Fever Dreams and Disturbing Visions
Author: Rick Carufel
Publisher: Booktango
Published: 2012-07-04
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1468909568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of strange and disturbing tales written over the past decade.
Author: Rick Carufel
Publisher: Booktango
Published: 2012-07-04
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1468909568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of strange and disturbing tales written over the past decade.
Author: A. J. Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 9781973153733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The heat of a fever isn't enough to sterilize my mind. The chills aren't enough to shake off the sickness that plagues me. As I sweat, toss and turn at night, my body is fighting a foreign invader. Meanwhile my mind melts into a a world of its own creation. A few dark fantasies that I cannot keep to myself. These stories must be told. Spread, like a virus.
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-01-10
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0399184619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.
Author: David Grace
Publisher: David Grace
Published: 2009-10-06
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1452386935
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Raphael LaFontaine's parents were "root workers," hoodoo practitioners who sold potions, infusions, vapors and spells in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. Both before and while she was pregnant with Raphael, Malina LaFontaine ingested the herbs and roots that were her and her husband's stock and trade. Perhaps as a result of this, from early childhood Raphael was afflicted with strange visions and fever dreams. He grew up considering himself a freak masquerading as a normal person, but his spells sometimes allowed him to see deeply into other people's emotions and personalities. Both a curse and a gift, these talents have served Rafe well, first as a Baltimore police officer and then as private detective. The story begins with a frayed-at-the-edges lawyer who asks Rafe to help his client with a simple matter, a hard to get rid of ex-boyfriend who also happens to be a Baltimore cop. When Rafe sets out to meet his new client he is attacked and when he wakes up he finds that nothing is what it had seemed, and that he is suspected of murdering a complete stranger. Rafe soon becomes even more deeply entangled in a confusing web of lies and murder.
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0399184597
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Author: Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont
Publisher:
Published: 1855
Total Pages: 574
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Publisher:
Published: 1853
Total Pages: 572
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Deirdre Barrett
Publisher: Oneiroi Press
Published: 2020-06-12
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780982869536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This fascinating little volume explores the stuff that dreams are made of and the role the pandemic is playing in them. The dreams from Barrett's survey are riveting vignettes--from terrifying to touching to hilarious. Her decades of scientific research and clinical practice inform incisive commentary on what these dreams reveal about society's response. She offers simple exercises for managing anxieties over COVID-19 and for inspiring adaption in this unique period of history. A great read!" -Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club DREAM: I looked down at my stomach and saw dark blue stripes. I "remembered" these were the first sign of being infected with COVID-19. DREAM: My home was a Covid-19 test center. People weren't wearing masks. I'm taken aback because I wasn't asked to be a test site. I'm worried that my husband and son (who actually lives out of state) will catch it because of my job as a healthcare worker. DREAM: I was a giant antibody. I was so angry about COVID-19 that it gave me superpowers, and I rampaged around attacking all the virus I could find. I woke so energized! Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept around the world, people have reported unusually a vivid and bizarre dream lives. The virus itself is the star of many--literally or in one of its metaphoric guises. As a dream researcher at Harvard Medical School, Deirdre Barrett was immediately curious to see what our dream lives would tell us about our deepest reactions to this unprecedented disaster. Pandemic Dreams draws on her survey of over 9,000 dreams about the COVID-19 crisis. It describes how dreaming has reflected each aspect of the pandemic: fear of catching the virus, reactions to sheltering at home, work changes, homeschooling, and an individual's increased isolation or crowding. Some patterns are quite similar to other crises Dr. Barrett has studied such as 9/11, Kuwaitis during the Iraqi Occupation, POWs in WWII Nazi prison camps, and Middle Easterners during the Arab Spring. There are some very distinctive metaphors for COVID-19, however: bug-attack dreams and ones of invisible monsters. These reflect that this crisis is less visible or concrete than others we have faced. Over the past three months, dreams have progressed from fearful depictions of the mysterious new threat . . . to impatience with restrictions . . . to more fear again as the world begins to reopen. And dreams have just begun to consider the big picture: how society may change. The book offers guidance on how we can best utilize our newly supercharged dream lives to aid us through the crisis and beyond. It explains practical exercises for dream interpretation, reduction of nightmares, and incubation of helpful, problem-solving dreams. It also examines the larger arena of what these collective dreams tell us about our instinctive, unconscious responses to the threat and how we might integrate them for more livable policies through these times. Deirdre Barrett, PhD is a dream researcher at Harvard Medical School. She has written five books including Pandemic Dreams and The Committee of Sleep, and edited four including Trauma and Dreams. She is Past President of The International Association for the Study of Dreams and editor of its journal, DREAMING.
Author: Alexandre Jacques Francois Brierre de Boismont
Publisher:
Published: 1853
Total Pages: 570
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