[PDF] The Whistling Man eBook

Author : Will Savive
Publisher : Whistling Man
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578869230

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The lone survivor of the Pavoso massacre, Laurie, becomes a liability to the Venezuelan government that will go to great lengths to keep the true nature of the incident a secret. Laurie must escape imprisonment and travel many miles to get to those who can help her realize her true powers, or humanity will be forever lost. Meanwhile, The Whistling Man's "true identity" is discovered. We also learn that the beast has a destiny of his own-to raise the army of the dead and devour earth, as written in the secret scrolls held by the Vatican in Rome. Can Laurie realize her true potential and save the foretold apocalyptic events before it's too late?

Author : Will Savive
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2021-11-24
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ISBN : 9781737486527

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Harry is an aloof trust-fund baby who is struggling to create a meaningful legacy. He enlists the help of his best friend, a successful environmental engineer (and their significant others), to help him restore a possibly lucrative property that he recently purchased. However, The group fails to heed the warnings from locals that the land is terrorized by a very menacing presence. When night falls, can they survive the onslaught of this fearsome whistling human predator who collects the bones of his victims?

Author : William Hope Hodgson
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781500609023

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" The Whistling Room" is a short story by William Hope Hodgson. William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 - April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the "Sargasso Sea Mythos." His novels such as The Night Land and The House on the Borderland feature more cosmic themes, but several of his novels also focus on horrors associated with the sea. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I at the age of 40. In 1899, at the age of 22, he opened W. H. Hodgson's School of Physical Culture, in Blackburn, England, offering tailored exercise regimes for personal training. Among his customers were members of the Blackburn police force. In 1902, Hodgson himself appeared on stage with handcuffs and other restraining devices supplied by the Blackburn police department and applied the restraints to Harry Houdini, who had previously escaped from the Blackburn jail. His behavior towards Houdini generated controversy; the escape artist had some difficulty removing his restraints, complaining that Hodgson had deliberately injured him and jammed the locks of his handcuffs. Hodgson was not shy of publicity, and in another notable stunt, rode a bicycle down a street so steep that it had stairs, an event written up in the local paper. Despite his reputation, he eventually found that he could not earn a living running his personal training business, which was seasonal in nature, and shut it down. He began instead writing articles such as "Physical Culture versus Recreative Exercises" (published in 1903). One of these articles, "Health from Scientific Exercise," featured photographs of Hodgson himself demonstrating his exercises. The market for such articles seemed to be limited, however; so, inspired by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle, Hodgson turned his attention to fiction, publishing his first short story, "The Goddess of Death," in 1904, followed shortly by "A Tropical Horror." He also contributed to an article in The Grand Magazine, taking the "No" side in a debate on the topic "Is the Mercantile Navy Worth Joining?" In this piece, Hodgson laid out in detail his negative experiences at sea, including facts and figures about salaries. This led to a second article in The Nautical Magazine, an expose on the subject of apprenticeships; at the time, families often were forced to pay to have boys accepted as apprentices. Hodgson began to give paid lectures, illustrated with his photography in the form of colorized slides, about his experiences at sea. Although he wrote a number of poems, only a handful were published during his lifetime; several, such as "Madre Mia," appeared as dedications to his novels. Apparently cynical about the prospects of publishing his poetry, in 1906 he published an article in The Author magazine, suggesting that poets could earn money by writing inscriptions for tombstones. Many of his poems were published by his widow in two posthumous collections, but some 48 poems were not published until their appearance in the 2005 collection The Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson.

Author : Lewis Nordan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2003-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 156512913X

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ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In WOLF WHISTLE, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder. Soon we're on a magical mystery tour of the Southern psyche of the mid-1950s and the dawning of guilt and recognition in a whole generation of white Southerners. "An immense and wall-shattering display of talent. WOLF WHISTLE will help usher Lewis Nordan into the Hall of Fame of American Letters."--Randall Kenan, The Nation.

Author : Claude Steele
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0393339726

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Examines the role of what the author calls identity contingencies in the lives of individuals and in society as a whole, focusing on stereotype threat, arguing that people who believe they may be judged based on a bad stereotype do not perform as well, and showing how to overcome the problem.

Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2006
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0151012377

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The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in unexpected ways has all the charm of old-school storytelling, from Dickens to Laura Ingalls Wilder.