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Explore the town of Arkham, setting for the beloved Arkham Horror series of tabletop games, in this comprehensive, full-color, hardcover guide to its people, places and strange goings on… Witness Arkham like you’re walking its streets, peering into its shadows… It is the height of the Roaring Twenties. Flappers and young fellas dance the Charleston at raucous jazz clubs gleaming bright with electric lights. Beneath this gilded glamour, bloody turf wars rage, funded by gangsters and crooked cops who frequent rival speakeasies and gambling dens. Amid these changing times, old New England towns hold their secrets close. Off the Aylesbury pike, in reclusive Dunwich, rolling hills hide decr...
Updated digital edition of the essential tome for all the most daring fans of the beloved Arkham Horror family of tabletop games, now expanded to 55 short stories with full-color illustrations The Ancient Ones, beings so impossible that to behold them is to lose one’s mind, stir in their slumber. To herald their awakening, cultists prepare malefic rituals from blasphemous tomes. The barriers between our world and other dimensions have been rent asunder, unleashing unspeakable monstrosities from impossible realities to prowl city streets under cover of darkness. Only a few brave investigators who have stumbled upon these threats have the strength and courage to confront them. But at what cost to themselves? Through lavish art and haunting stories, join the investigators from the acclaimed Arkham Horror games as they explore 1920s Arkham, the far-flung corners of the Earth, and the strange worlds of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The bold investigators of Arkham Horror are humanity’s best hope against monstrous terrors from beyond the void, in this second collection of extraordinary eldritch novellas To Fight the Black Wind by Jennifer Brozek – psychologist Carolyn Fern’s treatment of a patient’s terrifying nightmares tears open a doorway into the Dreamlands and the Elder Gods. The Blood of Baalshandor by Richard Lee Byers – the arcane tomes of Miskatonic University are an irresistible lure for stage magician, Dexter Drake and his assistant Molly Maxwell, where they soon fall prey to dark forces. Dark Revelations by Amanda Downum – when author Gloria Goldberg visits Arkham to complete the unfinished novel of her fellow author, its words escape the page and transform Arkham. Also featuring the essential Investigator Origins stories, drawn from deep in the Arkham Horror archives.
This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
Die Ermittler von Arkham Horror sind in dieser zweiten Novellen-Sammlung die einzige Hoffnung der Menschheit gegen monströse Schrecken aus der Leere. Enthält drei herrlich schaurige Abenteuer: - Eine Behandlung gegen die schrecklichen Albträume einer Patientin durch die Psychologin Carolyn Fern reißt ein Tor zu den Traumlanden und den Alten Göttern auf. - Die geheimnisvollen Bücher der Miskatonic University sind eine unwiderstehliche Verlockung für den Bühnenmagier Dexter Drake und seine Assistentin Molly Maxwel. Doch schon bald fallen sie dunklen Mächten zum Opfer. - Als die Autorin Gloria Goldberg Arkham besucht, um den unvollendeten Roman ihres Schriftstellerkollegen fertig zu schreiben, entweichen seine Worte von den Seiten und beginnen Arkham zu verwandeln. Außerdem gibt es die Origin-Geschichten der Ermittler aus den Tiefen des Arkham Horror-Archivs.
This book is the second volume in the Recent Advances in Forensic Medicine and Toxicology series. Volume One (9789351525585) published in 2014. Divided into five sections, the text provides specialists and trainees with the very latest advances and information in their field. The book begins with discussion on medical jurisprudence and legal issues covering issues such as medical negligence and medical evidence in victim examination. The next chapters cover clinical forensic medicine describing specific cases, and forensic pathology explaining autopsy for different scenarios. New to this volume, are two final sections which discuss advances in forensic anthropology, examination of skeletal remains, and controversies in forensic testing and investigations. Key points New volume presenting latest advances and information in forensic medicine and toxicology Covers medical jurisprudence, clinical forensic medicine and forensic pathology Volume Two features two new sections on forensic anthropology and forensic science Highly illustrated with forensic photographs, diagrams, tables and boxes