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Fearworms: Selected Poems features Robert Payne Cabeens new and previously published poems--from the 1980s to the present. These manically crafted word machines are visceral, psychological, haunting, and terrifyingly humorous, and they are guaranteed to leave readers squirming. *Robert Payne Cabeen's horror poetry collection was nominated by the 2014 Bram Stoker Award (Poetry), the 2015 Elgin Award, and the 2015 Rhysling Award.
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN CLASSICS presents great stories and poems from America's earliest Black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are "Two Americans" by Florence Lewis Bentley, "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "Becky" by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and six more tales of humor and tragedy. Also eleven poems, including Langston Hughes' "Danse Africaine" and "The Negro", plus Paul...
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The classic Persian poem of romance and tragedy captured as a sumptuous and richly colorful graphic novel, inspired by traditional art of the region. 1 VOLUME RELEASED - INDEPENDENT STORIES. It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale and interpreted hundreds of times in a dozen languages, its influence is felt in story, song, popular culture, even language. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla. Qais and Layla were...
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The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secretes). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness)....
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From Hugo, Eisner, Newbery, Harvey, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning author Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (The Sandman, The Giver), Scott Hampton (American Gods), and Paul Chadwick (Concrete) comes a graphic novel adaptations of the short stories and poems : The Problem of Susan, October in the Chair, Locks, and The Day the Saucers Came. Two stories and two poems. All wondrous and imaginative about the tales we tell...
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Creators: Original stories and poems by Charles Eastman, Zitkala-Sa, Alex Posey, E. Pauline Johnson, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, William Jones, Buffalo Bird Woman, Gilbert L. Wilson, Elias Johnson, Simon Pokagon, James Harris Guy, Handsome Lake, Arthur C. Parker, Bertrand N.O. Walker, Israel Folsom, Royal Roger Eubanks, Carlos Montezuma, John E. Smelcer, Joseph Bruchac. Adaptations by Benjamin Truman, Andrea Grant, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair,...
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When the father of a large family makes a beautiful winter coat, little does he know how much use it will get. Little Gedalia wears the coat with pride all year, but when it gets too tight for him-he's a growing boy, after all-it's given to his sister, Yeshaya. Thus begins the journey of the coat, as it's passed down from child to child-from the sweet Haya to the rambunctious Efraim and so on-falling apart bit by bit during their play until it's in...
9) The Aeneid
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Virgil's classic tale of a hero's mythical journey comes to life in this graphic retelling for kids. From the smoldering ruins of Troy, the warrior Aeneas sets out to find a new homeland for his people. But it's no easy task, for his adventure is filled with great sacrifice, angry gods, tragic love, and brutal battles. Will Aeneas be able to fulfill his destiny and found the mighty city of Rome? With extra background on the original Latin epic poem...
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Creators: Half stories for dog-lovers, half for cat-lovers. Original stories and poems by Ray Bradbury, P.G. Wodehouse, Algernon Blackwood, Robert E. Howard, Franz Kafka, Saki, Edward Lear, Joe R. Lansdale, Carl Sandburg, Joseph Jacobs, H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Robert J, Burdette, James Anthony Froude, O. Henry, Oliver Goldsmith, John Lehman. Adaptations by Alex Burrows, Antonella Caputo, Trina Robbins, Tom Pomplun. Edited by Tom Pomplun and...
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What if you combined Shel Silverstein and Tim Burton with a dollop of Dr. Seuss? Youd get Attaboy. With his theatrical eye for the absurd and unbridled paintbrush, Attaboys hilarious anthology of poems will amuse readers of all ages. Off-the-wall characters (a child who is a sock magnet) meet the adorably peculiar (a hugging cactus) and the bizarre (zombie clowns). Then there's the title story. Because of his beastly behavior, Gustav's parents...
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POE'S TALES OF MYSTERY features a new full-color comics adaptation of Poe's seminal detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Also "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "The Man of the Crowd", "Berenice" and nine more stories and poems by the creator of the mystery genre. Artists include Michael Manning, Reno Maniquis, Brad Teare, Nelson Evergreen and Lisa K. Weber. Full color.
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The Song of Hiawatha is based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem written in 1855 and based on the hero Hiawatha and his love Minehaha. This tale compiles the legends and folklore of the Objibwe and other Native American people and concludes with the arrival of the white man. Beautifully illustrated, this classic, comic graphic novel captures the imagination of readers of all ages and inspires a love of literature and reading. A must-have for...
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CHRISTMAS CLASSICS presents comics adaptations of both holiday favorites and rarities, featuring Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Also included are an early F. Scott Fitzgerald tale, an O. Henry western, a fairy tale by Willa Cather and a Christmas horror story by Fitz-James O'Brien. Plus a seasonal Sherlock Holmes adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle, Clement C. Moore's classic poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", and a letter from Santa Claus to Mark...
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Fresh and bizarre terrors abound in Creepy Archives Volume 18, collecting issues #84-#88 of Warren Publishing's flagship horror anthology. Reprinting issues themed around doomed sports scenarios, classic monsters, Christmastime atrocities, and the entrancing planet Mars, this beautiful edition also features all original fan pages and letter columns! * Includes Bernie Wrightson's illustrated poem "A Martian Saga." * Both dark... and darkly...
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GRAPHIC CLASSICS: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT features "Little Women", adapted for comics by Trina Robbins and illustrated by Anne Timmons. Plus lesser-known gothic mysteries and horror stories including "A Whisper in the Dark" by Antonella Caputo and Arnold Arre, "The Rival Prima Donnas" by Rod Lott and Molly Crabapple, and "Lost in a Pyramid" by Alex Burrows and Pedro Lopez. Also two poems and two strange children's stories, "Buzz" and "The Piggy Girl", illustrated...
17) The listeners
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After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.
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"Girls, living in the country will be your chance," her parents tell her. And so Catherine Meurisse spends her childhood outdoors. Construction all around her: an old farmhouse renovated into a home, trees planted, a garden created, dreams cultivated. They dig, they graft, they plant a rosebush "adopted" from Montaigne, a fig tree from Rabelais. They observe the tumult of the outside world: new developments in industrial agriculture, the citification...
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ADVENTURE CLASSICS is the second multi-author anthology in the GRAPHIC CLASSICS series. The book presents thirteen stories and poems of danger, horror, comedy and romance; all told in new comics adaptations. Included are "The Valley of the Sorceress" by "Fu Manchu" author Sax Rohmer, "The Masked Ball" by Alexandre Dumas, and "Tigre" by Zane Grey. Plus a classic war story by Damon Runyon, an adventure by Robert Louis Stevenson, and a noir crime tale...
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A collection of comic stories from celebrated and award-winning writer Neil Gaiman, in conjunction with some of comics' most acclaimed creators. A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom. Incarnations of the months of the year sit around a campfire sharing stories as a professor recounts a Narnian childhood and the apocalypse unfolds in two stories and two poems. An...