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Frank Norris
Born in Chicago in 1870, Frank Norris led a life of adventure and art. He moved to San Francisco at fifteen, spent two years in Paris painting, and returned to San Francisco to become an internationally famous author. He died at age thirty-two from a ruptured appendix. During his short life, he wrote an inspired series of novels about the United States coming of age. The Octopus was a prescient warning about the threat of monopolies, and The Pit exposed the intrigues and dirty dealings at the Chicago grain exchange. Extensively reprinted, Norris's works have also found their way into popular consciousness through film (Erich von Stroheim's Greed), and even an opera based on his portrait of t...
Death by Diamonds
From USA Today bestselling author Kelly Rey comes a hilarious mystery with a sparkling twist … Diamonds are not always a girl’s best friend. At least that's what legal secretary turned reluctant sleuth Jamie Winters realizes when a dead body shows up on her boyfriend, Curt's, patio...with a pocket full of diamonds! The dead woman was Amber Freeling, an old college friend of Curt’s, and the deeper Jamie digs into her death, the more it appears someone was out to get Amber. With the help of her teenage sidekick, Maizy, Jamie tries to determine if Amber was an innocent victim or a jewel thief. And as the case leads them to a shady pawnshop and its shadier staff, Jamie realizes no one is w...
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism
After its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, naturalism, a genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of biological and environmental forces over which they have little control, was supplanted by modernism, a genre in which writers experimented with innovations in form and content. In the last decade, the movement is again attracting spirited scholarly debate. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism takes stock of the best new research in the field through collecting twenty-eight original essays drawing upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies. The contributors offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of writers from S...
Nefarious
Mitch Black is young, handsome and rich. He became a millionaire before the age of thirty by playing the stock market and opening up a nightclub with his cousin, Wesley Hunter. Mitch is also married, but he still enjoys playing the field. However, Mitch's life changes forever when he crosses paths with the beautiful Brea Jones. He falls head over heels in love with her, and his life soon goes on a downward spiral that doesn't stop until he hits rock bottom. He also experiences betrayal, personal loss, and tragedy. Will Mitch pick up the pieces of his broken life and turn things around, or will he get caught up in his quest for vengeance?
Devolution Z June 2016
13 original short stories and poems from talented authors of horror from around the world. Published monthly. Demons, werewolves, vampires and creatures from your deepest nightmares all await you in this issue of Devolution Z. Devolution Z Magazine accepts supernatural horror short story and poetry submissions. In this issue: POETRY "Deadman" by Paul Andrews "Winter's Rose" by Terry Miller "A Bite in the Glacial Winter" by Sandro D. Fossemo "Snap" by K. I. Borrowman "The Defiler" by Josh Brown "Keeping Werewolves of London" by Ian Hunter SHORT STORIES "Tailypo, Tailypo" by Tim Waggoner "The House of Burn" by S.L. Dixon "The Marsh Witch" by Quentin Norris "Multipresence" by Brian H. Seitzman "The Beast in the Bowels" by Josh Craven "That Damn Pumpkin" by Leslie Anne Wibberley "Fairies Versus Zombies" by Wendy Fisher ILLUSTRATION "A Bite in the Glacial Winter" by Roberto Cantoro COVER ART Luke Spooner
The Final Curve
The Final Curve On a rainy Sunday night before the convening of the Georgia General Assembly, Henry Perkins, fired and disgraced former mail services director in the Office of Secretary of State, loses control of his car and plunges to his death. Ten years later three prominent legislators, former co-workers who had a hand in his dismissal, die in car accidents almost in a re-creation of his death. Is it mishap or murder? Marcus Norwood, the governors ruthless chief of staff, has a terrible secret to hide. House Secretary, Renae Stewart, is harboring a strong desire for revenge. Representative Randy Joe Reynolds is a vicious racist who will risk everything to promote his twisted agenda and protect the legacy of his peach empire. Lena Lawrence is the seductive legislative aide, whose insatiable lust for love and power may drive her over the edge. The Final Curve is a compelling, suspenseful and fictional tale of love, lies and deception with a glimpse of government and history under the gold dome.
Where I've Been, and where I'm Going
One of America's foremost novelists comments on the classics of literature and art and the perennial questions of the human condition in her first essay collection in a decade.
Contagion
When world-renowned doctor Quentin Forsythe goes missing after traveling to a decimated colony in the heart of south Africa, a team of doctors must find a way to save one of their own when a sinister new virus is unleashed, transforming the colonists into something unspeakable. Doctors Judas Sturgis and Katy Madison embark into the colony to find their missing colleague, Dr. Quentin Forsythe, who supposedly has found a cure. They will witness the horrifying wake of this unstoppable virus. It's a race against the clock when the U.S. Military led by Capt. Nathaniel Logan arrives - on orders to quarantine the whole area. A fractured rebel army arrives with their own dark agenda, and Dr. Sturgis starts to unravel from the seams. Can Katy Madison and Capt. Logan hold everything together and find a way to save the colony, or risk becoming her next victims? Check out more great Horrified Press titles here: horrifiedpress.wordpress.com
The Shape Under the Sheet
This reference source on Stephen King's fiction provides details about characters, places and objects in each of King's novels and short stories and includes a biography section, interviews with family, friends and contemporaries, and sections on film adaptations and audio versions of his work.
