HPL rejected him outright, saying “What the public considers ‘weirdness’ in drama is rather pitiful or absurd. After it was published in Weird Tales in 1933, editor Farnsworth Wright asked Lovecraft for permission to adapt it for radio. Written rather late in HPL's career, it includes many of his favorite themes-New England history and architecture, Arkham and Miskatonic University, the Necronomicon, Elder Things, Yog Sothoth and Nyarlathotep-and embodies Lovecraft’s cosmic vision and colossal imagination. Inspired by an academic lecture Lovecraft had attended about the size of the universe, The Dreams in the Witch House uses the supernatural forces of witchcraft and religion to tell a scientific story of dreams and dimensions and differential geometry. Is he going mad, or are his horrifying dreams somehow becoming reality? Walter Gilman, a mathematics student at Miskatonic University, takes up lodging in Arkham's legend-haunted "Witch House." Before long, the room's weird architecture, dark history and disturbing sounds invade his psyche, and even his friends and fellow students can't help him.
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Serious description: Adrian, an arrogant and creepy businessman, has been reviewing video footage of his new employees for months (without their knowledge). It’s not long before the two are working out their tension after hours, and lust blossoms into love. Tensions arise, and the woman who caught Adrian’s eye from afar is immediately irritated by his presence. He’s been monitoring business operations – including his employees – for months, and now he’s ready to make some changes. Sexy description: Adrian, a confident and powerful businessman, officially assumes the role of CEO of the company he purchased recently. There are two very different ways of looking at this storyline, so I’m going to give you the “sexy” description and the “serious” description, then we’ll reconvene with my thoughts: Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was difficult. “ Broken Horses led me right into Brandi’s heart, and my own.” (Brené Brown)īrandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, 14 times in as many years. “Brandi’s story is about perseverance, humor, forgiveness, and manifestation. “One of the great memoirs of our time.a gift from Brandi’s soul.” (Glennon Doyle) The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer, and six-time Grammy winner opens up about a life shaped by music in this candid, heartfelt, and intimate story. So while this is a novel that explores with sensitivity and nuance some important issues, it also celebrates what we all deserve: love, kindness, hope and jigsaw puzzles. What keeps Meredith at home for so long is dark, but what saves her are the joys of life we know better than ever we can’t survive without: friends and family, support and connectedness. It was conceived and written before the pandemic, but this past year we’ve experienced so differently together makes this story relatable and unforgettable. Leeke said: “This is a novel that truly delivers on its emotional promise. Why? And what will it take to get her through her own front door?” The synopsis states: “ Meredith, Alone tells the story of the perfectly ordinary, perfectly extraordinary Meredith Maggs who has not left her house for 1,215 days. Rights have also been pre-empted in seven other territories, including a six-figure deal in Germany, and at auction in North America to Beth de Guzman at Grand Central Publishing by the Bent Agency's Jenny Bent on behalf of Mushens. It will be a major launch for Michael Joseph, publishing early summer 2022 in hardback, e-book and audio. UK and Commonwealth rights went to Jessica Leeke from Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment in a two-book deal. Scottish freelance journalist Claire Alexander’s debut novel Meredith, Alone has been pre-empted by Penguin Michael Joseph in a “major” six-figure deal. God said “because of your sin you cant come in”, but the moment the curtain tore in two, everything changed. It is a gospel presentation that focuses on the significance of the temple curtain. 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I guess what I mean is that this is a very sweet romantic story that went straight to my heart and doesn’t plan to leave too soon! I really like stories like this, that get you through every stage of a young relationship that make you hold your breath for the romantic moments, for the first kiss that make you smile at all the silliness and cuteness of the couple that make you ache for them when they are in trouble and fall apart that make you love them more when they get back together, much stronger as a couple, much more in love, knowing themselves better, accepting each other with the good and the bad, feeling their love grow with every page, with every word… Because I simply LOVE feeling my head so light and having my heart skip a beat remembering how it felt to fall in love for the first time (and every time after that). This is why I read YA books – to get this feeling of joy, of happiness, of love. There's something dark happening in the world beyond most peoples' vision, and if Keira isn't able to sever the ties between the living and the dead, the chained spirits may not be the only things twisted beyond saving.Īlex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Unnerved but intrigued, Keira opens her second sight and discovers he's right: resentful specters cling to Dane…and if she can't find a way to stop them, threaten to consume everything in their path. The mansion is steeped in history that is equal parts complicated and bloody―and at its center is the man who once tried to kill her, now begging for her help.ĭane Crispin believes his home is haunted―and that the unquiet dead clawing through the ancient house are after him. But then she receives an invitation to dinner at the local recluse's crumbling ancestral estate. Hunted and haunted, all she wants is to put her mysterious past behind her and move forward with her new friends as Blighty Graveyard's groundskeeper. Keira must decide if she should use her ability to contact ghosts to help the man who once tried to kill her. In other words, when fictive family is suffering the real pains of the Lebanese civil war, the mother in this book will say, tell me a story, distract me, enchant me, and the imagination serves that function too. And that is, after all, one of the places that the imagination springs from. In this book, people are often entering the world of legend when the real world is painful. They’re the atmosphere, and the real people feel like mortals walking around in this fairytale atmosphere. We meet many, many other characters here: Fatima, who appears to be a goddess, we meet Baybars, the slave king, we meet imps, djinn, witches and horses with magical powers. A story that ranges from the seven gates of the underworld to a deathbed in Beirut could only be told by a real storyteller, a hakawati–a spellbinder. There are the mythic wars of Arab lore, and the real civil war in Lebanon. But this is the story of a thousand threads interweaving legends, fables and parable. That’s the brightest thread of this tale. returns to his native Beirut after long years spent in Los Angeles to visit the bedside of his dying father. After reading I didn’t want to return to the mundane world. “Alameddine's intoxicating, ambitious, multi-layered new novel is a marvel of storytelling bravado.” Alameddine juxtaposes truth and fiction, contemporary lust and bawdy tales of the past, today's grief and sorrow in the ancient world.” One of the finest novels I've read in years.” The series leads us through a bunch of colourful and interesting characters, focusing on further connected issues as the falling dominoes of the plot move one direction, only to turn our attention elsewhere. This allowed the plot to stay away from stereotypes and formulaic dramatisation. The book allows us to witness the child and his kidnappers at the same time as we see the rest of the story unfold, which I appreciated very much. I found it difficult to stop once I started and wanted to know what was going to happen next. The story is surprising at every corner with unexpected connections, turns and events. This takes place in Nevada County during a bluegrass festival. The donor suddenly takes an interest in 'his' child, while the biological mother also has a rekindled interest in her 'lost son'. One through sperm donation, one through adoption. It is one of the best plotted series I have read since "Tales of the City", the book(s) throw plenty of twists and unexpected connections our way as well as showing unexpected consequences, falling like the proverbial dominoes in the title.Ī possibly only minor and harmless incident in a supermarket starts a chain reaction of events for a family with two unconventionally acquired children. Blaha is a well plotted and gripping thriller about a child abduction. And there’s a whiff of socialism in the privileged air: challenged by Bunny about his depredations Raffles avers that crime is wrong but the distribution of wealth is wrong as well. He steals partly to maintain his lifestyle but also for the sheer creative fun of it. Raffles is criminal as artist relishing the conception, plotting and realisation of his crimes. Raffles and Bunny inhabit a Wildean world of paradox, moral relativism and aestheticism. At first I thought this was my fevered imagination but Hornung knew Oscar Wilde and it seems that echoes of the Wilde/Bosie dalliance were also entirely intentional. Their relationship carries a delicious homoerotic subtext. Raffles and Bunny met at their public school and are very close friends. He has a bachelor pad at the Albany, belongs to the best West End clubs and dines in grand houses as a guest before breaking into them and cracking the safe. Raffles is a dandy about town, a handsome, well-heeled member of late Victorian society who is also a diamond thief and burglar. Any resemblance is entirely intentional: the book bears the dedication ‘To A.C.D., This Form of Flattery’ and Hornung was married to Constance Doyle, Conan Doyle’s sister. Raffles and his accomplice Harry ‘Bunny’ Masters are the criminal mirror images of Holmes and Watson. |