Horror In The Age Of Steam
DOWNLOAD
Download Horror In The Age Of Steam PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Horror In The Age Of Steam book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Horror In The Age Of Steam
DOWNLOAD
Author : Carroll Clayton Savant
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Horror In The Age Of Steam written by Carroll Clayton Savant and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Change is terrifying, and rapid change, within a small amount of time, is destabilizing to any culture. England, under the tutelage of Queen Victoria, witnessed precipitous change the likes of which it had not encountered in generations. Wholesale swaths of the economy and the social structure underwent complete recalibration, through the hands of economic progress, industrial innovation, scientific discovery, and social cohesiveness. Faced with such change, Britons had to redefine the concept of work, belief, and even what it meant to be English. Victorians relied on many methods to attempt to release the steam from the anxieties incurred through change, and one of those methods was the horror story of everyday existence during an age of transition. This book is a study of how authors Elizabeth Gaskell, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë turned to horrifying representations of everyday reality to illustrate the psychological-traumatic terrors of an age of transition
Steampunk Cthulhu
DOWNLOAD
Author : Brian M. Sammons
language : en
Publisher: Chaosium Fiction Series
Release Date : 2014-06-17
Steampunk Cthulhu written by Brian M. Sammons and has been published by Chaosium Fiction Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-17 with categories.
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." So said H.P. Lovecraft in the first chapter of his most famous story, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926). This is also the perfect introduction to Steampunk Cthulhu, for within these stories mankind has indeed voyaged too far, and scientific innovations have opened terrifying vistas of reality, with insanity and worse as the only reward. The Steampunk genre has always incorporated elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror and alternative history, and certainly the Cthulhu Mythos has not been a stranger to Steampunk. But until now there has never been a Steampunk Cthulhu collection, so here are 18 tales unbound from the tethers of mere airships, goggles, clockwork, and tightly bound corsets; stories of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and alternative realities tainted with the Lovecraftian and the Cthulhu Mythos. Here you will discover Victorian Britain, the Wild West era United States, and many other varied locations filled with anachronistic and sometimes alien technology, airships, submersibles and Babbage engines. But the Victorian era here is not only one of innovation and exploration, but of destruction and dread.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Steam Age Gothic
DOWNLOAD
Author : Clive Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-03
The Palgrave Handbook Of Steam Age Gothic written by Clive Bloom and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-03 with Social Science categories.
By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
Dead Iron
DOWNLOAD
Author : Devon Monk
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Dead Iron written by Devon Monk and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with Fiction categories.
Welcome to a new America that is built on blood, sweat, and gears... In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy and carrying the guilt of his brother's death. Then he's offered hope that his brother may yet survive. All he has to do is find the Holder: a powerful device created by mad devisers-and now in the hands of an ancient Strange who was banished to walk this Earth. In a land shaped by magic, steam, and iron, where the only things a man can count on are his guns, gears, and grit, Cedar will have to depend on all three if he's going to save his brother and reclaim his soul once and for all...
The Golden Age Of Steam
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Pudney
language : en
Publisher: London : Hamish Hamilton
Release Date : 1967
The Golden Age Of Steam written by John Pudney and has been published by London : Hamish Hamilton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Automobiles, Steam categories.
Tin Swift
DOWNLOAD
Author : Devon Monk
language : en
Publisher: ROC Hardcover
Release Date : 2012
Tin Swift written by Devon Monk and has been published by ROC Hardcover this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
Steam Age era bounty hunter and werewolf Cedar Hunt tries to keep his word to the Madder brothers by keeping his companions alive while he hunts a powerful weapon called the Holder. 35,000 first printing.
History As Fantasy In Music Sound Image And Media
DOWNLOAD
Author : James Cook
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-04-11
History As Fantasy In Music Sound Image And Media written by James Cook and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-11 with Music categories.
Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past. The volume brings together essays from multidisciplinary perspectives, addressing the use of music to convey a sense of the past in a wide range of multimedia contexts, including television, documentaries, opera, musical theatre, contemporary and historical film, videogames, and virtual reality. With a focus on early music and medievalism, the contributors theorise the role of music and sound in constructing ideas of the past. In three interrelated sections, the chapters problematise notions of historical authenticity on the stage and screen; theorise the future of musical histories in immersive and virtual media; and explore sound’s role in more fantastical appropriations of history in television and videogames. Together, they pose provocative questions regarding our perceptions of ‘early’ music and the sensory experience of distant history. Offering new ways to understand the past at the crossroads of musical and visual culture, this collection is relevant to researchers across music, media, and historical and cultural studies.
Vampires On The Silent Screen
DOWNLOAD
Author : David Annwn Jones
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-10-17
Vampires On The Silent Screen written by David Annwn Jones and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-17 with Fiction categories.
This book is the first study of the vampires in silent cinema, presenting a detailed academic yet accessible discussion of the films themselves and their sources. For the very first time, The Fire Elemental from the Wharton brothers’ The Mysteries of Myra (1916) is identified as cinema’s original vampire, his appearance initiating a rich and variegated period of film production that is currently missing from studies of horror cinema. Exciting and ground-breaking, Vampires on the Silent Screen also discusses Drakula Halála / Dracula’s death (1920), the first ever filmic female vampire in Erich Kober’s Lilith and Ly (1919), and the Dracula lookalike, Count Merlin in Alexander Korda’s Magic (1917) as well as many other productions. A socio-cultural framework with critical highlighting of eco-horror theory is used throughout to draw these unique discoveries together. This project is a must read for any horror enthusiasts out there.
Steam Powered Dream Engines
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rogue Planet Press
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018
Steam Powered Dream Engines written by Rogue Planet Press and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Steampunk fiction categories.
Book Of Heroic Races
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jon Brazer Enterprises
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-02-14
Book Of Heroic Races written by Jon Brazer Enterprises and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-14 with categories.
Heroes Assemble! From the seas below to the skies above, from the land to the stars, heroes are all around us, and they come in many different forms. Now you can go beyond the common races and play a member of these 12 imaginative races in your game. Delve into each race's culture and see the world from their unique point of view. Play a character that you have always dreamed of playing, with all-new specific character options tailored to each race's flavor. Expand your horizons and your gaming experience with these Advanced Races today! The Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Compendium is the essential guide for playing untold numbers of characters. This 252-page supplement features: Racial Traits to play 12 different races, plus 60 Alternate Racial Traits and 49 Character Traits to customize your character for your desired unique play experience 125 New Character Class Options, including archetypes, sorcerer and bloodrager bloodlines, oracle mysteries and shaman spirits, cavalier orders, cleric domains and subdomains, rogue talents, alchemist discoveries, familiars and animal companions, time thief temporal talents, soulknife blade skills, and much more 93 New Feats, including martial arts styles, metamagic feats, combat feats, and feats to enhance your chosen racial traits 84 New Magic Items, Mundane Items, and Technological Items 61 New Spells and Psionic Powers 23 New Deities and Philosophies, reflecting the unique viewpoints and values of each race Details for crafting your unique adventurer, as well as suggestions for GMs on how to incorporate each of these races into your campaign world Be Heroic With These Advanced Races Today!