Bluebeard

In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colo...

'I can see her just. Most people can't see her at all.'A girl made of glass. Gods and murders. A serial killer's friends. And a secret in a bottle....

Analyzes the forms the tale of Bluebeard's Wife has taken over time, particularly in Anglo-European popular culture. This book documents the fortun...

From the author of Slaughterhouse 5.

This collection of eight French contes collected by Charles Perrault in the last decade of the seventeenth century, contains perhaps the most famou...

Reducere. It's August 1946--one year after the Japanese surrender--and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan P...

Professor McMoo, Pat and Bo, discover that Moo-Beard, the ter-moo-nator pirate is much more scary than Blackbeard and Bluebeard when the Time Shed ...

Reducere. Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Lon...

Contributor(s): Editor: Maria Tatar- Seven different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood, " "Beauty and the Beast, " "Snow White, " "Sleeping Beaut...

Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary stud...

Reducere. Idaho was the forty-third state admitted to the Union, but it just might lead the nation in strange stories and offbeat legends. Author and Idaho r...

Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous ritualsDurtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing...

Praised by Kirkus Reviews as "a brisk, colorful, and cleverly recounted selection of ten crimes, " this gripping book ventures into rural America t...

Reducere. The fairy tales of Charles Perrault-10 timeless stories published from 1693 to 1697-have endured in the public imagination, becoming archetypes tha...

Reducere. The fairy tales of Charles Perrault-10 timeless stories published from 1693 to 1697-have endured in the public imagination, becoming archetypes tha...

Reducere. Once upon a time in the city of Tunis, a flirtatious young girl was drawn into Lilith's dangerous web by glancing repeatedly at herself in the mirr...

The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. Neil Gaiman, "Orange" Aimee Bend...

Reducere. "A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America's most notorious female killers." --The New York Times Book ReviewAn Amaz...

DescriptionWho wrote Cinderella? It may sound like a trick question but few would immediately think of a French author writing to entertain the cou...

Reducere. Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains a...

For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history's most "elite" serial killers--master murderers who stre...

Reducere. BEAUTIES, BEASTS AND ENCHANTMENTCLASSIC FRENCH FAIRY TALES Edited and translated by Jack Zipes A wonderful new collection of 36 French fairy tales ...

There are few serial killer biographies more disturbing, than the story of Belle Gunness. This female serial killer was not only the worst in Illin...

Reducere. "Puss in Boots, " "Blue Beard, " "Tom Thumb, " and other beloved fairy tale classics, as set down by the man who first rescued them from the oral t...