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He didn't want to be invisible! It only happened that way! Tom Fenton was an unassuming chemistry professor at Millwood University, a sleepy little town in northern California. On a sleepy/rainy night, he accidentally comes upon a formula: a formula that rendered him invisible! He is elated, except, there is no remedy; no solution; no antidote to reverse the process! He is stuck in his invisible state! It becomes permanent! He wants to free himself...
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El hombre invisible de H.G. Wells es una novela clásica de ciencia ficción que sigue la historia del Dr. Griffin, un brillante científico que descubre una forma de hacerse invisible. Mientras Griffin experimenta con su nuevo poder, sucumbe a la locura y utiliza su invisibilidad con fines siniestros. La novela explora temas como el poder, la moralidad y las consecuencias de una ambición científica desmedida. A medida que las acciones de Griffin...
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Some are destined to walk the earth forever. Some are forced to do it. All are damned. This collectioncontains tales of classic monsters such as the Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, TheCreature, and more.How would the Invisible Man survive in a small town? What if an adult film actor just happened to be awerewolf? What would it be like to serve Dracula…forever? The tales herein will answer these, andmuch more.Welcome to the world...
4) Monster Mash
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Dr. Frankenstein melds the world's strongest monsters-including Dracula, Werewolf, and the Invisible Man- into a singular, unstoppable creation.
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Jesus Cries When You Touch Yourself is a comic monologue written in tribute to the late George Carlin on the topic of religious bullshit in America. Influenced by Carlin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bill Maher, Monty Python, and the writers of South Park, the author uses constant mockery and absurdist humor on a tour of ridiculous beliefs in America. With devastating logic, Jesus, the most beloved character in all of history, is revealed to be the world's...
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At Scotland Yard, DI Timothy Stoker is no better than a ghost. A master of arcane documents and niggling details who, unlike his celebrity-chasing colleagues, prefers hard work to headlines. But an invisible man is needed to unmask the city's newest amateur detective, Hieronymus Bash. A bon vivant long on flash and style but short on personal history, Bash just may be a Cheapside rogue in Savile Row finery.When the four fangs of the Demon Cats of...
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The TWELFTH issue of the Horror Guys Monthly review digest, Horror Bulletin, includes reviews of thirty-one full-length films and horror shorts-one each day this month.
Each of the films contains a complete synopsis of the film, including spoilers (so beware!), as well as our commentary on the quality of the story and how well it holds up for viewers today.
Part One: Movie Reviews1943 I Walked with a Zombie1944 The Soul of a Monster1951 Bud Abbott...
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A vengeful scientist uses his brilliant discovery to unleash terror on the world in this timeless science fiction classic from an early-twentieth-century master The scientific community has always shunned William Carpenter. A strange, hulking giant, a talented biochemical investigator, and the self-styled "greatest mind in the western world," he has locked himself inside a house with no windows, in the most desolate reaches of New Jersey, where he...
9) The annotated Abbott and Costello: a complete viewer's guide to the comedy team and their 38 films
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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[2023]
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"Abbott and Costello were the most popular comedians of the 1940s, with burlesque-inspired routines that enthralled audiences on both radio and television. However, their films have oddly not received the same level of attention from critics and writers as those of other comedy teams. This book is a scene-by-scene, film-by-film guide to their movies, making a compelling case for their inclusion at the very top table of comic artists. Featuring new...
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My deepest wish is that reading this book will inspire you to take a look at your human experience and see it for the beautiful, painful blessing that it is. Whether you face illness and pain or you want to build a scalable business, you have the power to do it no matter what life throws at you by doing it your perfectly imperfect way, with your perfectly imperfect body and mind. Flic Manning has lived a life that is anything but traditional. With...
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St. Martin's Essentials
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2023.
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"A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing contact with nonhuman life-forms of all kinds due to technological innovations and research into the experiences of people at the forefront of this development. In Encounters, author D.W. Pasulka takes readers to the forefront of this revolution, sharing the work of experts across a spectrum of fields who are working to connect humanity with unknown...
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Candlewick Press
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2024.
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"When ten-year-old Felix drops a penny in the wishing fountain at the center of town, he really doesn't expect his sixteen-year-old sister to suddenly like him again, or to offer to share a cinnamon bun or watch cartoons like they used to. She hasn't even remembered she was supposed to give him a ride home! But someone else is at the fountain too: a strange old man with a fishing pole who claims to be invisible. To Felix's amazement, he learns that...