Wraiths of the Broken Land

Author: S. Craig Zahler
Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
A brutal and unflinching tale that takes many of its cues from both cinema and pulp horror, Wraiths of the Broken Land is like no Western you’ve ever seen or read. Desperate to reclaim two kidnapped sisters who were forced into prostitution, the Plugfords storm across the badlands and blast their way through Hell. This gritty, character-driven piece will have you by the throat from the very first page and drag you across sharp rocks for its unrelenting duration. Prepare yourself for a savage Western experience that combines elements of Horror, Noir and Asian ultra-violence. You’ve been warned. Praise from Kurt Russell, Joe R. Lansdale, Booklist, Jack Ketchum, and Ed Lee: "Zahler's a fabulous story teller whose style catapults his reader into the turn of the century West with a ferocious sense of authenticity." -Kurt Russell, star of Tombstone, Escape from New York, Dark Blue, and Death Proof "If you're looking for something similar to what you've read before, this ain't it. If you want something comforting and predictable, this damn sure ain't it. But if you want something with storytelling guts and a weird point of view, an unforgettable voice, then you want what I want, and that is this." -Joe R. Lansdale, author of The Bottoms, Mucho Mojo, and Savage Season" "[C]ompulsively readable.... Fans of Zahler's A Congregation of Jackals (2010) will be satisfied; think Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. [C]lever mayhem ... leads to a riveting climax." -Booklist "[A] classic Western that's been twisted into the shape of a snarling monster...." -Gabino Iglesias, Out Of The Gutter Online "It would be utterly insufficient to say that WRAITHS is the most diversified and expertly written western I've ever read."-Edward Lee, author of The Bighead and Gast. "WRAITHS always rings true, whether it's visiting the depths of despair, the fury of violence, or the fragile ties that bind us together for good or ill. It's a Western with heart and intelligence, always vivid, with characters you will detest or care about or both, powerfully written." -Jack Ketchum, author of Off Season and The Girl Next Door

Corpus Chrome, Inc.

Author: S. Craig Zahler
Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
Decades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a "mannequin," that can revive, sustain and interface with a cryonically-preserved human brain. Like all new technology, it is copyrighted. Hidden behind lawyers and a chrome facade, the inscrutable organization resurrects a variety of notable minds, pulling the deceased back from oblivion into a world of animated sculpture, foam rubber cars, dissolving waste and strange terrorism. Nobody knows how Corpus Chrome, Inc. determines which individuals should be given a second life, yet myriad people are affected. Among them are Lisanne Breutschen, the composer who invented sequentialism with her twin sister, and Champ Sappline, a garbage man who is entangled in a war between the third, fourth and fifth floors of a New York City apartment building. In the Spring of 2058, Corpus Chrome, Inc. announces that they will revive Derek W.R. Dulande--a serial rapist and murderer who was executed thirty years ago for his crimes. The public is horrified by the decision, and before long, the company's right to control the lone revolving door between life and death will be violently challenged...

Ridley Scott

Author: Vincent LoBrutto
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813177103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
With celebrated works such as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator, Ridley Scott has secured his place in Hollywood. This legendary director and filmmaker has had an undeniable influence on art and the culture of filmmaking, but is also a respected media businessman. In Ridley Scott: A Biography, Vincent LoBrutto delves into Ridley Scott's oeuvre in a way that allows readers to understand the yin and yang of his exceptional career. Presented is a unique crosscut between the biographical facts of Ridley Scott's personal life—his birth and early days in northeast England, his life in New York City—and his career in Hollywood as a director and producer of television commercials, TV series, miniseries, and feature films. Every film is presented, analyzed, and probed for a greater understanding of the visionary, his personality, and his thought process, for a deeper perception of his astounding work and accomplishments. The voices of cast and crew who have worked with Ridley Scott, as well as the words of the man himself, are woven throughout this book for a fully realized, critical biography, revealing the depth of the artist and his achievements.

A Congregation of Jackals

Author: S. Craig Zahler
Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
In 1888 Oswell Danford is living a hard but satisfying life as a rancher in Virginia when he receives an unexpected telegram. A wedding invitation should be cause to celebrate but not when it means he'll have to face past deeds that he's deeply ashamed of. Now he and his brother, along with their ex-compatriot, an inveterate gambler from New York, will have to travel to Montana Territory to settle an old score they'd nearly forgotten. They will join the expectant congregation at the church for the marriage of their former brother-in-arms. But while everyone else will be wishing a blissful future for the happy couple they will be praying the darkness from their past doesn't devour the entire town. A Congregation of Jackals is an unrelenting tale of betrayal and revenge told with a precision and brutality that will leave you breathless and haunted. Fans of Zahler's breakout hits Bone Tomahawk and Wraiths of the Broken Land will be floored by this, originally the first installment of his western horror trilogy.

Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos

Author: S. Craig Zahler
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506733077
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
A supernatural sci-fi graphic novel written and illustrated by S. Craig Zahler, the award-winning film director of Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete. An alien spacecraft the size of a city materializes over the Pacific Ocean and the nations of the world jointly engage this enigmatic and incommunicative visitor with force. This battle results in large-scale destruction on both sides, but does not answer any of the questions that will haunt humanity: What are these utterly inhuman creatures? Where did they come from? Why did they choose to visit our planet? And—most importantly—are more forces on the way? For the bereaved billionaire Carlton Land, renowned biologist Aimee O'Donnell, and the brilliant, but blunt USAAF Chief Scientist Kenneth Yamazaki, these questions must be answered in order to safeguard the future of the human race. Collects the original graphic novel published as an oversized hardcover with black and white art; this story is a haunting odyssey that you will not want to miss.

Focus On: 100 Most Popular English-language Film Directors

Author: Wikipedia contributors
Publisher: e-artnow sro
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1455

Book Description

Mean Business on North Ganson Street

Author: S. Craig Zahler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466853514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
A hardened city detective is sent to a hellhole rust belt town in Missouri where violent crime is skyrocketing and police officers are showing up dead in S Craig Zahler's crime thriller Mean Business on North Ganson Street. A distraught businessman kills himself after a short, impolite conversation with a detective named Jules Bettinger. Because of this incident, the unkind (but decorated) policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from Arizona to the frigid north, where he will work for an understaffed precinct in Victory, Missouri. This collapsed rustbelt city is a dying beast that devours itself and its inhabitants...and has done so for more than four decades. Its streets are covered with dead pigeons and there are seven hundred criminals for every law enforcer. Partnered with a boorish and demoted corporal, Bettinger investigates a double homicide in which two policemen were slain and mutilated. The detective looks for answers in the fringes of the city and also in the pasts of the cops with whom he works—men who stomped on a local drug dealer until he was disabled. Bettinger soon begins to suspect that the double homicide is not an isolated event, but a prelude to a series of cop executions...

Stranger in a Strange Land

Author: Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780441790340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with "psi" powers--telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others--and yet with complete innocence regarding the mores of man.

The Broken King

Author: D. N. Bruce
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398479489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 741

Book Description
Far from his home in the Kingdom of Ferinatia, Thorn continues his journey through the dying world of Elcina and the plan to bring the disunited realms and peoples together that he may guide them from the dying world into the safety of his own. With the kingdoms of Isthia and Taroth behind him, and the unexpected departure of the Ranee, Thorn enters the land of the Keegan nomads accompanied by the wolf pup Rark and the living crystal Lorak Ledel intent on finding a way to unify the tribes to his cause and find Princess Ranee who fled here after the destruction in Rata. Meanwhile, the Kingdom of Varth prepares for their invasion of his world and his own kingdom. Secretly controlled by the Sorcerer Tarna, now emboldened by the murder of Thorn’s friend Penias, who was known as the Crown Prince Jarel Whitethorn. As Thorn enters the nomad lands, the Varthians stretch out their hand against the nomads and all other kingdoms and peoples who would stand against them, and their sorcerous leader.

Broken Hope

Author: Nicole Fox
Publisher: MBK Hanson Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
This is book 3 and the finale of the Motor Saints MC romance series! I’ll break her wings to keep her here with me. We struck a deal to make her mine – for one night only. But once I’ve had a taste, I just can’t let her fly away. A bad boy’s woman is his for life. Especially when his baby’s in her womb. DANTE She was in the hospital the night I got shot. With a bullet in my body, I was hallucinating like a f**king lunatic. But the image of Selena was seared into my brain. Her untouched curves demanded that I take them. And when I somehow find her again, that’s exactly what I decide to do. But to my surprise, she beats me to the punch. And she offers up a deal crazier than anything I could have dreamed up. She wants me to take her, again and again, until she gets what she wants… A baby in her belly. SELENA It was a deal struck out of desperation. My mother withering away in a godforsaken hospital bed. All I want is to fulfill her dying wish: To give her the baby she knows I need. But there’s no man in my life up to the task. I’m alone and desperate. That’s where the biker comes in. He struts into the bar with an infectious cocky swagger. I saw him being wheeled into the hospital just hours ago, with a bullet in his chest… How is he even alive? And yet, here he is. With a smirk on his face and brawny shoulders peeking from beneath the cuff of his sleeves. I’ve got enough alcohol in me to remove the last barriers between my brain and my mouth, so the request comes spilling out before I can even think to stop myself. “I want you to give me a baby.” There’s no going back now. Submitting to the biker is a paradise high I’ve never felt before. But a bad boy always comes with skeletons in the closet. And Dante’s enemies will do whatever it takes to make him suffer. So when they discover who I am and what’s inside me, they come after us with deadly force and fury. I have to trust the man who got me pregnant. Because if he can’t protect us, no one can.