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Tarzan. Odysseus. Zorro. Your favorite characters come back to life in new and exciting escapades in this must-have anthology.
In this inventive collection, a stellar cast of writers uses classic adventure tales as a launch pad for an eclectic mix of prequels, alternate universes, spin-offs, and total reboots. Imagine Ahab is shipwrecked on an island of cannibals, or Mr. Hyde tells his side of the story, or the scarecrow from Oz struggles with the...
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 5
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Joachim Knychala, the Polish serial killer who earned the ghoulish nickname `Frankenstein', attacked his victims with an axe. He brutally murdered 5 women and attempted another 7 over 8 grisly years.
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16 classic stories reimagined: Latinx characters take center stage
Relit features sixteen original stories by award-winning and bestselling Latinx YA authors that revamp classics, myths, and fairy tales to center the multilayered Latinx experience through fantasy, science fiction, and a dash of horror.
Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby...
Relit features sixteen original stories by award-winning and bestselling Latinx YA authors that revamp classics, myths, and fairy tales to center the multilayered Latinx experience through fantasy, science fiction, and a dash of horror.
Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby...
6) Random Glory
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Richard Random is unaware that he is a direct descendant of Frankenstein's monster, and heir to all of Doctor Frankenstein's land. While trying to live the American dream, he falls in love with the stunning veterinarian, Doctor Mary Jane. With their friends in tow, they fight for their lives against a motley crew of hired assassins. Duke Cornelius Magnus believed himself to be the owner of the land and the attached university until a startling article...
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This Unique Compilation Traces Bud Abbott & Lou Costello's Starring Roles In Feature Films Thru Rare Coming Attractions Trailers, Raucous Bloopers, & Hilarious Movie Routines. Highlights From 37 Films Are Covered. From Their Appearance In One Night In The Tropics, To Starring Roles In Buck Privates Thru Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein & Their Final Film Release Of World Of Abbott & Costello.
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Many rarely seen Goofs & Outtakes from vintage TV & movies featuring: Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein, Happy Days, Bonanza, MASH, Laverne & Shirley, Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, Don Adams, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, Dick Van Dyke Show, Kraft Music Hall, Red Skelton Show, etc. Also, classic stars like Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, James Cagney, James Stewart, & more.
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Horror Bulletin Monthly April 2024 (#31) The newest issue of the Horror Bulletin Monthly includes reviews of everything we reviewed last month-- a film each day! This time, we had "Easter Rabbits" for a theme week, watching some fun killer rabbit films. We also took a Quick Look at several of Bela Lugosi's final films, along with the comedic "Ed Wood," which featured Bela-- sorta. As always, we looked at a variety of old and new films. Each of the...
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This book analyses Mexican Transnational Trafficking Organisations (MTTOs) organised crime enterprises in Belize with specific emphasis on human smuggling and the joint organised crime enterprises with politicians and public servants. The driving discourse of the book insists that the failure of the Belizean state to resist the assault of transnational organised crime lies in the failure of its imported and imposed Westminster model of government...
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A wondrous and haunting deep-dive into landscape and culture.
"Countless are they, the people who for one reason or another – or for no reason at all – have met their fate on the beach."
This fascinating essay collection, translated from Swedish, walks global shores, looks to the sea and transcends the everyday. Beaches have shadows. They are places of tragedy that look upon the unfathomable abyss of the ocean.
Per Högselius skirts our history,...
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What happens when writers vacation together... And challenge each other to write ghost stories? On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and Lord Byron undertook a challenge that would change history and create the gothic genre. The result is three chilling tales of monsters, vampires, and murder. Lord Byron's A Fragment is of historical importance as it is one of the very first vampire stories. Does it stand the...
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Young Quinn and Agatha are caught between immortal factions, and Quinn must face the truth about all of them--and his own lineage--if he is to save his own life, Agatha's, and indeed, all of Europe.Christmas Eve, 1848. Young Quinn Campbell and his best friend Agatha have been kidnapped. Their captor, Dmitriy Gavrilov, is cruel, ruthless--and a vampire. Thus begins a treacherous journey through ice-locked Europe, toward a castle in the depths of Romania,...
15) Severed Squadron
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Even badass vigilantes need mechanics. Joka Bunear is just a lowly grease monkey in a gang full of bigger and stronger alien vigilantes. Not to mention a human. To level the playing field, she invents a spacesuit and is finally invited on a field mission … as a joke. After the mission is sabotaged and the gang goes into hiding, Joka intercepts a message meant for her boss regarding a kidnapped scientist, but the leader refuses to pursue the lead....
16) Frankenlouse
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A fourteen-year-old boy invents a comic-book fantasy world ruled by a book-dwelling insect named Frankenlouse I am called Nick. I was fourteen the year of this story, the year that changed my life . . . Nick Reber is a cadet with cartoonist dreams. Nick's father, a by-the-books control freak, believes his son's creative aspirations are a waste of time. As commanding officer of Blister Military Academy, he makes Nick march in step-or else. Nick...
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The story of Warhol's greatest superstar The renowned photographer Francesco Scavullo has called Joe Dallesandro "one of the ten most photogenic men in the world." Springing to fame at the beginning of the sexual revolution in films such as Flesh, Trash, and Heat, Dallesandro, with the help of his mentor, Paul Morrissey, and pop artist Andy Warhol, became a male sex symbol in the film world unlike any before him. His casual nakedness and characteristic...
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"A modern-day Gaslight"
The Blue Prussian is a spellbinding story told by Blake O'Brien, a beautiful, young executive with a globetrotting career. Blake returns to her native Manhattan from San Francisco after escaping-or so she thinks-her marriage to a dashing man who turned out to be a prince of darkness. She had been hoping for a fresh start but learns that she has been poisoned with thallium-a deadly neurotoxin referred to as the poisoner's...