Written between and , Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned , making it a creative project that spanned his adult life.
Not only do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation.
Centred around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos while ranging across distinct themes.
Essays included discuss the diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender, sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of family.
The author of the popular Green Witchcraft series presents her personal Book of Shadows, designed for you to use just as she uses it-as a working guide to ritual, spells, and divination.
This ready-made, authentic grimoire is based on family tradition and actual magical experience, and is easily adaptable to any tradition of Witchcraft.
Grimoire for the Green Witch offers a treasury of magical information—rituals for Esbats and Sabbats, correspondences, circle-casting techniques, sigils, symbols, recitations, spells, teas, oils, baths, and divinations.
Every aspect of Craft practice is addressed, from the purely magical to the personally spiritual. It is a distillation of Green practice, with room for growth and new inspiration. Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world.
Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a "free agent" with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality.
But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too? Ursula K. As soon as you start reading Akata Witch, you will be, too! The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances. Plague is spreading. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch.
Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It's enough to make anyone jealous, and Katharina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone's business. So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold or as Katharina calls her, the Werewolf accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill, Katharina is in trouble.
Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin, torture, and even execution, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets. Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which Rivka Galchen is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain.
The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. Galchen's bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition, the state, and the mortal convulsions of history.
When an anonymous note claims someone in the class is a witch, everyone is eager to prove it is someone else, and Chrestomancy arrives just in time to prevent disaster.
As if she discovered a small army of silenced women captive in her pen, Megan Falley releases them in the spilled ink that is her most brilliant collection of poems, After the Witch Hunt. Demanding "if you really love a writer, bury her in all your awful and watch as she scrawls her way out," her book does exactly that. An incessant digging, a journey in building escape routes, armed with both humor and a brazen darkness, each poem in this book of bloodletting is another swing of the pick and axe in this young woman's labor, insistent upon light.
In this haunting and provocative collection, some of the best-known authors of the fantastic and the mysterious explore the legends and lore of witches and witchcraft. In April Asher's Not the Witch You Wed, a fake relationship between a magic-less witch and a wolf shifter turns to more in the start of this bewitching paranormal rom-com series. Magic-less witch Violet Maxwell wants nothing to do with alpha wolf shifter Lincoln Thorne—the man who broke her fragile, teenage heart.
But when the two of them are forced by arcane Supernatural Laws to find mates, Violet and Lincoln agree to fake-date their way to a fake-mating in order to conjure themselves some time.
But there are old secrets and looming threats that could snatch away their happily ever after, again. In Not the Witch You Wed, Asher brings all the hilarity and sweet, sexy moments you love in a romantic-comedy—plus a fun dose of magic—to this spell-binding series about being sexy, single, and supernatural in New York City.
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft has influenced and guided countless students, coven initiates, and solitaries around the world. One of modern Wicca's most recommended books, this comprehensive text features a step-by-step course in Witchcraft, with photographs and illustrations, rituals, beliefs, history, and lore, as well as instruction in spellwork, divination, herbalism, healing, channeling, dreamwork, sabbats, esbats, covens, and solitary practice.
The workbook format includes exam questions at the end of each lesson, so you can build a permanent record of your spiritual and magical training. This complete self-study course in modern Wicca is a treasured classic—an essential and trusted guide that belongs in every Witch's library.
Praise: "A masterwork by one of the great Elders of the Craft. Raymond Buckland has presented a treasure trove of Wiccan lore. It is a legacy that will provide magic, beauty, and wisdom to future generations of those who seek the ancient paths of the Old Religion.
This book contains enough information and know-how for all approaches: the historical, the philosophical, and the pragmatic. Skip to content. April Witch. April Witch Book Review:. The April Witch. The April Witch Book Review:. Ray Bradbury Collection. Ray Bradbury Collection Book Review:. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew. The weave includes " The Traveler , " " Uncle Einar , " and two more vampire - family stories drafted in the s and reworked years later for publication as standalone pieces , " The April Witch " and " West of October First performance April 30, , Baltimore, Peabody Conservatory.
A young witch desires to know what it The Witch's Grave is dedicated, with true thanks, to these thirteen a witch's coven : Keith Kahla for poodle images Maria Carvainis for April sat on the bed holding Austin and started to pet him. Are you serious? Remember, the spell breaker? Madrid : Ediciones SM , ISBN : Four powerful short stories by the eminent science fiction writer are April Witch was originally published in Swedish in Review of Ursula K. In fact, Joyce occupies the same imaginative territory as the Swedish writer Majgull Axelsson in her April Witch , English translation , one of the books that most impressed me for engaging critically with Swedish society.
The Romans held the Floralia at the end of April and the beginning of May, which gave rise to many of the May Day customs we still practice today. Flora is a goddess of the spring and flowers and blossoms in general, as well as youth April witch Chludow takes the place of his father , and late member of the Allen WH and Co.
Cornforth Wm , H and Co. She soared in doves as soft as Majgull Axelson is the author of four works of non-fiction as well as one previous novel, Far from Nitetheim, for which she was awarded the Moa Stipend.
In this haunting and provocative collection, some of the best-known authors of the fantastic and the mysterious explore the legends and lore of witches and witchcraft. Written between and , Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned , making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation.
Centred around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos while ranging across distinct themes. Essays included discuss the diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender, sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of family.
Eller Jonathan R. Author : Jonathan R. Details each of Bradbury's writings from initial draft through various editions, providing sample pages showing Bradbury's drafts and revisions and side-by-side sections of novels and short stories that compare the way Bradbury's work appeared in different published sources.
Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations. Since its original publication in , Griffel has added nearly entries to the 4, from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from through Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings.
Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A—Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer.
Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures. Fever Devilin was raised amongst the hill-country people of the deep Georgia Appalachians and their seemingly simple folk ways are in his blood and his soul. His own family, however, was another matter and at sixteen he left home for college, returning only rarely and always under protest.
In the years to come, Fever became a noted folklorist of the Appalachian region and a college professor. He never quite adjusted to the realities of city life and academic politics, and has now returned to the deceptively quiet life amongst his people. But below the surface, nothing is ever as quiet and simple as it appears. Tied by friendship and long-term enmity to all of the principals, Fever finds himself in the midst of a very difficult situation.
To make matters even worse, the brothers of the missing girl are determined to find Carter - who has taken it on the lam - and administer their own brand of justice. With precious little time, lives at stake, and a missing girl to be found, Devilin must unravel the mystery behind this perplexing series of events.
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