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  • The Midnight Ghost - In The Haunted Castle
    Master Samarth Nair
    This book is a suspense thriller where four detectives work together to solve a mysterious case. The story unfolds in a dramatic and unpredictable manner. The entire fiction is skillfully portrayed in 14 chapters, each of which concludes with an unexpected twist that sparks the reader’s curiosity. The characters in the story display optimism and tackle every obstacle with a pos...
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    7,11 €

  • Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard
    Carolyn Lau
    In dialogue with posthuman thought, this book argues that Ballard’s fiction affirms the expansive powers of the human body to create openings in the limited present. This book also positions the transgressive private mythologies of Ballard’s characters as strategies of survival and endurance in surrealist everyday catastrophes. ...
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    241,14 €

  • Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in Historical Crime Fiction
    Anthony Lake
    This book is the first book-length academic study of historical crime fiction that explores Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The novels discussed are located at the intersection of crime fiction and Holocaust Literature. The book discusses questions of form and genre, and explores the possibilities of justice after the Holocaust ...
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    241,18 €

  • On The Origin Of Paranormal Species
    Amy Laurens
    Why do werewolves transform with the moon? When did mermaids get their tails? What sinister history underpins the goblin? Uncover the answers to these questions - and more! - in this collection of seven essays from award-winning author Amy Laurens. First published in the critically acclaimed Aurealis magazine, these essays explore the mythological basis of seven of the most pop...
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    11,13 €

  • The Dark City Murders
    Mark Davie
    In 'The Dark City Murders: A Detective’s Race Against Time,' Detective James Monroe takes readers on a gripping journey through the investigation of one of the most heinous crimes in the city’s history.When a string of murders rocks the city, Detective Monroe is tasked with leading the investigation. As the body count rises, Monroe and his team race against time to identify the...
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    22,63 €

  • The Detective Novel
    S. S. Van Dine
    Delve into the intricate world of the crime fiction genre as S. S. Van Dine provides an in-depth analysis and critique of what makes a great detective story. In this essay, S. S. Van Dine examines the various elements that make a brilliant detective novel, including plot, characterisation, and setting. Exploring the works of famous detective novelists such as Edgar Allan Poe,...
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    17,23 €

  • Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834
    Sam Hirst
    Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican. ...
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    158,32 €

  • The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe
    Jessica Slayton / Tony Magistrale
    An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day ...
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    50,28 €

  • Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin
    Thomas Honegger
    'World-building, name-finding, language-crafting; the flaws in chivalric practice, and the ethics (Machiavellian and otherwise) that produce the moral complexities of Middle-earth and the Known World are thus the topics that Tweaking Things a Little considers. The modest title belies what lies within these covers: nimble readings, profound knowledge of the medieval world, origi...
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    52,44 €

  • The Last Stroke A Detective Story
    Lynch Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Lynch has authored a gripping book titled 'The Last Stroke: A Detective Story'. The mystery murder at the core of the tale shocks the sleepy, unassuming neighborhood. Everyone is on edge when a well-known person is the victim of a terrible murder, which starts a sequence of events. Here comes the seasoned investigator, whose quick brain and intuition play a crucial ...
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    13,71 €

  • Disability and the Superhero
    Amber E. George
    This is a collection of essays that analyze the presence of ableism in superhero narratives from television shows, films, and comics. Contributors use critical disability studies, media studies, cultural studies, and other interdisciplinary fields to unveil the misinformation, stigma, and exclusion caused by ableist representations of disability or disability-related experie...
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    57,61 €

  • Nostalgia, una era imaginaria
    Gabriela Guerra Rey
    En el siglo VIII antes de Cristo, Ulises torció su destino aventurero para regresar a Ítaca obligado por un sentimiento: la nostalgia. En 1968, Johannes Hofer, un médico y no poeta, la tipificó como Le mal du pays: el dolor de los que están fuera de la patria. Desde entonces la nostalgia crea lenguajes, imagos, y se convierte en cosmogonía, en padecimiento contagioso que da ori...
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    10,35 €

  • Follow Me
    Francesca T Barbini
    Follow Me: Religion in Fantasy and Science Fiction is the seventh Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing.The papers focus on the theme of religion in fantasy and science fiction, in all its forms, in different media. Featuring papers from Ivano Sassanelli, Elyse Welles, Catherine Coundjeris, Barbara Stevenson, Eugen Bacon, Steph P Bianc...
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    22,17 €

  • Empire of Pain
    J.L. Beck
    Lies. Betrayal. Pain.Notorious arms dealer Callum Torrio will do whatever he has to do to get the woman he loves back.A war between the crime families is brewing, and if they aren’t careful, they’ll end up right in the middle of it.Forced into hiding, Callum knows he must do whatever he can to keep Bianca and their unborn baby safe. Loving her makes him vulnerable, but letting ...
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    15,26 €

  • Understanding Superhero Comic Books
    Alex Grand
    This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their eras, rising and falling with societal changes, and reflecting an amalgam of influences. The book covers in detail the iconic superhero comic book crea...
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    61,38 €

  • War Comics
    Jeanne-Marie Viljoen
    This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. It explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem of representing trauma when language seems inadequate to describe our experiences. ...
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    73,33 €

  • Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature
    Carter F. Hanson
    This book examines utopian/dystopian fiction’s enduring preoccupation with memory, asserting through readings of seminal texts that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as vital sources of the utopian impulse. ...
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    73,39 €

  • Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film
    Kirk Combe
    Kirk Combe theorizes a new type of contemporary political satire: the Rant. Grim, imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres, the Rant targets the Regime-the dangerous social and economic orthodoxies of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. ...
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    73,46 €

  • The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary
    Kristin Flieger Samuelian
    This book explores how Romantic-era England conceptualized its relation to its constituent parts and the larger world through discussions of dancing and theories of dance and performance. As a referent that engaged and constructed the body dance worked to produce an English exceptional body. ...
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    73,54 €

  • Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction
    Anna Neill
    This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions--utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children’s fables-as responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860. ...
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    73,57 €

  • Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine
    Sathyaraj Venkatesan / Sweetha Saji
    This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence. ...
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    35,83 €

  • Ghostly Encounters
    This volume of critical essays meditates on the evidence and representation of the ghostlyin the visual, literary, and cultural imagination of Britain, Europe, America, and Asia fromthe nineteenth century to the contemporary. ...
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    73,62 €

  • Space(s) of the Fantastic
     In this book, we provide a a number of accounts, with examples, of how we might consider the Fantastic as a mode of writing with both historical depth and immediate contemporary relevance. ...
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    73,62 €

  • The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction
    Emily Cox-Palmer-White
    This work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. ...
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    73,65 €

  • Immigrants and Comics
    Nhora Lucía Serrano
    Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth century. ...
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    70,41 €

  • Suicide and the Gothic
    Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Poems, short stories, novels, films and video games are covered from European, American and Asian contexts. ...
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    35,89 €

  • Counterfactual Romanticism
    Damian Walford Davies
    Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory ...
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    38,24 €

  • A Tale Told by a Machine
    Heather Duerre Humann
    Intelligent machines have long existed in science fiction, and they now appear in mainstream films such as Bladerunner, Ex Machina, I Am Mother and Her, as well as in a recent proliferation of literary texts narrated from the machine’s perspective. These new portrayals of artificial intelligence inevitably foreground dilemmas related to identity and selfhood, concepts being ...
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    72,20 €

  • Personation Plots
    Clayton Carlyle Tarr
    Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.The first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifi...
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    42,03 €

  • J. F. Gonzalez’s Shadows in the Attic
    J. F. Gonzalez
    An Unfinished History of HorrorCome and dig beneath the cobwebs, under the dust and through the forgotten boxes with horror historian J. F. Gonzalez.Collecting non-fiction works from J.F. Gonzalez, Shadows in the Attic takes the reader from Ancient times to the mid-40’s weaving a tale of the history of horror-all the while discussing writers and stories that influenced, that ca...
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    27,96 €


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