Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators such as Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Art Spiegelman, eclipsing the work of others who also played a key role in shaping comics as we know them today. The Other 1980s offers a more complicated and multivalent picture of this robust era of ambitious comics publishing....

A brutal, bloody war against the ruthless Wraith King has cost the light fae more than innocent lives.Una Hartstone, Princess of Issos, learns the price the Wraith King demands to end the war once and for all—Her. In exchange for the safety of her people, she agrees to give her life—and her body—to her greatest enemy.Gollaya Verbane is determined to fulfill his destiny and his god's prophecy. When his seer points to the Princess of Issos as the key to the r...

'It is as if Henry VIII, Mary and Elizabeth were combined into one character, and unleashed for the first time: so much more fun than another Boleyn book' - Independent'Compelling, exotic and fast-paced: a wonderful story of love and death that transports you into a forgotten world' - Vanora Bennett'Speedy, gripping, historical fiction' - Marie Claire'Clothier has a good story, a vigorous style and well-turned phrase' - Times Literary ...

Uncover the theories behind the Master of Horror's macabre tales: It, The Shining, Carrie, Cujo, Misery, Pet Semetary, and so much more!Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Monsters and The Science of Women in Horror, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film Daddy, present a guide to the Stephen King stories and characters we all know and love. Through interviews, literary and film ana...

Raven Kennedy’s Gild meets Jennifer L. Armentrout’s From Blood and Ash in this dark and riveting romantasy following a bastard princess caught up in the revenge of gods, the first book in a trilogy about survival, obsession, and the quiet fury of a woman who won’t be forgotten.A marriage forged in blood. A kingdom bathed in silence. And a princess who refuses to break.When Princess Mireille is wed to a foreign king with cold eyes and colder...

Una guida alle storie e ai personaggi di Stephen King più famosi e amati: da It a Shining, da Carrie a Cujo, da Pet Semetary a Misery. Attraverso interviste, analisi letterarie e cinematografiche e scoperte agghiaccianti, La scienza di Stephen King si addentra nell'universo horror del maestro del genere per scoprire cosa c'è dietro ai suoi leggendari romanzi e rispondere a domande come: "Qual è la scienza alla base dei viaggi nel tempo e degli universi paralleli nella serie La torre nera e...

It's a one in a million chance that the sexy-as-sin and savage wolf king finds his fated mate—me, the curvy warrior—on the most hostile planet. But you can't call him one lucky bastard.I can't be his—I'm sworn to another. And I haven't the time for mating when I have to lead a gang of the worst criminals to fight off the vampire hordes, cannibals, and Akem's creatures of nightmare to find the veiled portal to go home.The ruthless, red-blooded wolf king isn't one to listen t...

**When Murgha's degenerate father bets their last bit of coin—and her —in a high-stakes game of kings and bones, she fears she will become the property of the lecherous ambassador.But when the most fearsome dark fae she has ever seen steps into the game and wins the pot, she knows her fate is much worse. She is now owned by the enemy.Now in the hands of a shadow fae priest with an agenda of his own, Murgha mistrusts his motives and the secrets he keeps. Bu...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERLOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLEREine Anthologie mit 34 brandneuen Kurzgeschichten basierend auf Stephen Kings Meisterwerk, dem Nr. 1 New-York-Times-Bestseller THE STAND!Seit seiner Erstveröffentlichung im Jahr 1978 gilt THE STAND als Stephen Ki...

This first-ever interdisciplinary study of woman as prophet shows that, in these troubling times, ordinary women—especially Christian women—need to function as prophets by proclaiming, in word and deed, the indispensability of lovingly seeking the welfare of others. More specifically, social science shows that the person-centered love prophesied by women prophets is able to meet interpersonal challenges within the home and world, while philosophy and theology establish that women are able ...

Raven Kennedy’s Gild meets Jennifer L. Armentrout’s From Blood and Ash in this dark and riveting romantasy following an illegitamate princess caught up in the revenge of gods, the first book in a trilogy about survival, obsession, and the quiet fury of a woman who won’t be forgotten.A marriage forged in blood. A kingdom bathed in silence. And a princess who refuses to brea...

She's a farmer. He's the Seelie king.I took her out to dinner.And liked spending the evening with her.So when I invited her to the Royal Court,she accepted.But I have been lying to her.And now I have to reap what I've sown.For the male she calls Commander,the world knows as the Summer King.She's a fae with barely any magic.I am the king.She thinks it can't work out between us.And I'll do...