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  • Necronomicon Revelations -or- Crossing to the Abyss
    Joshua Free
    Long-lost remnants of ancient Mesopotamian religion, Anunnaki mythology and hidden mysteries of Babylonian magic are coherently revealed in the first complete esoteric guide to a very real underground “Necronomicon Legacy” from the world renown “Mardukite Research Organization” developed by Joshua Free.World renown expert and Director of the modern “Mardukite Research Organizat...
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    22,10 €

  • How Superheroes Model Community
    Nathan Miczo
    How Superheroes Model Community examines superheroes as a community engaged in protecting the public sphere. Nathan Miczo highlights and explores the interpersonal and communicative practices that are necessary to being a member of such a community. ...
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    50,51 €

  • England’s Secret Weapon
    Amanda J Field
    England’s Secret Weapon examines the way Hollywood used Sherlock Holmes in a series of fourteen films that spanned the years of World War II in Europe, from The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1939 to Dressed to Kill in 1946. Basil Rathbone’s portrayal of Holmes has influenced every actor who has subsequently played this popular character on film, TV, stage and radio, yet the film...
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    14,78 €

  • The Ages of The Flash
    Joseph J Darowski
    While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity makes his character easily comprehendible for all audiences, whether they are avid comic fans or newcomers to the genre, and in turn he has become one of the most iconic figures in the comic-book industry. This collection of new essays serves as a stepping-ston...
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    40,70 €

  • Medieval Crime Fiction
    Anne McKendry
    Combining elements of medievalism, the historical novel and the detective narrative, medieval crime fiction capitalizes upon the appeal of all three--the most famous examples being Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose (one of the best-selling books ever published) and Ellis Peters’ endearing Brother Cadfael series. Hundreds of other novels and series fill out the genre, in s...
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    57,26 €

  • Neoliberal gothic
    A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe. ...
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    171,07 €

  • The Gothic and death
    An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms. ...
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    36,90 €

  • Eleanor Cameron
    Paul V Allen
    Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science fiction novels of all time, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroo...
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    42,78 €

  • Bride of Destiny
    Sovella Brown Thompson
    BRIDE OF DESTINY, a mystery based on real events. Our protagonist, Debra Martin is asked to return to her family home for her grandfather's funeral after being away for twenty years. However, a funeral is not all she returns to. The chanting in the night did not bother her until she realized that a voodoo ceremony was going on in the house, her new house that her grandfathe...
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    7,38 €

  • The Great Monster Magazines
    Robert Michael 'Bobb' Cotter
    This is a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. 'Monster magazine' is a blanket term to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters, both of which are illustrated in comic book style and printed in black and white. The book describes the rise and fall of these...
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    43,99 €

  • Sublime Conclusions
    Robert K. Weninger / Robert KWeninger
    One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleasure, the end of their species. Complementing her visions of a world-encompassing natural plague (The Last Man, 1826) and man-made technological self-eradication (Frankenstein, 1818), the third – and oldest – paradigm of how to depict humankind’s demise is the ...
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    24,93 €

  • The Harry Potter Generation
    Emily Lauer
    The generation of readers most heavily impacted by J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series--those who grew up alongside 'the boy who lived'--have come of age. They are poised to become teachers, parents, critics and writers, and many of their views and choices will be influenced by the literary revolution in which they were immersed. This collection of new essays explores the man...
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    54,43 €

  • A dona onc¸a e seus amigos
    Waldo Ney de Melo Tavares
    Estória que visa chamar atenção, principalmente das crianças, da necessidade de preservar o meio ambiente, transparecendo também a prática de bons hábitos, observando o exercício do perdão, tolerância e relacionamentos com os semelhantes e respeito aos animais. 10 ...
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    6,90 €

  • Native American Mystery Writing
    Mary Stoecklein
    This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial crimes, arguing for strengthened tribal sovereignty, and illustrating the resilience of Indigenous peoples. ...
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    122,55 €

  • Weird Talers
    Bobby Derie
    For more than a decade, Bobby Derie has written insightful and penetrating essays on some of the leading authors of pulp fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, especially Robert E. Howard and his friends, colleagues, and fellow-writers. In this collection of twenty-six essays, Derie covers an extraordinarily wide range of subjects; but in every instance he draws upon primary documents...
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    27,20 €

  • García Márquez
    Ciro Bianchi Ross / Ross Bianchi
    Gabriel García Márquez es, junto con Ernest Hemingway, el escritor no cubano más difundido en la Isla. Esta crónica devela de cabo a rabo sus vínculos con Cuba desde que en el Caribe colombiano se fascinó con la música cubana -Pérez Prado, el Trio Matamoros- y se entusiasmó con las radionovelas de Félix B. Caignet, y sigue el día a día de su estancia habanera, primero en 1959 y...
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    13,01 €

  • Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens
    Anna Milon
    This volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.Following a much-contested Call for Papers, ‘Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens’ explores Tolkien’s complex use of religious ideology, the readers’ approach to their beloved fictional world via unusual spiritual and philosophical c...
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    18,99 €

  • Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1
    Files Gemma / Gemma Files
    Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces.ContentsVenioGemma FilesThe Lord is an Active ShooterFiona Maeve GeistThe SistersF.J. BergmannHorror Religiosus: The...
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    15,89 €

  • The Science Fiction Fanzine Reader
    Luis Ortiz
    THE SCIENCE FICTION FANZINE READER: FOCAL POINTS, 1930-1960 is the first mainstream book to go into the background of fanzine culture and shed light on how science fiction fandom has shaped popular culture. Editor Luis Ortiz with his deep knowledge and passion for the genre has mined thousands of fanzines to collect more than 50 essays by participants in the genesis of American...
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    39,50 €

  • Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story
    Laird R. Blackwell
    Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime...
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    72,06 €

  • Perspectives on Digital Comics
    This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting and using digital comics. Contributors discuss comics made specifically for web consumption, and also digital reproductions of print-comics. Written for those who may not be familiar with digital comics or digital comic scholarship, the essays cover perspectives on reading, criticism and analysis of...
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    57,35 €

  • 'I’m Just a Comic Book Boy'
    Comics and the punk movement are inextricably linked--each has a foundational do-it-yourself ethos and a nonconformist spirit defiant of authority. This collection of new essays provides for the first time a thorough analysis of the intersections between comics and punk. The contributors expand the discussion beyond the familiar U.S. and UK scenes to include the influence pu...
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    57,40 €

  • Mid-century gothic
    Lisa Mullen
    Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was redefined by the upstart objects of modernity. ...
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    157,57 €

  • Dining with Madmen
    Thomas Fahy
    In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror. Conspicuous consumption may have communicated success in the eighties, but only if it did not become visible on the body. American society had come to view fatness as a horrify...
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    50,15 €

  • Dining with Madmen
    Thomas Fahy
    In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror. Conspicuous consumption may have communicated success in the eighties, but only if it did not become visible on the body. American society had come to view fatness as a horrify...
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    158,30 €

  • The American Superhero
    Richard Hall
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    135,91 €

  • Santería, Vodou and Resistance in Caribbean Literature
    Paul Humphrey
    African-derived religious traditions like Santería and Vodou have long been a site of political, cultural and social resistance in the Caribbean. Through his focus on the body as the juncture between the physical and spiritual planes, Humphrey’s analysis of a number of Caribbean novels and plays foregrounds the complex nature of women’s negotiation of religious, social and poli...
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    132,98 €

  • Sub-creating Arda
    J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary cosmos may not be the most elaborate of the imaginary worlds in existence, it is certainly the most influential. The posthumous editorial work of Tolkien’s son Christopher has also shown that Arda remains unrivalled in its consistency and complexity. Additionally, the re-publication of Tolkien’s Andrew Lang lecture ‘On Fairy-stories’ (originally delive...
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    39,54 €

  • Breve historia de la fantasía
    Silvia Pato Rico
    Breve historia de la fantasía es un ensayo completo sobre el concepto y la historia de una disciplina que nadie puede pasar de largo. La fantasía es una parte intrínseca del ser humano y en este libro veremos cómo nos acompaña desde antes de ser nombrada como Fantasía, siempre hemos necesitado mitos de creación y de destrucción provocados por seres diferentes a los humanos, los...
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    19,76 €

  • An Ethics Beyond
    Kevin Richard Kaiser
    This study examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions concern nonhuman animals, which are prevalent in his writing. Posthumanist ethics can help us understand what is at play in Saunders's fiction. Meanwhile, his texts can help us und...
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    15,00 €


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