Until one girl, El, starts to reveal its many mysteries, A Deadly Education is set in Scholomance, a school for magically gifted students where failure means certain death (for real).
There are no teachers, no holidays, and just a few strategic friendships exist. The school won’t let its students leave until they graduate… or die, thus survival is more crucial than any letter grade! Don’t roam the halls alone is one of the simple but misleading regulations. And watch out for the monsters that are everywhere. El is specially equipped to handle the risks at school. She might not have any pals, but she has a wicked power that can destroy millions and level mountains. El could defeat the monsters that haunt the campus with relative ease. The issue? The other pupils might all be killed by her potent evil magic.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I love having existential crises at bedtime, it’s so restful.”
“I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.”
“Was I starting to feel evil? Yes. Now I was worrying I’d be turned to the dark side by too much crochet.”
“Some sorcerers get an affinity for weather magic, or transformation spells, or fantastic combat magics like dear Orion. I got an affinity for mass destruction.”
“You have to ration sympathy and grief in here the way you ration school supplies.”
Nina Dean is now in her early thirties and has a new house and neighborhood in addition to adoring friends and family. She is also a popular culinary writer. It seems like everything is going according to plan when she meets Max, a seductive romantic hero who tells her on their first date that he wants to marry her.
Her thirties haven’t been the liberated, simple experience she was marketed; a new relationship couldn’t have arrived at a better time. She is always being told how quickly time is going by and how few opportunities remain. Ex-boyfriends are moving on, friendships are deteriorating, and, worst of all, everyone is relocating to the suburbs.
Her family, which includes a mother stuck in a perplexing midlife makeover and a devoted father who is slipping slowly into dementia, offers no relief. The debut book by Dolly Alderton is witty and sensitive, full of razor-sharp observations about relationships, families, memories, and modern life.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person’s hope. Leave it with me and I’ll look after it for a while , if it feels too heavy for now.”
“Being a heterosexual woman who loved men meant being a translator for their emotions, a palliative nurse for their pride and a hostage negotiator for their egos.”
“So much of the love you feel for a person is dependent on the vast archive of shared memories you can access just by seeing their face or hearing their voice.”
“I hated lateness. Being late is a selfish habit adopted by boring people in search of a personality quirk who can’t be bothered to take up an instrument”
“You have to take your chance, it’s not like you fall in love with someone every week. How arrogant are you, that you think you’re going to feel like this again about someone whenever you decide you’re ready, on your terms?”
What lengths would you take to protect your family? Milton Freeman saw his parents die tragically in a bizarre accident. Anything for their return was what he would have offered. Josh, his younger brother, is currently in danger of dying. He is the last of his family. To spare his brother’s life, he strikes a deal, but Milton is about to discover that some deals are better left unfinished. Something unimaginable is headed at him. An evil that, if he allows it, will take his soul.
Laura, Shadow’s wife, perishes in a tragic vehicle accident just days preceding his release from prison. He walks back to his house in a daze. He meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday on the plane, who introduces himself as the ruler of America, a former god, and a refugee from a far-off conflict.
Together, they set off on a deeply odd adventure across the center of the USA while a storm of supernatural and epic proportions rages all around them. American Gods is a chilling, engrossing, and profoundly unnerving film that probes deeply into the American psyche. You’ll be shocked by who and what it discovers there.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
“Even nothing cannot last forever.”
“There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.”
Three sections with a wide range of background information and sources are offered: Dracula may have drawn inspiration from earlier writings by James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard, among other contexts. Discussions on Stoker’s draughts of the book, as well as “Dracula’s Guest,” the original first chapter, are also featured. Five early reviews of the book are reproduced in Reviews and Reactions. The book “Dramatic and Film Variations” focuses on theatrical and cinematic Dracula adaptations, two signs of the book’s enduring popularity. Gregory A. Waller, Nina Auerbach, and David J. Skal each offer a unique viewpoint. There are listings of both dramatic and cinematic adaptations.
Seven theoretical analyses of Dracula by authors like Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer are collected in Criticism. Included are a Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
“We learn from failure, not from success!”
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
When House of Leaves was first circulated, it was nothing more than a haphazardly packaged pile of paper, bits of which would sporadically appear online. Nobody could have foreseen the little but devoted audience that this horrific tale would eventually amass. The book eventually found its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those oddly arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—it eventually made its way into the hands of younger readers.
This amazing book version of the work is now accessible for the first time, complete with newly added second and third appendices, unique colored text, and vertical footnotes. Unchanged from the original plot, the narrative centers on a young family who relocate to a modest house on Ash Tree Lane and soon realizes that something is gravely wrong: the house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Naturally, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his partner Karen Green was ready to deal with the fallout from that impossibility—that is, until one day their two young children started wandering off and their voices eerily started to return to another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind such a closet door, and that unrighteous growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it’s mine.”
“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
“I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I’m not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.”
The course of Jamie Carpenter’s life has changed forever. His mother is lost, his father is dead, and he was just saved by a monster by name of Frankenstein. Jamie is taken to Department 19, where he is recruited into a covert agency that was established more than a century ago by Abraham Van Helsing and the other Dracula survivors and is in charge of keeping the supernatural under control. Jamie must try to save his mother from a terrifyingly strong vampire with the help of Frankenstein’s monster, a gorgeous vampire girl with her own purpose, and the agency members.
From the cobblestone alleyways of Victorian London to prohibition-era New York, from the freezing wastes of Arctic Russia to the perilous mountains of Transylvania, Department 19 transports us across time and throughout Europe and beyond. It is filled with suspense, mayhem, and a level of intensity that makes a Darren Shan novel seem like a romantic comedy. It is a hybrid of a current thriller and a classic horror.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The exhausted men were dismissed and fled for the lifts,”
“sleep through the most beautiful part of the day,” said the chemist, a smile of pride on his face. “The darkness hides flaws, and sins; the moon illuminates only the delicate, and the elegant.”
James Franco, an actor, and artist of astounding talent has written a collection of violent and disturbing short stories about damaged teens and misfits in California. Palo Alto is the literary debut of a startling and potent new voice. James Franco’s collection follows the lives of a large group of young people as they explore vices of all kinds, contend with their families and one another, and give in to self-destructive, frequently heartless nihilism. It is written with an immediate sense of place that is claustrophobic and foreboding. In the movie “Lockheed,” a young woman’s boring internship-filled summer is abruptly turned upside down by a shockingly violent act at a house party.
In “American History,” a high school freshman tries to win a lady over by playing a realistic slave owner during a class drama, only to have his pretended racism avenged. A lonely youngster in “I Could Kill Someone” purchases a gun with the intention of killing his high school bully, but soon starts to question the bully’s own inner existence. These interconnected, sharp, colorful, and unsettling tales paint an engrossing picture of life on the periphery of childhood.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don’t know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other’s tapes and find out what each of us was really like.”
“This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.”
“Funny how new facts pop up and make you doubt that there’s any goodness in life. Everyone pretends to be normal and be your friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don’t know about…”
“I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief.”
“He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.”
The King in Yellow is a collection of 10 interconnected stories that explores the sorrow and madness that characters experience when they come into contact with the prohibited play, The King in Yellow. It is considered one of the best instances of Victorian-gothic horror. The King in Yellow, which was first published in 1895, has influenced numerous other authors of the horror genre, including H. P. Lovecraft. It is also mentioned in a number of fiction works, songs, and the popular television series True Detective, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. With the finest standards in ebook creation and a dedication to reading in all its forms, HarperPerennial Classics brings classic works of literature to life in digital form.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.”
“No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.”
“There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.”
“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts,”
“Come and see my rose-coloured bath full of death!”
This chilling addition to Alvin Schwartz’s well-known works on American folklore is rife with terrifying horror stories and tales of wicked retribution that will make you shudder. Everyone can relate to this tale of skeletons with torn and braided flesh roaming the land, a ghost seeking retribution from her murderer, and a haunted house where a gory head comes down the chimney every night.
More than two dozen spooky stories—and even scary songs—are beautifully illustrated by Stephen Gammell, and each one is excellent for reading alone or sharing aloud in the dark. Then Go Ahead!
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Telling scary stories is something people have done for thousands of years, for most of us like being scared in that way. Since there isn’t any danger, we think it is fun.”
“Most scary stories are, of course, meant to be told. They are more scary that way. But how you tell them is important.”
“usually the liver or the heart, that he”
“The night Ted died, Sam said he looked just like the skeleton.”