Read e-book online The End of the Sentence PDF

By Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard

ISBN-10: 1596066792

ISBN-13: 9781596066793

It starts with a letter from a prisoner…

As he makes an attempt to rebuild his lifestyles in rural Oregon after a sad twist of fate, Malcolm Mays unearths himself corresponding with Dusha Chuchonnyhoof, a mysterious entity who claims to be the landlord of Malcolm's residence, jailed unjustly for 117 years. The prisoner calls for that Malcolm practice a gory, bewildering activity for him. because the clock ticks towards Dusha's unencumber, Malcolm needs to try to discover no matter if he's helping a assassin or an blameless. the top of the Sentence combines Kalapuya, Welsh, Scottish and Norse mythology, with a gloomy imagined background of the hidden corners of the yank West.

Maria Dahvana Headley and Kat Howard have cast a fairytale of ghosts and guilt, literary horror mixed with the visuals of Jean Cocteau, failed executions, shapeshifting goblins, and magical blacksmithery. In Chuchonnyhoof, they've created a brand new form of Beast, longing, centuries later, for good looks.

Show description

Read or Download The End of the Sentence PDF

Best mythology books

Download e-book for kindle: Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A. S. Byatt

Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. a narrative of the destruction of lifestyles on the earth and the tip of the gods themselves: what extra proper fable may perhaps any smooth author pick out? simply as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic fight for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so A. S. Byatt now reinvents it in all its depth and glory.

Download e-book for kindle: Scale-Bright by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Julienne’s aunts are the archer who shot down the suns and the girl who lives at the moon. They educate her that there’s extra to the town of her delivery than meets the attention – that underneath the fashionable chrome and glass of Hong Kong there are demons, gods, and the seethe of historical feuds.

New PDF release: Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures

This exhaustive quantity catalogs approximately 3 thousand demons within the mythologies and lore of just about each historical society and such a lot religions. From Aamon, the demon of lifestyles and replica with the pinnacle of a serpent and the physique of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries provide descriptions of every demon's origins, visual appeal and cultural importance.

Get Les Amazones PDF

Dans une société dont l’époque n’est pas précisée (un savant mélange d’éléments archaïques et contemporains), les femmes, comme les Amazones de l. a. mythologie grecque, sont coupées des hommes (perçus comme des ennemis) et assurent leur copy par une mix végétale qu’elles mêlent à de los angeles boue.

Extra info for The End of the Sentence

Sample text

Since each lobe contains a spot of the opposite color, we are cleverly reminded that every half of a aualistic pair contains something of its opposite within its heart. The yang-and-yin design itself is cleverly composed of two tangential circles on the same diameter of a larger eircle; then the lower half of one and the upper half of the other circle are removed to form the S-curve. About a thousand years ago, the Chinese viewed this symbol as an expression of the phases of the moon, which meant that it was "female" in both light and dark aspects.

This operation I. Mahanirvanatantra, 335. 2. • 29. 3. " Firstborn children were regarded as fathered by the god upon mortal virgins, because of the de· Maypole floration custom-which was prevalent not The Maypole was a pagan symbol for the only in southeastern Asia but also · throughout the Middle East and in Rome. May King's phallus, traditionally set up for the festivities of Beltane (May Eve; Such divinely begotten "sons of God" Walpurgisnacht) that initiated the new seawere often chosen fqr lives of religious deson of growth and fertility, and "wearing of votion.

Brewster, 226. 4. Hall, 78. as a tau. It was also known as the gibbet cross or Saint Anthony's cross, though its connection with Saint Anthony Three-Pointed Star was purely mythical. z . An older tradition made the tau cross a Actually a triangle with indented sides, the three-pointed star is an unusual star symbol of Saint Philip; whose ~ast shape. It is found especially in Arabic day at the beginning of May was a Chrisfretwork and allover pattern designs. The tianization of a major pagan festival.

Download PDF sample

The End of the Sentence by Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard


by Mark
4.2

Rated 4.17 of 5 – based on 23 votes