Editorial: BookRix
A psychologist is confronted with a girl, who is being mentally harassed by a woman, whom she claims to be a witch. A daring story unfolds and the psychologist realizes, that the woman really is a witch and is keen on him being the next sacrifice for her Lord of nature. Please review this book, if you liked it!
The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the very talented French author Eugène Mouton.Ver libro
More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks Title: The Face Author: E. F. Benson Narrator: Jonathan Dunne Original Publication: 1923 Public Domain: Yes Series: Timeless Terrors Number: 114 Description: The Face is a chilling tale of art, obsession, and supernatural retribution. The story follows a talented but morally corrupt artist whose life is marked by selfishness and cruelty. When he encounters a subject whose presence unsettles him in ways he cannot explain, his carefully constructed world begins to fracture. What emerges is a haunting exploration of conscience, guilt, and the possibility that some wrongs leave marks deeper than any brushstroke can conceal. With mounting psychological tension and an atmosphere thick with unease, E. F. Benson crafts a story where horror arises not from distant cosmic forces, but from the inescapable reckoning of one’s own soul. Subtle, elegant, and deeply disturbing, The Face stands as a masterful example of Benson’s refined supernatural fiction. Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the quiet dread and moral intensity that define Benson’s distinctive brand of ghostly horror.Ver libro
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature . . ." —The New York Times Beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal, at ninety-five years old, is a national treasure. Working at the height of her powers, in this story collection she turns her gimlet eye and compassionate humor on aging and life in the slow lane. From the master of the short short comes a collection of sixteen new stories featuring old friends who have loved and lunched together for over forty years. These erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling insights into friendship, family and aging. Can the group organize a visit to one of their number in her new, and detested, assisted living situation? Is this a fabulous party with old friends, or a funeral reception? And does who was sleeping with whom, way back when, still matter? In story after story, Segal's voice is always hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound, keen and utterly unsentimental, as she tackles aging's affronts.Ver libro
Brought from Minnesota to Oregon as a mail-order bride, the new Mrs. Pearson has to face her husband's hostile family and find joy where she can.Ver libro
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Michael Angelo was essentially an artist, living in the prime of the Renaissance. Campanella was a philosopher, born when the Counter-Reformation was doing all it could to blight the free thought of the sixteenth century; and when the modern spirit of exact enquiry, in a few philosophical martyrs, was opening a new stage for European science. The one devoted all his mental energies to the realisation of beauty: the other strove to ascertain truth. The one clung to Ficino's dream of Platonising Christianity: the other constructed for himself a new theology, founded on the conception of God immanent in nature. Michael Angelo expressed the aspirations of a solitary life dedicated to the service of art, at a time when art received the suffrage and the admiration of all Italy. Campanella gave utterance to a spirit, exiled and isolated, misunderstood by those with whom he lived, at a moment when philosophy was hunted down as heresy and imprisoned as treason to the public weal.The marks of this difference in the external and internal circumstances of the two poets might be multiplied indefinitely. Yet they had much in common. Both stood above their age, and in a sense aloof from it. Both approached poetry in the spirit of thinkers bent upon extricating themselves from the trivialities of contemporary literature. The sonnets of both alike are contributions to philosophical poetry in an age when the Italians had lost their ancient manliness and energy. Both were united by the ties of study and affection to the greatest singer of their nation, Dante, at a time when Petrarch, thrice diluted and emasculated, was the Phoebus of academies and coteries.This common antagonism to the degenerate genius of Italian literature is the link which binds Michael Angelo, the veteran giant of the Renaissance, to Campanella, the audacious Titan of the modern age. - Summary by Prefatory note to this volumeVer libro
Step Carefully For The Night Is Dark Kylie Porter needs a break. Novacore VR's Eternal Night is it - the VR vampire game that her editor wants her to write about. But she's not a gamer, so she's going to have to learn to fake it for her article. With a little help. Johnathan Masters is that help. An old friend who is doing her a favour, he's a lot more confident and good looking in the game, even if they've both touched themselves up. But she's a professional and this is just a game. None of it's really real? Is it? First Steps into the Night is a Vampire LitRPG Short Story (approximately 10k long) written by Tao Wong, the author of the System Apocalypse, Hidden Wishes and A Thousand Li series. It is not a fade-to-black story, set in a VR vampire MMORPG.Ver libro
