![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How many writers have a biography that can begin something like this: “Stephen King is the author of more than 50 books, all of them worldwide best sellers.”? Mercedes” and now “Revival,” the best of the bunch, finds him writing with the infectious glee that has always been at the heart of his popular success. But the trifecta of “Joyland” (2013), “Mr. He hit the doldrums with “Doctor Sleep” (2013), his sequel to “The Shining.” And “Duma Key” (2008) seemed to have more to do with his spending time in the part of Florida the book describes than with any burning need to tell a story. King says inspired “Revival” if you don’t want to kill its chances of scaring the hell out of you. And steer clear of the ageless 1890 short novel that Mr. But don’t do it until his new book, tenderly realistic despite its roots in horror and science fiction, has had its way with you. King must have devoured as a boy and a seminal figure in the creation of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos horror genre, are so far out of the mainstream that they can prompt long, dreamy voyages of discovery.īy all means look up Robert Bloch or Derleth if you’d like to have more insight into what shaped Mr. Others, like August Derleth, the author of more than 100 books that Mr. Mercedes” arrived in June.) Some, like Bram Stoker and H. ![]() You can fall down a very deep rabbit hole just pondering the list of names to whom Stephen King dedicates “Revival,” his second skin-crawler published this year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "It's sort of like going around and saying 'Sweet Caesar!' or 'Holy Cow!' You know, it was a more innocent day, and we really did not know what we were talking about. by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Jo Duffy, Scott Edelman, John Romita, Ken Landgraf, Brent Anderson ( 201 ) 3. "You know, after the first 150,000 times Luke Cage says 'Sweet Christmas!', you really want to try and find a better way of expressing frustration, which of course means going uptown in New York and hearing what people actually say," he continued. ![]() "I'm just going through a story here for the new anthology that Sean Chen and I are working on, throwing out repetitive words here and there, trying to make expletives a little more palatable." The cover to God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson. "Probably not as much as I used to, but I suspect the advantage of not being on a monthly or bi-monthly deadline means I can proofread a little more enthusiastically than I did back then," said Claremont. ![]() ![]() Asked about some of his fondly-remembered Claremontisms like "the focused totality my powers," Claremont instead talked about comics exclamations in general. Title, X-Men: Old Soldiers X-Men Series Authors, Chris Claremont, Alan Davis Illustrated by, Alan Davis Publisher, Marvel Worldwide, Incorporated, 2004 ISBN. ![]() ![]() In Tom Brown’s School Days, the British boy’s book by Thomas Hughes, the villain of the piece is Harry Flashman. While I like my heroes to be heroic as much as the next romance fan, I have a big soft spot in my heart for Flashy, but I’d never let him know it – he’d probably sell me into a harem or some such trick. Flashy is the worst sort of cad, as he would tell you himself, and never reforms. ![]() You can’t say that about Sir Harry Flashman, the protagonist of George MacDonald Fraser’s series of historical novels set during the height of the Victorian Empire. The main characters in those books may act the anti-hero at times, but they are ultimately true heroes. ![]() ![]() Many romance readers enjoy historical fiction like Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles and Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey Maturin series (both series were reviewed at AAR). ![]() ![]() He takes it on, reluctantly but professionally, and as he watches Corina from the hotel room he’s rented across from the Hoffmans’ central Oslo apartment, he becomes “bewitched”. He doesn’t really want to say yes to his boss Hoffman but once he knows what the gig is, there’s no way out of it. So it has to be murder – and he has something of a taste and a talent for “the magical moment when I, and I alone, had power over life and death” – it’s “the virus I had in my blood”, he says. “I can’t drive inconspicuously… I can’t be used in robberies… I have a weak, sensitive nature I have to stay well away from drugs”, plus he falls in love so quickly that pimping isn’t an option either. ![]() Olav explains early on that he’s not much of a baddie. Blood On Snow is another stand-alone for the Norwegian superstar author, a short, pacy little thriller which, instead of delving into the psyche of a morally dubious cop, reveals a villain with a heart. Nesbø topped the charts twice in 2014, with Police, the latest thriller starring the brilliant but troubled alcoholic detective Harry Hole, and with stand-alone crime novel The Son. ![]() ![]() Though he rallied for republications of his works, Machen’s literary career ultimately diminished, and he lived much of his life in poor finances. During World War I, Machen became a full-time journalist. Read reviews and buy The White People and Other Weird Stories - (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Machen (Paperback) at Target. His literary career revived once more with the publication of his works The House of Souls and The Hill of Dreams. ![]() Machen continued to publish supernatural novels but spent time as actor in a traveling player company after his wife’s death. Among his fiction, he may be best known for the allusive, haunting title story of this book, The White People, which H.P. ![]() Decried upon initial publication for its depictions of sex and violence, the tale has since become a horror classic and has been hailed as “maybe the best in the English language” by Stephen King. Four years later, he released his breakthrough work, The Great God Pan. In 1890, Machen began publishing short stories in literary magazines. Born in 1863, Machen burst onto the London literary scene in 1890 with the controversial novella 'The Great God Pan.' He was briefly considered one of the luminaries of the Decadent movement before falling into obscurity and experiencing a literary rebirth toward the end of his life. He grew up with intentions of becoming a doctor, but followed a boyhood passion of the supernatural and occult and started to write. ![]() ![]() Arthur Machen (1863–1947) was a Welsh author and actor best known for his fantasy and horror fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They pray for rescue - but when the food starts running out it becomes clear that the jailers have also become the jailed. ![]() Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls, forced to wear strange uniforms, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious armed jailers and a 'nurse'.The girls all have something in common, but what is it? What crime has brought them here from the city? Who is the mysterious security company responsible for this desolate place with its brutal rules, its total isolation from the contemporary world?Doing hard labour under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. You need to know what you are.'Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. He says, almost in sympathy, 'Oh, sweetie. ![]() She hears her own thick voice deep inside her ears when she says, 'I need to know where I am.' The man stands there, tall and narrow, hand still on the doorknob, surprised. ![]() ![]() These six fight fear and death in a quest through time and space interwoven with the most ancient myths of the islands of Britain-until, at last, Will and Bran find the weapon that will ultimately vanquish the Dark. Soon Will is swept up in the great battle, along with his ageless master, Merriman the three Drew children, who are mortal but have their own vital part to play and a strange boy named Bran. He finds that he is no ordinary boy, but the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping mankind free from the Dark. Will Stanton's ordinary life is shattered with the dreadful revelation that the Dark-the source of all evil-is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. ![]() The complete Dark Is Rising Sequence is now available as one keepsake collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() As young Monster learns from Mother, she also discovers her own desires, realising that she wants very different things to the woman who made, but did not create, her. Changing her own name to Mother, Monster names the child after herself. Until, one day, she finds a girl: feral, and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. ![]() Preface: After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the arctic vault which has kept her alive. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1909 he gave up his musical career for good when he entered the law faculty at Moscow University. Three finished piano pieces composed by the young poet have survived from these years.Īlthough everyone assumed that Pasternak would become a professional musician, he was wary of his lack of technical skill. ![]() Inspired by the composer Alexander Scriabin, who was a friend of the family, Pasternak devoted six years to the study of composition. While he drew well, to the delight of his father, his first love was botany and second, music. ![]() In addition to his parents, Pasternak’s teachers were private tutors until he entered high school in 1901, where he received a classical education. His parents received constant visits from prominent Moscow writers, artists, and intellectuals, including, the yet unknown Rainer Maria Rilke in 1899, whose writing greatly influenced Pasternak. His father taught art at the school which essentially served as Pasternak’s childhood home. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, the oldest child of painter Leonid Pasternak and pianist Roza Kaufman, was born in Moscow on February 10, 1890. ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. 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