Panorama of Hell
Author: Hideshi Hino
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780922233007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hideshi Hino
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780922233007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hideshi Hino
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Created by the manga master who created Panorama,of Hell, this equally unsettling graphic novel is,set in Tokyo. During a fierce storm, a mother,gives birth to a twin girls: one normal, one a,demon baby with a taste for blood - a hell baby.,Tossed into a garbage dump, she dies in the,plastic bag but is brought back to life by an,unworldly bolt of lightning. For seven years she,leads a feral life before returning to the city,where she applies her hard-earned hunting,techniques for survival and revenge. Pure horror.
Author: Hideshi Hino
Publisher: DH Publishing
Published: 2004-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780974596198
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part 2 of the semi-autobiography of a lonely boy whose escape from his family's madness is his collection of pickled animal and human body parts.
Author: Edogawa Ranpo
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0824837274
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchant for the grotesque and the bizarre to explore the boundaries of conventional thought. Best known as the founder of the modern Japanese detective novel, Ranpo wrote for a youthful audience, and a taste for playacting and theatre animates his stories. His writing is often associated with the era of ero guro nansense (erotic grotesque nonsense), which accompanied the rise of mass culture and mass media in urban Japan in the 1920s. Characterized by an almost lurid fascination with simulacra and illusion, the era’s sensibility permeates Ranpo's first major work and one of his finest achievements, Strange Tale of Panorama Island (Panoramato kidan), published in 1926. Ranpo’s panorama island is filled with cleverly designed optical illusions: a staircase rises into the sky; white feathered “birds” speak in women’s voices and offer to serve as vehicles; clusters of naked men and women romp on slopes carpeted with rainbow-colored flowers. His fantastical utopia is filled with entrancing music and strange sweet odors, and nothing is ordinary, predictable, or boring. The novella reflected the new culture of mechanically produced simulated realities (movies, photographs, advertisements, stereoscopic and panoramic images) and focused on themes of the doppelganger and appropriated identities: its main character steals the identity of an acquaintance. The novella’s utopian vision, argues translator Elaine Gerbert, mirrors the expansionist dreams that fed Japan's colonization of the Asian continent, its ending an eerie harbinger of the collapse of those dreams. Today just as a new generation of technologies is transforming the way we think—and becoming ever more invasive and pervasive—Ranpo's work is attracting a new generation of readers. In the past few decades his writing has inspired films, anime, plays, and manga, and many translations of his stories, essays, and novels have appeared, but to date no English-language translation of Panoramato kidan has been available. This volume, which includes a critical introduction and notes, fills that gap and uncovers for English-language readers an important new dimension of an ever stimulating, provocative talent.
Author: Leonard V. Smith
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1603446753
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Author: Raymond Borde
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780872864122
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.
Author: Dominic Sandbrook
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1400077249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in 1976’s hit film Network, struck a chord with a generation of Americans. In this colourful new history, Dominic Sandbrook ranges seamlessly over the political, economic, and cultural high (and low) points of American life in the 1970s, exploring the roots of the fears, resentments, cravings, and disappointments we know so well today. From Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to Anita Bryant and Jerry Falwell, he shows how the 1970s saw the emergence of a new right-wing populism, setting the stage for the bitter partisanship and near-total cynicism of our modern political landscape.
Author: Tillie Walden
Publisher: First Second
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1250754445
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The graphic novel Are You Listening? is an intimate and emotionally soaring story about friendship, grief, and healing from Eisner Award winner Tillie Walden. Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey through West Texas, where strange things follow them wherever they go. The landscape morphs into an unsettling world, a mysterious cat joins them, and they are haunted by a group of threatening men. To stay safe, Bea and Lou must trust each other as they are driven to confront buried truths. The two women share their stories of loss and heartbreak—and a startling revelation about sexual assault—culminating in an exquisite example of human connection. This magical realistic adventure from the celebrated comics creator of Spinning and On a Sunbeam will stay with readers long after the final gorgeously illustrated page. 2020 Eisner Award Winner, Best Graphic Album--New A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2019 A National Public Radio (NPR) Best Book of 2019 An O Magazine Best LGBTQ Book of 2019 One of The Comics Beat's Best Comics of 2019 A Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Author: Hideshi Hino
Publisher: cocoro books
Published: 2004-08
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781932897012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Yuki and friends discover a corpse reflected in the bathroom mirror at school, they believe it to be a joke. However, gruesome events unfold that will lead them to regret they were ever so foolish. Other stories include a girl whose beauty makes her the victim of a terror campaign, another who is bullied by a teacher, but in death achieves her revenge. Penned by the undisputed Japanese master of horror manga, this work appears here translated into English for the first time.