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UKIYOE Pictures of the floating world The floating world a transient realm of pleasures horrors and dreams Ukiyoe depictions of this shadowy projection of the human mind formed the mainstay of Japanese paintings and woodblock prints produced between the 17th and 20th centuries YOKAI Ghost apparition phantom spectre demon monster goblin Taking this definition to include mystic visions and mythic or monstrous beasts this book collects more than one hundred 19th century Japanese woodblock prints whose subject matter covers the entire spectrum of the supernatural and the outlandish The selection of works is also limited to the triptych format which gave ukiyoe artists the freedom to express their phantasies as narratives in a kinetic detailed image frame The work of over twenty different artists is featured spread over five different categories kaiju strange beasts yurei ghosts oni demons juryoku mystic forces and yojutsu black magic The book also has a special section for yakushae prints directly depicting supernatural scenes from the kabuki theatre
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UKIYOE Pictures of the floating world The floating world a transient realm of pleasures horrors and dreams Ukiyoe depictions of this shadowy projection of the human mind formed the mainstay of Japanese paintings and woodblock prints produced between the 17th and 20th centuries YOKAI Ghost apparition phantom spectre demon monster goblin Taking this definition to include mystic visions and mythic or monstrous beasts this book collects more than one hundred 19th century Japanese woodblock prints whose subject matter covers the entire spectrum of the supernatural and the outlandish The selection of works is also limited to the triptych format which gave ukiyoe artists the freedom to express their phantasies as narratives in a kinetic detailed image frame The work of over twenty different artists is featured spread over five different categories kaiju strange beasts yurei ghosts oni demons juryoku mystic forces and yojutsu black magic The book also has a special section for yakushae prints directly depicting supernatural scenes from the kabuki theatre
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Following on from her critically lauded 2013 album Crystal World Marnie continues to develop her very own take on a modern pop sound through the release of Strange Words And Weird Wars Comprised of ten pulsating tracks Strange Words And Weird Wars showcases the most impressive elements of Marnies incarnation as a solo artist along with those that made her band Ladytron one of the most respected pioneers in electronic music soul crushing synths are wonderfully accented by hookladen chorus
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Find tips, reviews, and features on The Weird A Compendium of sold for 22.46 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries Together these stories form The Weird and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twentyfirst century literature Exotic and esoteric The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities You wont find any elves or wizards herebut you will find the biggest boldest and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled The Weird features 110 stories by an allstar cast from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners including William Gibson George R R Martin Stephen King Angela Carter Kelly Link Franz Kafka China Miéville Clive Barker Haruki Murakami M R James Neil Gaiman Mervyn Peake and Michael ChabonThe Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
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Its been said that if you want a friend at the White House get a dog Or we might add perhaps a cat bird bear or maybe an alligator Throughout Americas history the presidential menagerie has included an array of creatures both big and small ordinary and absurdThis inside look at the White Houses animal residents features a rollicking rhyming verse for each commanderinchiefs pets accompnied by cool facts presidential stats and laughoutloud cartoon art John Quincy Adams kept an alligator in the bathtub while Thomas Jeffersons pride and joy was his pair of bear cubs Andrew Jackson had a pottymouthed parrot and Martin Van Buren got into a fight with Congress over his tow baby tigers First daughter Caroline Kennedys pony Macaroni had free riegn over the White House But the petowningwinner of all the presidents was Theodore Roosevelt who had a hyena lion zebra badger snake rats a nippy dog that bit the French ambassador and more
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The collected supernatural tales of a famous literary priestRobert Hugh Benson was one of the three famous literary Benson Brothers who in addition to their other occupations developed a taste for penning stories of the ghostly and weird Born in 1871 one of six siblings and the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury R H Bensons ghostly fiction has certainly taken together with the comparable work of brother A C Benson a subordinate place to the considerable cannon of work in the genre produced by a third brother E F Benson who was also a wellregarded author of other works including the humorous Mapp and Lucia stories of uppermiddle class oneupmanship Robert Benson was originally ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1895 but unusually became a Catholic priest in 1904 He nevertheless continued to write prolifically on a number of subjects which included religious matters works of historical fiction and childrens stories Particularly highly regarded was Lord of the World 1907 which is considered to be the first modern dystopian novel His supernatural fiction which despite its comparative obscurity is well worth the time of aficionados of the golden age of the genre was principally gathered in two collections The Light Invisible and A Mirror of Shallot Selected stories have previously been combined with those of A C Benson in single volumes but Leonaur has elected to publish the collected supernatural fiction of the brothers individually as they undoubtedly merit Robert Benson died in 1914 aged 42 years of pneumoniaLeonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands
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The world God made is full of weird strange slimy creepy crawly creatures and kids love it This book highlights the uniqueness of these critters and why God made them the way he did Kids will love the amazing animal tales about slimy slugs leaping lizards and nearly 120 more animals and plants
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Weird Dinosaurs The Strange New sold at 20.33 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar the awardwinning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron an aquatic crocodilesnouted carnivore bigger than T rex that once lurked in North African waterways a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska Siberia Canada Burma and South Africa Why did dinosaurs grow so huge How did they spread across the world Did they all have feathers What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies that are radically transforming our understanding of the distant past Pickrell opens a vivid portal to a brandnew age of fossil discovery in which fossil hunters are routinely redefining what we know and how we think about prehistorys most iconic and fascinating creatures
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Black Dog amp Leventhals bestselling Encyclopedia of the Bizarre is now available in a handier more reasonably priced edition that retains every word and image of the original From stupefying stunts to wacky worlds records all of Ripleys riveting findings are here in an easytobrowse impossibletoputdown color volume Where else could you learn that Its estimated that 10000000000000000000 000000000000000 snowflakes have fallen to the Earth since the Earth was formed Queen Isabeau of Bavaria used a mixture of boars brains crocodile glands and wolf blood as skin lotion Anna Bread married John Butter in Leeds England April 22 1926 Phil Turco of Madison Wisconsin swallowed 339 goldfish in two hours Bizarre and amazing categories include Accidents and Disasters Animals and Insects Archaeology Feats and Stunts Prophecies Records the Unexplained and more Its fascinating fun for the whole family
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From the worlds smartest animals to Easter Islands mystery learn about the strangest facts that have shaped history More than 130 stories features tales of hoaxes suspicious deaths paranormal encounters and impossible truthsText is conventionally broken into nine chapters including Matters of Life and Death War and Peace and You Are What You Eat272 pages
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The most controversial and infamous British fanzine of the 1980s SHEER FILTH returns in book form from FAB Press bigger bolder and filthier than everPublished between 1987 and 1990 SHEER FILTH offered a heady mix of sleazy sexy shocking film and book reviews wild music coverage weird cartoons incisive features and extraordinary interviews with legends of cult cinema and adult entertainment Mixing serious analysis with wild enthusiasm SHEER FILTH covered the stuff that other fanzines ignored everything from XXXrated cinema to true crime novels from sleazy rock n roll to experimental movies and from pulp fiction to cuttingedge artProduced under the constant risk of prosecution under the UKs Obscene Publications Act SHEER FILTH defiantly stood its ground in Thatchers repressed Britain bringing the world the first coverage of Jorg Buttgereits Nekromantik cult classic Death Bed The Bed That Eats Psychic TVs extraordinary First Transmission and much more long before those films became mythical mustsees and included interviews with legends like exploitation kingpin David F Friedman cult movie icon Johnny Legend and goremeister Herschell Gordon LewisEditor David Flint cofounded Headpress and under his guidance SHEER FILTH was the proving ground for aspiring journalists and authors who would go on to write for Ungawa Divinity Shock Xpress Skin Two and Penthouse SHEER FILTH ran for 9 groundbreaking issues At long last this 10th edition gathers together most of the original contents remixed and remastered for a new generation and also includes plenty of sensational previously unseen materialFans of horror sleaze exploitation adult underground and cult entertainment rejoice The Filth is back
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Strange Universe The Weird and sold at 23.91 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Touches on a dizzying array of subjects including UV rays inert gases fossils meteorites microwaves rainbows Like many a good teacher Berman uses humor to entertain his audience and liven things up Los Angeles Times Bob Berman is motivated by a straightforward philosophy everyone can understand scienceand its fun too In Strange Universe he pokes into the bizarre and astonishingly true scientific facts that determine the world around us Geared to the nonscientist Bermans original essays are filled with the trademark wit and cleverness that has earned him acclaim over many years for his columns in Astronomy and Discover magazines He emphasizes curiosities of the natural world to which everyone can relate and dishes on the littleknown secrets about space and some of sciences biggest blunders including a very embarrassing moment from Buzz Aldrins trip to the moon Fascinating to anyone interested in the wonders of our world and the cosmos beyond Strange Universe will make you smile and think
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Strange but True is an eyepopping collection of extreme unusual and cryptic animals places and phenomena Encounter mouseeating plants enter the cave of 20 million bats dip a toe in a rainbowcolored river discover zombie snails frozen frogs and volcanic lightning and meet snakes that can eat alligators or antelopesIn Strange But True fast facts panels on each spread provide background to the main subject or details of related cases in a strippeddown and engaging style while the infographic spreads in each section offer even more weird facts and stories while debunking popular strangebutuntrue mythsBursting with eccentric animals peculiar weather and unusual places Strange But True brings the weird and wonderful to life with vivid jawdropping illustrations amazing facts and clear scientific explanations satisfying the curiosities of even the most precocious kids
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Remember Socks Who didnt love Barney Well sure miss Bo Who will the next Presidential Pet be nbsp New in paperback Did you know that John Quincy Adams kept an alligator in the bathtub while Thomas Jeffersons pride and joy was his pair of bear cubs Andrew Jackson had a pottymouthed parrot and Martin Van Buren got into a fight with Congress over his two baby tigers Find out all about the weird wacky little big scary strange animals that have lived in the White House Perfect for election year collections and displays Pair with White House Kids for double the White House shenanigans
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A primer for those who want to learn more about our weird heritage This comprehensive and entertaining collection of bizarre tales was gathered from newspaper accounts participant observations and personal interviews Readers will learn about a Seattle mans contact with a group of aliens that landed in Ballard ponder the claims of two Washington men that Elvis was an extraterrestrial breeding experiment hear about an Oregonians extended discussion with Bigfoot explore Northwest cattle mutilations attend a support group for UFO abductees in Federal Way visit two haunted restaurants and meet a woman who saw a giant shrimp in her basement
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From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries Together these stories form The Weird and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twentyfirst century literature Exotic and esoteric The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities You wont find any elves or wizards herebut you will find the biggest boldest and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled The Weird features 110 stories by an allstar cast from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners including William Gibson George R R Martin Stephen King Angela Carter Kelly Link Franz Kafka China Miéville Clive Barker Haruki Murakami M R James Neil Gaiman Mervyn Peake and Michael ChabonThe Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
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Who do you call when things are coming out of your dreams and trying to kill you Or when your daughter is cursing in Latin and walking like a spider Or when your dog keeps screaming at you to strangle your neighbors Doctor Strange of course Hes the only person standing between us and the forces of darkness but has he been paying his tab Every act of magic has a cost and Jason Aaron THOR ORIGINAL SIN and Chris Bachalo UNCANNY XMEN are going to put Stephen Strange through hell to even the scalesCOLLECTING DOCTOR STRANGE 15
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At the edge of the known world demons monsters and baffling phenomena abound To help you navigate this mysteryshrouded realm where the supernatural mingles with the paranormal frightguides Maberry and Kramer present The Cryptopedia It divides theotherworldly into chapters from angels to poltergeists to UFOs and more The authors decode occult symbols demystify the art of fortunetelling and discuss the myriad strange and bizarre forces at work in the Larger WorldFrom publisher description
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