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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This study puts cannibalism into its social and historical perspective. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, numerous prohibitions surround the subject, and yet a dark fascination with the subject remains. Characters include Sweeny Todd, Jeffrey Dahmer, Armin Meiwes, and much to the pleasure of Boris Johnson the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea. All tastes are catered for in this hugely compelling book that is always vivacious but never salacious....
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English
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Three families traveling through the mountains of North Carolina to claim their share of the gold rush become stranded deep in the forest, overwhelmed by the unrelenting snow and frigid temperatures. It doesn't take long for the food supply to run out, for desperation and harmful intentions to set in. When one of their own dies, they commit a depraved act to survive, a depraved act that unleashes a curse that will not stop until every one of them...
Publisher
NBC Universal Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the way, playing a game all his own, while they work to unravel...
Publisher
NBCUniversal, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Will is locked in a mental asylum accused of Hannibal Lecter's crimes. Now that Will knows what Hannibal is, he faces a fight to prove his own sanity and convince those closest to him that he is innocent. Jack is dealing with his own feelings about Will, and whether his protege is a killer. Looking for answers, Jack looks to Lecter, who becomes the new consultant on cases. Lecter is torn between saving himself and keeping Will close to him, despite...
Author
Series
Walking dead volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Español
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Bestseller #1 de The New York Times : La verdadera historia de un equipo de rugby que recurre a lo inimaginable cuando su avión se estrella en los Andes. Reinaba el buen ánimo cuando el Fairchild F-227 despegó desde Mendoza, Argentina, con rumbo a Santiago, Chile. Había cuarenta y cinco pasajeros a bordo, entre ellos un equipo de rugby amateur uruguayo y los amigos y parientes de los jugadores. El cielo estaba despejado ese viernes 13 de octubre...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes. Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October 13, 1972, and at 3:30 p.m., the Fairchild's pilot...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A long forgotten tale gets a new life as this book reveals the true story of the 18th-century shipwreck cannibalism scandal During the fierce winter of 1710, 14 Englishmen had taken refuge on Boon Island, a sparse 100-yard long stretch of rock, without food or adequate shelter, uncertain of when or if they would be rescued. They endured for 24 days. An attempt to escape failed and four men died. Facing starvation, their captain, John Dean, gave the...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
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Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rick Grimes, his family, and the other survivors leave thecamp outside of Atlanta in search of a safer place, which they locate about twenty miles out of Atlanta--a gated housing development called Wiltshire Estates--but it may not be as safe as it appears.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Kentucky police officer Rick Grimes, shot on the job, wakes up from month-long coma to find the world has been taken over by flesh-eating zombies, and upon hearing that most of the people still alive have been herded into the cities, he heads for Atlanta in hopes of finding his wife and son.
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the early years of the Victorian age, a newly literate class of readers turned to "penny dreadfuls" for escapist fun. Blood-curdling tales, published in installments and costing only a penny, offered gripping episodes of romance, mystery, and horror. The notorious penny dreadful Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls recounts a young woman's desperate search for her missing sailor sweetheart―a quest that ends in a Fleet Street barber shop, where...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The author of ‘Murder City” and “Down by the River” reflects on the destructive nature of American culture.
Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in “Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals” is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land, Bowden struggles to make sense of the many ways...
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