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Brian Keene
Brian Keene (born September 22, 1967) is an American author and podcaster, primarily known for his work in horror, dark fantasy, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won the 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award and two Bram Stoker Awards. In addition to his own original work, Keene has written for media properties such as '' Doctor Who'', ''Hellboy'', '' Alien'', '' Masters of the Universe'', and ''The X-Files''. Early life Keene was born in 1967. He grew up in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and many of his books take place in these locales. After graduating high school, he served as a radioman in the U.S. Navy aboard an LPD. After his enlistment ended, Keene worked a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer. Among them were stints as a foundry worker, truck driver, data entry clerk, dockworker, telemarketer, customer service representative, repo man, bouncer, disc jockey, salesman, store manager, daycare instructor, custodian. In interviews, he credits this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Landing Platform Dock
An amphibious transport dock, also called a landing platform dock (LPD), is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. Several navies currently operate this kind of ship. The ships are generally designed to transport troops into a war zone by sea, primarily using landing craft, although invariably they also have the capability to operate transport helicopters. Amphibious transport docks perform the mission of amphibious transports, amphibious cargo ships, and the older dock landing ships (LSD) by incorporating both a flight deck and a well deck that can be ballasted and deballasted to support landing craft or amphibious vehicles. The main difference between LSDs and LPDs is that while both have helicopter landing decks, the LPD also has hangar facilities for protection and maintenance. In the United States Navy, the newer class of LPD has succeeded the older classes of LSDs, and bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloodletting Press
Bloodletting Press was launched in 2002 by Larry Roberts to publish works in the horror genre specifically for the collector's market, producing low print run limited editions intended for collectors and unique heirloom Lettered Editions for the high-end collectors. They were originally located in Modesto, California, but have since relocated to Welches, Oregon. Several of the Lettered Editions have been signed in blood and housed in metal traycases, in one example designed as a trailer complete with working interior lights. The main focus, however, of the press is the Novella Series, Novelette Series, and Chapbook Series. In recent years they have added the Steve Gerlach library, a project to publish his complete works which have been previously only available in his native Australia. Another project is the Jonathan Crowley Library which collects and keeps in print the genre work of James A. Moore. Bloodletting Press is also one of a few small presses that risks putting out new gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Hollow (novel)
''Dark Hollow'' is a 2006 horror novel (first published as ''The Rutting Season'') written by Brian Keene. It tells the story of Adam Senft, a struggling writer who discovers that an evil satyr has been summoned by Nelson LeHorn, a local witch. The satyr is hypnotising and abducting women in Adam's local town in order to procreate with them. Adam must convince his friends and the police that the satyr is real in order to destroy it. The story takes place in York County, Pennsylvania and is loosely based on Rehmeyer's Hollow, and Pennsylvania Dutch pow-wow. Plot summary Adam Senft, a struggling writer, is out walking his dog in the forest behind his house when he hears pan pipes playing. Following the sound, he finds one of his neighbors, Shelly Carpenter, fellating the stone statue of a satyr which appears to change into a living creature. Unsure of what he's seen, Adam flees the forest. At home, Adam and his wife Tara are struggling with their marriage after a miscarriage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2012. Events *January 1 – Copyright restrictions on James Joyce's major works are lifted on the first day of the year, 70 years having passed last year since his death. * January 20 – British novelist Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, and four other writers leave the city after reading excerpts from ''The Satanic Verses'', which is banned in the country. *February – James Joyce's children's story ''The Cats of Copenhagen'' is published for the first time by Ithys Press in Dublin. *March – The discovery is announced of a collection of fairy tales gathered by the historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth and locked in a Regensburg archive for more than 150 years. *April – While attending the London Book Fair, the exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of his banned book ''Beijing Coma'' and calls C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2006. Events *March – The first full-length original novel in the Manx language, ''Dunveryssyn yn Tooder-Folley'' ("The Vampire Murders") is published by Brian Stowell, after being serialized in the press. *April 7 – Justice Peter Smith concludes in a case of February 27 in the London High Court of Justice against the publisher Random House over the bestselling novel ''The Da Vinci Code'' (2003), that the author, Dan Brown, has not breached the copyright of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh in their ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (1982, non-fiction). The judgment also contains a coded message on the whim of the judge. *April 7– 9 – First Jaipur Literature Festival held in India. *Summer – Brutalism becomes the first literary movement to be launched through the social networking site Myspace. *June 14 – Ciaran Creagh's play ''Last Call'', based loosely on the hanging of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2015. Events *January 21 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launches a six-part television miniseries of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels ''Wolf Hall'' and ''Bring Up the Bodies''. *March 8 – The BBC launches a new television series of Winston Graham's ''Poldark'' novels. *March 10 – Jacek Dukaj's cyberpunk novel ''The Old Axolotl'' is published in its original Polish version as ' as purely electronic literature including hypertext and 3D printable character models. *March 19 – Kim Thúy's novel '' Ru'' wins the 2015 edition of ''Canada Reads''. *July 7 – Jeff Lindsay releases his final novel in the "Dexter" series, writing off Dexter Morgan two years after the final episode in the television series. *c. October 14 – Start of Causeway Bay Books disappearances: Five staff of the political bookseller Causeway Bay Books in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, go missing, apparent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2013. Events * 21 January – An annual Orwell Day is instituted. *26 January – Fleeing Islamist insurgents set fire to library buildings in Timbuktu containing manuscripts, mostly in Arabic, dating back to 1204. * 7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries. *April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, ''The Cuckoo's Calling'', under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books. The author's identity is revealed by the media in July. * 23 April – World Book Night. *28 April – ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'', Simon Stephens' stage adaptation of a novel by Mark Haddon, wins a record seven awards at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in London. *1 July – Publisher Penguin Random House is created by a merger. * 3 September – The new Library of Birmingham, the largest public library in the U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2005. Events *January 16 – This is the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' publication of the first part of ''Don Quixote'' in Spain. *February 25 – Canada Reads selects ''Rockbound'' by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation. *March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer. * April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30. *June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales. *August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time. New books Fiction *Tariq Ali – ''A Sultan in Palermo'' *Rajaa Alsanea – ''Girls of Riyadh'' (بنات الرياض, ''Banat al-Riyadh'') * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of The Dead (novel)
Brian Keene (born September 22, 1967) is an American author and podcaster, primarily known for his work in horror, dark fantasy, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won the 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award and two Bram Stoker Awards. In addition to his own original work, Keene has written for media properties such as ''Doctor Who'', ''Hellboy'', ''Alien'', ''Masters of the Universe'', and ''The X-Files''. Early life Keene was born in 1967. He grew up in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and many of his books take place in these locales. After graduating high school, he served as a radioman in the U.S. Navy aboard an LPD. After his enlistment ended, Keene worked a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer. Among them were stints as a foundry worker, truck driver, data entry clerk, dockworker, telemarketer, customer service representative, repo man, bouncer, disc jockey, salesman, store manager, daycare instructor, custodian. In interviews, he credits this dive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leisure Books
Leisure Books was a mass market paperback publisher specializing in horror and thrillers that operated from 1957 to 2010. In the company's early years, it also published fantasy, science fiction, Westerns, and the Wildlife Treasury card series. Leisure Books offered a book sales club service. Typically two free books were provided as an initial inducement. After that two books were sent on a monthly basis. Readers would have ten days to keep or return. If kept there would be a discount on the purchase price. From around 1982 onward, Leisure Books was an imprint of Dorchester Publishing, shifting the company's focus away from fantasy and science fiction and more towards horror. As such, Leisure published novels and collections by a number of horror's notable authors, including Douglas Clegg, Stacy Dittrich, Ray Garton, J. F. Gonzalez, Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Deborah LeBlanc, Edward Lee, Ronald Malfi, Graham Masterton, T. V. Olsen, and Sarah Pinboroug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2004. Events *January **The poet Jang Jin-sung, in trouble with the North Korean authorities, defects to South Korea. **The Richard & Judy Book Club is launched on UK daytime television. *February – Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's '' The Last Crossing'' to be read across the nation. *February 16 – Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first official national poet, the Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament. * May 23 – Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens to the public. *June 1 – Controversy surrounds '' Battle Royale'' by Koushun Takami (高見広春), when an 11-year-old fan of the story in Sasebo, Nagasaki, murders her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimics a scene from the story. *October 14 – Edinburgh becomes UNESCO's first City of Literature. * October 31 – Denoël in Paris publishes Irène Némirovsky's '' Suite français ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
