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Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and...

Brad Steiger

Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse

Featuring 30 chilling stories of reallife zombie encounters, this comprehensive and unsettling study draws upon traditions found throughout the world to dispel common depictions of zombies as lurching, flesheating automatons made popular by countless movies and books. This fascinating collection includes the stories of the Devil Baby of Bourbon Street, a monstrous creature complete with horns and tail that still lurks in the shadows of the Big Easy; Black Mama Courteaux and the great zombie war,...

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Brad Steiger

Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and C...

Brad Steiger

Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and Creatures from the Darkside

A chilling chronicle of the often ignored history of vampirism as it has surfaced repeatedly in news articles, historical accounts, and first person interviews, this shocking account of occultist rituals and the inhuman forces that influence them shines a light on the horrifying truth. Revealing that real vampires are not immortal, do not have fangs or sleep in coffins, and have no fear of sunlight or crucifixes, the examination dispels many myths but also confirms the truth behind several...

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Brad Steiger

Rakshasa’s Ring

Vishakha-datta

Rakshasa’s Ring

The aristocrat who wrote this vigorous political play eschewed sentimentality in favor of realistic characterization and forceful action. It is 316 BCE, one year after Chandra·gupta Maurya, aided by his subtle minister Chánakya, has seized the kingdom of Mágadha from the last king of the Nanda dynasty. Rákshasa, Nanda’s incorruptible minister, flees abroad and plots his vengeance, while Chánakya seeks to win him over to honor Chandra·gupta...

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Vishakha-datta

Poupées Sexuelles: Un Mal Ou Un Bie...

Gabriel Agbo

Poupées Sexuelles: Un Mal Ou Un Bien?

Les vendeurs de gadgets sexuels engrangent des milliards de dollars chaque année. Leurs produits sont très diversifiés et disponibles aujourd’hui partout dans le monde. Maintenant l’on a l’impression que ce commerce de gadgets de stimulation et satisfaction artificielles ou technologiques de désirs sexuels est très en vogue. Les célibataires, mariés, vieux, jeunes fréquentent tous aujourd’hui les magasins de gadgets sexuels et les confections deviennent de plus en plus attrayantes et...

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Gabriel Agbo

Postmodern Fairy Tales

Cristina Bacchilega

Postmodern Fairy Tales

Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories: «Snow White,» «Little Red Riding Hood,» «Beauty and the Beast,» and «Bluebeard.» Bacchilega traces the oral sources of each tale, offers a provocative interpretation of contemporary versions by Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme,...

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Cristina Bacchilega

Paul: The Lost Epistles

Robert M. Price

Paul: The Lost Epistles

Have you ever wondered what the Apostle Paul might have said about some vital topic not mentioned in his letters? Have you wished he had clarified his views on this or that? Suppose someone discovered a cache of "new" Pauline epistles–how exciting it would be!<br><br>Join New Testament scholar Robert M. Price as he presents a new collection of fourteen hitherto-unknown letters of Paul, plus a visionary apocalypse. Scholars will discover here an imaginative...

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Robert M. Price

Pandemonium and Parade

Michael Dylan Foster

Pandemonium and Parade

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Michael Dylan Foster

Ovid's Erotic Poems

Ovid

Ovid's Erotic Poems

The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses . But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adultery—a playful parody of the earnest erotic poetry traditions established by his literary ancestors. The Amores , Ovid's first completed book of poetry, explores the conventional mode of erotic elegy with some subversive and...

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Ovid

Olonkho

P. A. Oyunsky

Olonkho

Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic that consists of many long legends – one of the longest being ‘Nurgun Botur the Swift’ consisting of some 36,000 lines of verse, published here. Like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Finnish Kalevala, the Buryat Geser, and the Kirghiz Manas, the Yakut Olonkho is an epic of a very ancient origin dating back to the period – possibly as early as the eighth or ninth centuries – when the ancestors of the present-day Yakut peoples lived on...

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