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Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play
by Tennessee WilliamsThis late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The late Tennessee Williams's Clothes for a Summer Hotelmade its New York debut in 1980. Here Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, often seen as symbols of the doomed youth of the jazz age, become two halves of a single creative psyche, each part alternately feeding and then devouring the other. Set in Highland Hospital near Asheville, North Carolina, where Zelda spent her last confinement, this "ghost play" begins several years after Scott's death of a heart attack in California. But the past is "still always present" in Zelda, and Williams's constant shifting of chronology and mixing of remembrance with ghostly re-enactment suggest that our real intimacy is with the shadow characters of our own minds. As Williams said in the Author's Note to the Broadway production: "Our reason for taking extraordinary license with time and place is that in an asylum and on its grounds liberties of this kind are quite prevalent: and also these liberties allow us to explore in more depth what we believe is truth of character." Williams poses the inevitable, unanswerable questions: Did Scott prevent Zelda from achieving an independent creativity? Did Zelda's demands force Scott to squander his talents and turn to alcohol? Whose betrayal--emotional, creative, sexual--destroyed the other? But he poses these questions in a new way: in the act of creation, Zelda and Scott are now aware of their eventual destruction, and the creative fire that consumed two artists combines symbolically with the fire that ended Zelda's life.
Cloudrock
by Garry KilworthOn Cloudrock the penalty for imperfection is death: death by the long fall into the void, through the poisonous mists and gases that rise from the deadlands far, far below.The two tribes who survive on the Rock, the tribes of Day and Night, keep their families tight, their bloodlines pure and true, by incest, by cannibalism and by murder. Parcelling out their tiny world in measures of light and time, they wrap themselves in ritual and taboo, each family denying the presence of the other. Then came the Shadow.Born to the matriarch Catrunner, the Shadow is deformed - a neuter dwarf - a natural candidate for instant death. But for this mutant, fate intervenes. The Shadow may live - on the condition that none acknowledge its presence: one word, one glance, and the Shadow will join its luckless kin in the long death-flight.Surviving on the outskirts of the family, the Shadow's very existence creates an unspoken question that challenges the ties that bind. This is the Shadow's tale...
Cloverfield: Creatures and Catastrophes in Post-9/11 Cinema (Reframing Hollywood)
by Steffen HantkeUpon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves’s Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001, trading the jingoistic rhetoric of retributive military aggression for serious engagement with personal and collective trauma. It applied the horror genre’s fascination with personal stories captured by found footage to the grand violence of history. Innovative and intense, Cloverfield represented blockbuster filmmaking at its best. Cloverfield’s franchising followed the path of high-profile Hollywood properties. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the franchise, measuring how it steers precariously between the commercial potential, creative risks, and political challenges in Hollywood. As 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) struggled to sustain and update the franchise’s original concept, both films’ strengths and weaknesses come into focus by comparison with the original, just as the historical sequence of all three films allows for a reassessment of Cloverfield itself. Author Steffen Hantke examines how, in the broader context of postmillennial Hollywood, the Cloverfield franchise remains both a harbinger of the way Hollywood does business and a test case for the cinematic fantasies of apocalyptic disaster that continue to dominate global box office, long after the Cold War that gave rise to giant creatures has ended and 9/11 has lost its hold on the global imagination. As an inspiration for the next stage of blockbuster filmmaking, in which franchises have replaced the singular cinematic masterpiece and marketing plays to fans as critics and scholars, Cloverfield remains as relevant today as when it first unleashed its giant creature onto New York City over a decade ago.
Clown in a Cornfield
by Adam CesareBram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult NovelIn Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost her life.Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can.Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now. YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee
Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives
by Adam CesareIt’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she wants is to be normal again.But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth—not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room.So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight the only way she knows how. Because when the truth gets lost in the lies, that’s when people start to die.Clown in a Cornfield was 2020’s Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives is perfectly set to attract old and new fans to the series.
Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo
by Adam CesareThe thrills and chills are far from over in the third novel from Bram Stoker Award winner and master of scare, horror legend Adam Cesare.Quinn has just survived yet another bloody run-in with the murderous clown Frendo, but somehow still she knows this won’t be the last. Tired of being hunted and seeing innocent people hurt, Quinn believes the only way to beat the horror is to take justice into her own hands--and stop the Frendo followers herself. Little does she know that this path will take her across cornfields and state lines, to where she will have to face the most dangerous and bloody menace yet: True believers.It’s an all-new tale in this terrifying trio series about the villains inside us all, from the master of slashers and suspense, award–winning author Adam Cesare.Clown in a Cornfield was 2020’s Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel.
Clowns from Outer Space (Boo Books)
by Michael DahlElla can't wait to celebrate Tia's birthday. But when Ella arrives at the party, there are clowns everywhere. Ella does not like clowns, and these clowns seem extra creepy and a little secretive. Just what are these clowns up to? With short chapters, easy-to-read text, and enhanced back matter, Boo Books deliver just-right frights (without the sleepless nights) for the earliest readers.
Cobe 2: le chemin légèrement tortueux vers le Néant (Cobe #2)
by Greg AlldredgeVivre une vie de chien. Les réparateurs, c'est comme ça qu'on les appelle, un groupe d'êtres surnaturels qui font fonctionner le monde dans lequel ils vivent. Les choses se cassent, ils les réparent. Veinard est un Réparateur Immortel, mais que se passe-t-il quand les Immortels commencent à mourir ? Veinard et La Mort doivent découvrir ce qui arrive aux Réparateurs avant que le monde tel qu'ils le connaissent ne sombre dans le chaos. En l'absence de paradis ou d'enfer, qui pourrait être à l'origine de cette nouvelle pagaille ? Lisez Cobe II : le chemin légèrement tortueux vers l'un ou l'autre pour connaître le destin de Veinard.
Cobe II: El Camino Ligeramente Torcido Hacia Ninguno
by Greg AlldredgeEl inmortal infeliz trabaja para descubrir cómo otros seres eternos están haciendo lo imposible ... muriendo. Viviendo la vida de un perro. Arregladores, así se llaman, un grupo de seres sobrenaturales que mantienen funcionando el mundo en el que viven. Las cosas se rompen, las arreglan. Lucky es un arreglador inmortal, pero ¿qué sucede cuando los inmortales comienzan a aparecer muertos? Lucky y Muerte necesitan descubrir qué les está sucediendo a los Fixers antes de que el mundo, tal como lo conocen, termine en el caos. Sin cielo ni infierno del que hablar, ¿quién podría estar detrás de este último lío? Lea Cobe II: El camino ligeramente torcido hacia Ninguno para conocer el destino de Lucky
Cobe II: Il Percorso Leggermente Tortuoso verso il Nulla (Cobe #2)
by Greg AlldredgeVivere la vita di un cane. Aggiustatori, così li chiamano, un gruppo di essere soprannaturali che contribuiscono a mantenere il mio in cui vivono pacifico. Le cose si rompono, e loro le aggiustano. Lucky è un Aggiustatore immortale, ma cosa accade quando gli Immortali iniziano ad apparire morti? Lucky e Morte devono scoprire cosa sta accadendo agli Aggiustatori prima che il mondo a loro conosciuto sfoci nel caos. Senza un paradiso o un inferno a cui riferirsi, chi si cela dietro quest’ultimo disastro? Leggete Cobe II: Il Percorso Leggermente Tortuoso verso il Nulla, per apprendere il destino di Lucky.
Cobe II: O caminho ligeiramente tortuoso para Nenhum (Cobe Volume: 2 #2)
by Greg AlldredgeUm caminho ligeiramente tortuoso para nenhum dos dois O infeliz imortal trabalha para descobrir como outros seres eternos estão fazendo o impossível ... morrendo. Vivendo a vida de um cachorro. Fixers, é assim que são chamados, um grupo de seres sobrenaturais que mantêm o mundo em que vivem funcionando. Coisas quebram, eles consertam. Lucky é um Fixer Immortal, mas o que acontece quando Immortals começam a aparecer mortos? Lucky e Death precisam descobrir o que está acontecendo com os Fixers antes que o mundo como eles sabem que termina em caos. Sem céu ou inferno para falar, quem poderia estar por trás dessa bagunça? Leia Cobe II: O caminho ligeiramente tortuoso para nenhum dos dois para saber o destino de Lucky
Cobe: A Maldição de Kampot (Cobe #1)
by Greg AlldredgeÀs vezes a vida está uma droga, e aí piora. Após ser deixado para morrer por seus amigos, Cobe retorna para sua vila e a encontra deserta. O que aconteceu com sua família? Sem amigos além de um cão vadio, chamado Sortudo, Cobe não tem esperanças de sobreviver, até que Adriana lhe dá um tiro na coxa. Como as coisas poderiam piorar? Nunca faça uma pergunta para a qual não deseja a resposta. Leia Cobe: A Maldição de Kampot para descobrir se ele um dia encontra a felicidade.
Cobe: La malezione di Kampot (Cobe #1)
by Greg AlldredgeDopo essere stato abbandonato morente da un suo amico, Cobe ritorna al suo villaggio per trovarlo deserto. Cosa è successo alla sua famiglia? Senza amici a parte un cane randagio di nome Lucky, Cobe non ha chance di sopravvivere, fin quando Adriana non gli spara in una coscia. Le cose potrebbero peggiorare? Non domandare se non vuoi sapere. Leggi Cobe: La Maledizione di Kampot per scoprire se troverà mai la felicità.
Cobe: Maldición de Kampot (Cobe #1)
by Greg AlldredgeA veces la vida apesta y luego empeora. Después de ser dejado muerto por sus amigos, Cobe regresa para encontrar su pueblo desierto. ¿Qué le pasó a su familia? Sin amigos, salvo un perro salvaje, llamado Lucky, Cobe no tiene esperanza de sobrevivir, hasta que Adriana le dispara en el muslo. ¿Cómo pueden empeorar las cosas? Nunca haga una pregunta para la que no desea la respuesta. Lee Cobe: La maldición de Kampot para saber si alguna vez encuentra la felicidad.
Cobe: la malédiction de Kampot (Cobe #1)
by Greg AlldredgeParfois, la vie est pénible puis elle empire. Après avoir été laissé pour mort par ses amis, Cobe revient pour trouver son village déserté. Qu’est-il arrivé à sa famille ? Sans amis, sauvant un chien sauvage, nommé Veinard, Cobe n’a aucun espoir de survie, jusqu’à ce qu’il ne reçoive dans la cuisse un carreau d’arbalète tiré par Adriana. Comment les choses peuvent-elles empirer ? Ne posez jamais de question si vous ne voulez pas avoir la réponse. lisez Cobe : La malédiction de Kampot pour savoir s’il trouve un jour le bonheur.
Cockstrut (Peckers #2)
by Jacques N. HoffPeckers: Book TwoWorld-renowned avian vet Sebastian Grant is so sure bird shifters aren't real that even when an unruly cockatoo named Louis ends up naked in his arms, it's difficult for him to admit he's not imagining it. Louis might be everything Sebastian has been looking for in a partner--funny, confident, sexy, and genuine--but there's one major problem: Louis is a captive in a gilded cage. With the help of Simon, his blue jay partner, Jay, and the expanding team of Undercover Peckers, Sebastian finds out he's willing to do anything to make sure Louis is able to fly free and cock strut to his heart's content.
Code Name Jack Rabbit (The Vampire Guard #1)
by Elizabeth NobleThe Vampire Guard: Book OneMeet the newest members of the Vampire Guard, where legend and myth meet science and technology. Jonas Forge, vampire. Once a spy and soldier, now a cop, Forge enjoys the life he's built with his friends in Flint, Ohio. Blair Turner, PhD. Blair, a vampire and computer hacker with exceptional skills, shares a powerful empathic bond with Forge, his soul mate. Declan, vampire, ex-pirate, ex-fur trapper, thief, and con man. Declan is Forge's former lover and soul mate to Lucas Coate. Lucas Coate, MD, Flint's medical examiner. A werewolf living among vampires, Lucas is also one of Forge's best friends. Their lives become complicated when an impending presidential visit throws them headlong into a world of high-tech vampire spies and espionage. Recruited into the Vampire Guard by the secret society of the Akhkharu Nasaru, they uncover a werewolf terrorist organization known as the Qiguan. Together they must thwart a murder attempt on the open waters of Lake Superior while tracking a previously unknown biological weapon controlled by the Qiguan--a weapon that may very well mean death for one of them.
Code Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel (Joe Ledger #6)
by Jonathan MaberryFor years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons―designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world's most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals the world's most dangerous weapons. Within days there are outbreaks of mass slaughter and murderous insanity across the American heartland. Can Joe Ledger stop a brilliant and devious master criminal from turning the Land of the Free into a land of the dead? Code Zero, a Joe Ledger novel from Jonathan Maberry, is the exciting direct sequel to Patient Zero.
Code of Blood: Code Of Blood (The Chant Mysteries #3)
by George C. ChesbroFrom the author of the Mongo Mysteries: The suspicious death of a friend leads the world&’s most wanted criminal down a dark and dangerous path. There are very few people international assassin John &“Chant&” Sinclair trusts, and even fewer who know his secrets. When his friend, Roman magistrate Vito Biaggi, is violently killed, Chant knows that what Italian authorities are calling a random assault is anything but. With Chant&’s help, Biaggi had been investigating an international cabal of businessmen who were funding terrorists. Only three weeks prior, he&’d revealed the conspiracy&’s existence and was on the brink of exposing its powerful players. But now Biaggi is dead, and Chant is determined to hunt down the ones responsible. His search exposes a shocking trail of corruption and death, ultimately leading Chant into a secretive world ruled by a madman, where he must face the only adversary he&’s ever failed to defeat. Code of Blood is the 3rd book in the Chant Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Coffey on the Mile
by Stephen KingThe Green Mile, Stephen King's #1 New York Times bestselling novel, was first published twenty years ago in six original paperback installments. Inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks about an innocent man on death row, The Green Mile is now available for the first time in e-serial form. Coffey on the Mile is Volume Six.Cold Mountain Penitentiary has seen its share of men drawing their last breaths, with many of them claiming to be innocent until the very end. In this final chapter of the six-part novel, we learn both John Coffey's fate and the terrible truth Paul Edgecombe discovers about him. The story also brings us farther into the present as Paul recounts the events of his life after Cold Mountain--and the lives of all he encountered there. The gentle giant with healing hands. The little mouse that softened a murderer's heart. The corrupt man capable of more evil than any of those he guarded. And all the wonderful and horrible men and moments in that place of ultimate retribution, the well-worn stretch of linoleum they called the Green Mile.
Coffey's Hands
by Stephen KingThe Green Mile, Stephen King's #1 New York Times bestselling novel, was first published twenty years ago in six original paperback installments. Inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks about an innocent man on death row, The Green Mile is now available for the first time in e-serial form. Coffey's Hands is Volume Three.Eduard Delacroix has grown quite attached to Mr. Jingles. But one guard, Percy Wetmore, despises Mr. Jingles...and anything that might bring happiness to an inmate. Not all guards can be like Paul. He's a man who doesn't like to see anyone suffer and has dedicated his career to making sure that the condemned men in his charge spend their last days with peace and dignity. Paul is also suffering. He has a painful bladder infection that just won't let up. It's because of this ailment that he learns that John Coffey has the ability to heal with his touch. It's a wondrous revelation at a time when yet another man must take his final trip on the Green Mile.
Coffin Moon: A Novel
by Keith RossonFrom the author of the &“exciting, suspenseful, horrifying&” (Stephen King) Fever House, a Vietnam veteran and his adopted niece hunt—and are hunted by—the vampire that slaughtered their family.&“Grabs you by the throat and doesn&’t relent.&”—Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened TeethIt&’s the winter of 1975, and Portland, Oregon, is all sleet and neon. Duane Minor is back home after a tour in Vietnam, a bartender just trying to stay sober; save his marriage with his wife, Heidi; and connect with his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, now that he&’s responsible for raising her. Things aren&’t easy, but Minor is scraping by.Then a vampire walks into his bar and ruins his life.When Minor crosses John Varley, a killer who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon, Varley brutally retaliates by murdering Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia filled with rage. What&’s left of their splintered family is united by only one desire: vengeance.So begins a furious, frenzied pursuit across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. From grimy alleyways to desolate highways to snow-lashed plains, Minor and Julia are cast into the dark orbit of undead children, silver bullet casters, and the bevy of broken men transfixed by Varley&’s ferocity. Everyone&’s out for blood.Gritty, unforgettable, and emotionally devastating, Coffin Moon asks what will be left of our humanity when grief transmutes into violence, when monsters wear human faces, and when our thirst for revenge eclipses everything else.
Coffins
by Rodman PhilbrickIn rural Maine, a stop on the Underground Railroad is menaced by a supernatural force in this terrifying novel of pre–Civil War horror. Davis Bentwood has nearly finished medical school when he meets an abolitionist dwarf walking across Harvard Yard. Jeb Coffin is a nonpracticing doctor, a devoted student of transcendentalism whose home life has been shaken by tragedy. The two men become friends, and Coffin invites Bentwood to rural Maine to save his family from itself. The Coffins are noted abolitionists, their home a stop on the Underground Railroad, and lately they have been menaced by a supernatural terror. The tragedies are countless: two brothers killed, a father driven mad, and a baby frozen solid in its crib. At first Bentwood cannot bring himself to acknowledge the impossible horrors that have cursed this family. But he will not survive his sojourn in Maine unless he can open his mind to the possibility that something evil is waiting in the dark.
Cognetic (Cognetic)
by James Tynion IVCognetic is the story of a powerful psychic being that once controlled one-third of the world's population as a part of its hivemind, and his return to humanity in modern-day New York City. It's also the story of a young woman, the assistant to the director of the FBI, who might be the only one who can save humanity, but at a terrible, terrible cost. Collects the complete limited series by writer James Tynion IV (Detective Comics, The Woods) and artist Eryk Donovan (Memetic), plus character profiles, essays, sketches, and cover gallery. "œCognetic stands alone, giving familiar sci-fi and horror themes a fresh Mission Impossible twist with a fascinating arc and eerie illustrations." - Newsarama
Coisas Que A Noite Sempre Escondeu: Um Conto de Baker Johnson
by Terry M. WestBaker Johnson é um pesquisador psíquico, demonólogo e exorcista vivendo na Nova Iorque de 1930. Brilhante, mas profundamente falho, Baker tem uma percepção sobrenatural que o permite ler pessoas com apenas um olhar. Em "Coisas Que a Noite Sempre Escondeu", Baker é abordado por um perigoso mafioso conhecido como Johnny Stücke. A Sala Escura de Baker, um lugar onde itens assombrados são catalogados e mantidos, guarda um objeto antigo que Stücke está determinado a possuir. Baker é apresentado a uma sociedade secreta chamada os Noturnos. E ele pode ser a única coisa entre o mundo dos humanos e a maior ameaça que este mundo já viu.