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  • Binding Them All
    This volume "binds" a collection of selected papers that emerged from the J.R.R. Tolkien-lecture-series initiated at the University of Augsburg in 2014. Each of the papers is representative of the editors' interest in the interdisciplinary potentials of Tolkien's works and the joint venture to make his legacy visible and accesible from the viewpoint of numerous academic...
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    43,13 €

  • Reading Austen in America
    Juliette Wells
    Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen’s novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen’s international fame. Drawing on a range of sources that have never before come to light, Juliette Wells solves the long-standing bibliographical mystery of how and w...
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    115,07 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien - Romanticist and Poet
    Julian Eilmann / Evelyn Koch
    Sleeps a song in things aboundingthat keep dreaming to be heard:Earth’s tune will start resoundingif you find the magic word.Joseph v. Eichendorff’s (1788–1857) famous poem “Wünschelrute” expresses what lies at the heart of the romantic weltanschauung: a transcendent secret surrounds us and can be accessed by romantic individuals with the help of poetry and art. As a consequenc...
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    39,52 €

  • La ambivalencia de Eva
    Jairo Mendoza / Vários Autores
    Una historia que hace un gran homenaje al fracaso, que sumerge al lector en el vertiginoso desenlace que condena a su protagonista masculino a su irremediable destino de solitario, perdedor y fracasado, como la consecuencia de haber invitado a su vida a Eva, el ser ambivalente que junto con Liliana se convierten al final en el combustible de su desesperanza. Todo comienza con u...
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    6,56 €

  • Historias perversas para contarte
    Acosta Acosta
    A mi lector:Mi cuento es el cuento. Por eso, te he escrito 12 narraciones tituladas 'Historias Perversas para Contarte'. Son una suma de sueños, de pequeñas o grandes realidades vividas o escuchadas que, al final, se traducen en una mezcla, un amarre entre el hilo de la fantasía con la realidad.El epígrafe 'Horizontes y ficciones. Simples creadores de paisajes mentales' de Dian...
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    5,17 €

  • 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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    131,16 €

  • The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000-2015
    This diverse collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand. Their varied approaches—literary and cultural, historical and political, scientific and artistic—exemplify how his biographies of Byron and his edition of the letters and journals attract both academic and popular audiences. ...
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    122,04 €

  • Aragorn
    Angela P Nicholas
    “The most enjoyable work on Tolkien I have read in many years” Christina ScullAragorn. Strider. King. Ranger. He is one of the most famous and celebrated characters in the history of popular literature. But how much do you really know about the man?This book is a biographical study of Aragorn, covering his ancestry, pre-birth prophecies, the various stages of his life, and his ...
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    40,15 €

  • Maigret’s World
    Murielle Wenger / Stephen Trussel
    Georges Simenon’s 75 novels and 28 short stories that feature Chief Inspector Jules Maigret provide us with a great deal of information about the French police detective--but only in small, episodic doses. As readers become acquainted with Maigret one detail at a time, he slowly takes on a flesh-and-bone realism--not merely a character in a story, but someone we would like t...
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    42,78 €

  • La cultura rusa en las obras de Nabokov
    Nailya Garipova
    Vladimir Nabokov es uno de los representantes cosmopolitas de la literatura mundial del siglo XX. Considerado como un escritor con una influencia decisiva en la literatura rusa y en la anglo-americana, su obra se alza como un eslabón entra las culturas rusa, europea y norteamericana. El legado ruso es, sin duda alguna, una característica clave que convierte sus novelas en texto...
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    19,00 €

  • The Supernatural Revamped
    Barbara Brodman
    This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters, their literary representations, or popular media. Instead, we move around the world and into the twenty-first century, reshaping legends into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant. ...
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    63,92 €

  • Romantic Ecocriticism
    Dewey Hall
    This book examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies. ...
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    66,54 €

  • Under the Duvet
    Marian Keyes
    From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium.Her novels are read and adored by millions around the world, and with Under the Duvet, Marian Keyes tackles the world of nonfiction. These...
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    13,50 €

  • Clive Barker
    Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
    A necessary and timely study of Barker’s influence in dark fantasy, gothic and horror studies. The book features twelve groundbreaking essays on Barker’s creative legacy and influence, and reevaluates his celebrated and lesser known works in fiction, film and visual art, from the Books of Blood (1984-85) to The Scarlet Gospels (2015). ...
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    169,60 €

  • Dragon Ball Culture Volume 4
    Derek Padula
    Goku goes west! His grand adventure begins anew as his martial arts master tells him to travel the world to increase his power. But what will happen when this naïve boy enters the real world and meets people who want to harm him? Will he be able to find his grandpa’s 4-Star dragon ball, or will the villainous Red Ribbon Army get to it first?!In Dragon Ball Culture Volume 4, you...
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    20,89 €

  • Eat Local
    Danny King
    The novel of the Jason Flemyng horror film of the same name, starring Charlie Cox, Mackenzie Crook, Freema Agyeman, Tony Curran, Vincent Regan, Nick Moran and Dexter Fletcher.In a quiet countryside farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too; Sebastian Crockett, an unwitting Essex boy who thinks he's on ...
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    23,75 €

  • The Devil's Board
    L. Sydney Fisher
    A chilling tale inspired by TRUE EVENTS.On an American college campus in 1987, three students began playing a seemingly innocent game of contacting the dead.  Word spread fast around the campus and curiosity grew expanding the group to more than forty people. Spirits were summoned almost daily, and the dark world's influence began to take its toll as one student fell gravel...
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    12,93 €

  • Monstrous media/spectral subjects
    Explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. ...
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    29,83 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 11 (2017)
    S. T. Joshi
    Table of ContentsPersonal Tragedy in  “The Thing on the Doorstep”    W. H. Pugmire    Lovecraft’s Greek Tragedy    Duncan Norris    On Lovecraft’s Lifelong  Relationship with Wonder    Jan B. W. Petersen    Some Philological Observations on  “The Horror at Red Hook”    Armen Alexanyan    New York, Culture Shock, and  a Glimpse of the Future in “He”    Cecelia Drewer    H. P. Lo...
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    16,40 €

  • Lovecraftian Voyages
    Jr. Kenneth W. Faig
    In 1973, plans were made to publish a collection of musings by noted Lovecraft scholar Kenneth W. Faig, Jr., the man now credited with transforming research on Lovecraft and his circle from a haphazard collection of amateurs into a literary discipline unto itself. The publication never materialized, and Faig’s manuscript became the holy grail of scholarship, difficult to consul...
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    24,93 €

  • Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 2
    Connor Pitetti / Matthew Beach
     This second volume of Lovecraftian Proceedings contains a wealth of cutting-edge scholarship on the dreamer from Providence, including substantial articles from both recipients of the S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship for H. P. Lovecraft at Brown University.  Lovecraftian Proceedings fosters exploration of Lovecraft as a rationalist who created an elaborate cosmic mythol...
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    19,98 €

  • Holy Anime!
    Patrick Drazen
    Drazen samples depictions of Christianity in the popular Japanese media of comics and cartoons. The book begins with the work of postwar comics master Tezuka Osamu, with results that range from the comic to the revisionist to the blasphemous and obscene. ...
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    40,71 €

  • 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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    169,72 €

  • H.C. Bailey’s Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
    Laird R. Blackwell
    H.C. Bailey’s detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes--the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled inter...
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    72,23 €

  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #1
    Michael Arnzen / Steve Rasnic Tem
    For over four decades, Steve Rasnic Tem has been an acclaimed author of horror, weird, and sentimental fiction. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as 'A perfect balance between the bizarre and the straight-forward' and Library Journal as 'One of the most distinctive voices in imaginative literature,' Steve Rasnic Tem has been read and cherished the world over for his affecting, genre-...
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    11,78 €

  • The Digital Age Detective
    Brendan Riley
    Imagining the figure of the fictional detective as an archetype in the study of modern culture, the author argues that contemporary detective fiction can help us better comprehend fundamental shifts of the Digital Age--in communication, family, entertainment, society, even the way we think as individuals. The nature of the detective story itself models how we build and share...
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    72,14 €

  • Who’s the Murderer? or, The Mystery of the Forest
    Eleanor Sleath
    ‘As Cecilia advanced from the door, she thought the figures on the coffins began to move, their marble features became fleshy​—the lights they held waxed pale​—a strong sulphureous vapour rose from the tombs. Horror overwhelmed her, and again she made an effort to depart; but her feet, when she would have moved, sunk imperceptibly into the ground​—a hot boiling fluid seemed to ...
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    58,77 €

  • Who’s the Murderer? or, The Mystery of the Forest
    Eleanor Sleath
    ‘As Cecilia advanced from the door, she thought the figures on the coffins began to move, their marble features became fleshy​—the lights they held waxed pale​—a strong sulphureous vapour rose from the tombs. Horror overwhelmed her, and again she made an effort to depart; but her feet, when she would have moved, sunk imperceptibly into the ground​—a hot boiling fluid seemed to ...
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    30,52 €

  • Appendix N
    Jeffro Johnson
    APPENDIX N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons is a detailed and comprehensive investigation of the various works of science fiction and fantasy that game designer Gary Gygax declared to be the primary influences on his seminal role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. It is a deep intellectual dive into the literature of SF/F's past that will fascinate any serious rol...
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    27,98 €

  • Dead Reckonings No. 21 (Spring 2017)
    Under new editorship and with a broader scope, the latest issue of the long-running journal from Hippocampus Press offers a bonanza of material for the enthusiast of Horror and the Weird in The Arts. TABLE OF CONTENTSBestarred with Fainting Flowers ..... Daniel PietersenSymbolism and Myth in the Work of R. Murray Gilchrist The “V” Word ..... Jose CruzT. E. Grau, They Don’t Come...
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    7,49 €


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