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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

The Monster Book

Nick Redfern

The Monster Book

Monsters have been spotted everywhere, not just hiding under a child’s bed, lurking in the closet, or springing forth from folkloric tales. Exploring the history, mythology, pop culture, and the world of the supernatural, The Monster Book: Creatures, Beasts, and Fiends of Nature is a comprehensive resource of the monster menagerie from around the world. Examining the lore and legends, as well as the first-person accounts of bizarre freaks of nature and spine-tingling paranormal...

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Nick Redfern

The Zombie Book

Nick Redfern

The Zombie Book

Rampaging, driven, killing machines. Soulless and dead. Infected and infectious. Zombies. The epidemic of the living dead is stronger than ever in today’s pop-culture, but long before exotic viruses, biological warfare, and sinister military experiments brought the dead back to life in our cinemas and on our television screens, there were the dark spells and incantations of the ancient Egyptians, the Sumerians, and the Babylonians. Blending the historical with the modern, the...

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Nick Redfern

Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives...

Aryashura

Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives (Volume 1)

The Garland of Past Lives is a collection of thirty four stories depicting the miraculous deeds performed by the Buddha in his previous rebirths. Composed in the fourth century C.E. by the Buddhist monk Aryashura, the text’s accomplished artistry led Indian aesthetic theorists to praise its elegant mixture of verse and prose. The twenty stories in this first volume deal primarily with the virtues of giving and morality. Ascetics sacrifice their lives for hungry tigers, kings open their veins...

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Aryashura

The Lady of the Jewel Necklace & Th...

Harsha

The Lady of the Jewel Necklace & The Lady who Shows her Love

King Harsha, who reigned over the kingdom of Kanauj from 606 to 647 CE, composed two Sanskrit plays about the mythical figures of King Udayana, his queen, Vásava·datta, and two of his co-wives. The plays abound in mistaken identities, both political and erotic. The characters masquerade as one another and, occasionally, as themselves, and each play refers simultaneously to itself and to the other.Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC FoundationFor more on this...

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Garland of the Buddha's Past Lives...

Aryashura

Garland of the Buddha's Past Lives (Volume 2)

In this second volume of the Garland of Past Lives , Aryashura applies his elegant literary skill toward composing fourteen further stories that depict the Buddha’s quest for enlightenment in his former lives. Here the perfection of forbearance becomes the dominant theme, as the future Buddha suffers mutilations from the wicked and sacrifices himself for those he seeks to save. Friendship, too, takes on central significance, with greed leading to treachery and enemies transformed into friends...

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Aryashura

Seven Hundred Elegant Verses

Govardhana

Seven Hundred Elegant Verses

When Go·várdhana composed his "Seven Hundred Elegant Verses" in Sanskrit in the twelfth century CE, the title suggested that this was a response to the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributed to King Hala, composed almost a thousand years earlier. Both sets of poems were composed in the arya metre. Besides being the name of a metre, in Sanskrit arya means a noble or elegant lady, and Go·várdhana wished to...

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Govardhana

The Rise of Wisdom Moon

Krishna mishra

The Rise of Wisdom Moon

The Rise of Wisdom Moon was composed during the mid-eleventh century by Krishna mishra, an otherwise unknown poet in the service of the Chandella dynasty, whose cultural and religious capital was Khajuraho. The early popularity of Krishna mishra’s work led to its frequent translation into the vernaculars of both North and South India, and even Persian as well. Famed as providing the enduring model of the allegorical play for all subsequent Sanskrit literature, The Rise of Wisdom Moon offers a...

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Gita Govinda

Jayadeva

Gita Govinda

Jayadeva’s Gitagovínda is a lyrical account of the illicit springtime love affair of Krishna and Radha, a god and goddess manifesting on earth as a cowherd and milkmaid for the sake of relishing the sweet miseries and rapturous delights of erotic love. The narrative framing their bucolic songs was composed under royal patronage in northeastern India in the twelfth century. It was to be performed for connoisseurs of poetry and the erotic arts, for aesthetes and voluptuaries who, while sensually...

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Jayadeva

Legend-Tripping Online

Michael Kinsella

Legend-Tripping Online

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Michael Kinsella

Of ye Olde Englisch Langage and Tex...

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Of ye Olde Englisch Langage and Textes: New Perspectives on Old and Middle English Language and Literature

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Tales of the Neighborhood

Galit Hasan-Rokem

Tales of the Neighborhood

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Galit Hasan-Rokem

Speak, Bird, Speak Again

Ibrahim Muhawi

Speak, Bird, Speak Again

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Ibrahim Muhawi

Pandemonium and Parade

Michael Dylan Foster

Pandemonium and Parade

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Michael Dylan Foster

Balinese Dance, Drama & Music

I Wayan Dibia

Balinese Dance, Drama & Music

Bali has long been known for its deep spirituality and extraordinary artistic heritage. The dances, dramas, puppetry and music of Bali are more than icons for the island; they are part and parcel of life—as expressions of devotion to the gods, as entertainment, and as a way of instilling cultural values on each generation. Balinese Dance, Drama & Music is a lavishly illustrated introduction to Bali's celebrated temple orchestra, the gamelan, to its ancient shadow puppet...

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I Wayan Dibia

Spookiest Stories Ever

Roberta Simpson Brown

Spookiest Stories Ever

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Roberta Simpson Brown

The Hero and the Perennial Journey...

Susan Mackey-Kallis

The Hero and the Perennial Journey Home in American Film

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Susan Mackey-Kallis

Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics...

Cristina Bacchilega

Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place

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Cristina Bacchilega

Homo Narrans

John D. Niles

Homo Narrans

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John D. Niles

From Trickster to Badman

John W. Roberts

From Trickster to Badman

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John W. Roberts

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

Epischer Renaut alias heiliger Rein...

Gustav Adolf Beckmann

Epischer Renaut alias heiliger Reinoldus im Lichte einer Radiocarbon-Datierung

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Gustav Adolf Beckmann

Selections from Ystorya Bown o Hamt...

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Selections from Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn

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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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P. A. Oyunsky

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