![]() ![]() Medical Thriller - Yes Medical Plotlets: - psychiatrist messes up mind Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult BookĬrime Thriller - Yes Crime plotlets: - vigilante getting revenge General Crime (including known murderer) - Yes Amnesia story? - Yes If story PRIMARILY about main chr. (people, objects, places) 10% Tone of story - scarey (primal ax-wielding fear) Wikiwand is the worlds leading Wikipedia reader for web and mobile. of violence and chases 38.9% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 38.9% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 12.2% How society works & physical descript. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all. False Memory is a novel by the American author Dean Koontz, released in 1999. ![]() Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript. No fan of Dean Koontz or of psychological suspense will want to miss this extraordinary novel of the human mind’s capacity to tormentand destroyitself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.Īt the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. ![]() His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. ![]() Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are entries on animal species whose milk is commonly (cow, goat, sheep) and not so commonly (think yak, camel, and reindeer) used in cheesemaking, as well as entries on a few highly important breeds within each species, such as the Nubian goat or the Holstein cow. The concentrated whey cheeses popular in Norway, brunost, are covered here, as are the traditional Turkish and Iranian cheeses that are ripened in casings prepared from sheep's or goat's skin. From cottage cheese to Camembert, from Gorgonzola to Gruyere, there are entries on all of the major cheese varieties globally, but also many cheeses that are not well known outside of their region of production. ![]() The Oxford Companion to Cheese is the first major reference work dedicated to cheese, containing 855 A-Z entries on cheese history, culture, science, and production. In fact, after a long period of industrialized, processed, and standardized cheese, cheesemakers, cheesemongers, affineurs, and most of all consumers are rediscovering the endless variety of cheeses across cultures. ![]() Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients - milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes - into new and exciting products with vastly different shapes, sizes, and colors, and equally complex and varied tastes, textures, and, yes, aromas. ![]() The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Widely esteemed as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, he is the author of the novels The Trial and The Castle. ![]() This classic collection of forty-one great short works-including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker"-now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."įranz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, where he lived until his death in 1924. Neugroschel’s translation of Kafka's work has made this controversial and monumental writing accessible to a whole new generation. Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. Including his most widely recognized short works, as well as two new stories, this translation of Franz Kafka’s writings illuminate one of the century’s most controversial writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. That path leads to an old gothic tower in the woods, a place David had blocked from his memory, a house of horrors both past and present. In a terrifying display, right in front of the kids, the man utters threats until he chokes on his own tongue, sparking a series of events that drag David and his family back into the days of curses and murders, onto a path of unimaginable terror, all too familiar. But no sooner does he return than a stranger visits their doorstep, the son of Pee Wee Gaskins. ![]() ![]() Now David is back, his four children in tow, visiting his parents'' home, a place he has learned to cherish despite the evils that haunted his younger days. And Gaskins had a particular hatred for the Player family, then for David, himself, who barely escaped those years with his own life intact. Its climax came in human form, a monster of a man, one of the most notorious serial killers the nation has ever seen: Pee Wee Gaskins. The imagined curses of a people born centuries earlier, passed from father to son, mother to daughter, generation to generation. The threats, the kidnappings, the murders. ![]() David Player has spent 30 years trying to forget the traumas of his childhood. The author of the New York Times best-selling Maze Runner series leads us on a dark journey of generational horror as we visit The House of Tongues. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By tying together the elusive threads of his oeuvre into one exhaustive overview, this book reveals just what it was about Bosch and his painting that proved so immensely influential. His work is renowned for its fantastic imagery, ethereal landscapes, original religious concepts and, most famously, his macabre, nightmarish depictions of Hell. Texts from art historian and Bosch expert Stefan Fischer dissect the many compelling elements that populate each scene, from hybrid creatures of man and beast to Bosch’s pictorial use of proverbs and idioms. The Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch is considered one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. To this day, the painter par excellence of hell and its demons continues to puzzle and enthrall scholars, artists, designers, and musicians alike.īased on the best-selling XXL edition, which saw TASCHEN commission new and exclusive photography of details and recently restored works, this large-scale monograph presents Bosch’s complete oeuvre. 1450–1516) secured his place as a pillar of art history. A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with just 20 paintings and nine drawings to his name, Netherlandish visionary Hieronymus Bosch (c. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every time Dara flicked it away with static electricity it just came back a second later, singed but angry. Those same twigs snapped at Dara’s heels, poison ivy climbing up his ankles. Lehrer walked a few paces ahead, the underbrush coiling back on itself every time he took a step-like it was afraid to come too close. Look away for a moment, and it would strike. The virus lurked in the shadowy spaces between the roots, slithered up pine bark. Dara kept one hand tangled up in that magic, the other braced on the grip of his gun.ĭara had been out here over a dozen times-the first trip when he was just six, clinging to Lehrer’s shirt sleeve like that would be enough to keep him safe. ![]() Magic lived in the quarantined zone, endemic in the twisted trunks of old trees, the cold wind that tore through gory leaves (still clinging to their bony branches, at least for now) it sunk deep in the mossy soil underfoot. 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