives them to scare folks? Is it the idea they get hearts beating and blood pumping, or is it another way to satisfy an itch for horror and the macabre? Discover interviews with seasoned Haunters that give insight into why they embrace the dark and love to scare-and the ghosts t...

Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research represents an extraordinary event in the long history of textuality. More or less all at once, the corpus has emerged as a major genre of cultural and scientific knowledge. In Literary Mathematics, Michael Gavin grapples with this development, describing how quantitative methods for the study of textual data offer powerful too...

Early literary criticism was undisciplined. Unlike the staid essays and monographs of later academic scholarship, English criticism first appeared in the contentious world of the London theater: dramatists and other poets argued about their craft in contending prefaces and dedications, and their disputes spilled into the public sphere in pamphlet wars, mock epics, lampoons, and even novels. Across these forms, criticism was personal, political, and unconcerned with analysis for its own sak...

Relive a childhood favorite as a boy genius comes to terms with his ever more complicated existence. After meeting an unlikely friend and being given the first problem he can not solve, he sets on a journey to find the answer and finds a life he never expected. Trips through time and a shadow that writes, this is a twist on a tale that we all know and love.

Benji Lawrence and Joe Anderson hate the world. They both have lost loved ones and are now being forced into a grief support group to deal with their issues. Opposites may attract, but like magnets, they also can repel, in a BIG way.No rock stars in this Near Miss Series Prequel, but this sweet MM stand-alone follows their journey as they learn to heal and maybe also to love again.CONTENT WARNINGThis story includes elements that might not be suitable for some readers. ...

SECOND in a new paranormal mystery series!When Tess Callahan, new owner of Dead End Pawn, meets her grandmother the banshee, life is about to get complicated. When Tess’s partner Jack Shepherd, tiger shapeshifter and P.I., gets involved to help them investigate a banshee-kidnapping spree, life is about to get deadly. Because nothing is ever simple in Dead End, Florida, and sometimes it takes a tiger’s eye to see the truth.This novel is a paranormal mystery ...

This complete edition of the Holy Synod Version of the Russian Bible was designed for optimal navigation on Kobo and other electronic devices. It has both book and chapter navigation links. In just a few clicks, you can be reading any verse in the Bible.The Table of Contents lists all books of the Old and New Testaments, and Deuterocanonical literature. Just select the book you want to read and to go directly to it. Once you opened the book, you can select the chapter you want in j...

होरीराम ने दोनों बैलों को सानी-पानी दे कर अपनी स्त्री धनिया से कहा - गोबर को ऊख गोड़ने भेज देना। मैं न जाने कब लौटूँ। जरा मेरी लाठी दे दे। धनिया के दोनों हाथ गोबर से भरे थे। उपले पाथ कर आई थी। बोली - अरे, कुछ रस-पानी तो कर लो। ऐसी जल्दी क्या है? होरी ने अपने झुर्रियों से भरे हुए माथे को सिकोड़ कर कहा - तुझे रस-पानी की पड़ी है, मुझे यह चिंता है कि अबेर हो गई तो मालिक से भेंट न होगी। असनान-पूजा करने लगेंगे, तो घंटों बैठे बीत जायगा। 'इसी से तो कहती हूँ, कुछ जलपान कर लो और आज न जाओगे तो कौन हर...

『──秀吉が最も怖れた人物は言うまでもなく家康だ。その貫禄は天下万人の認めるところ、天下万人以上に秀吉自身が認めていたが、その次に黒田如水を怖れていた。──』  　2014年大河ドラマの主人公「黒田官兵衛」  　その官兵衛を、昭和の文豪「坂口安吾」が描きあげた傑作、「二流の人」。  　官兵衛の主人、豊臣秀吉。  　天下の恋敵、徳川家康。  　明日の老練家、石田三成。  　黒田如水（官兵衛）と、その時代を生きた男たちを描く時代小説。  『──如水は律義であるけれども、天衣無縫の律義でなかった。律義という天然の砦がなければ支えることの不可能な身に余る野望の化け者だ。──』  　戦国時代の終焉から、江戸時代の幕開けまで、如水の戦いに生きた、天下を傍目に見ていた時間を感じられる作品。  　史実と言われる官兵衛と、安吾が描く如水、あなたはどちらを信じますか。 ...

A young woman finds herself is a precarious situation after a night that is sure to haunt her. During a silent, tear filled ride home with her friend, she finds that the earlier events of the night are nothing compared to what she is about to encounter.

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