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In this book of chilling horror stories, there are a varitiety of monsters. There are the Old Ones who once ruled the earth and will rule again, hostile to humankind. A boy who comes by at twilight to play is more than he seems. A man goes through a warp and space and time to learn a horrible truth about himself. An old preacher goes to church and discovered that all the old members to whom he preached have returned, including the dead ones. A...

Slipknot and Other Dark Poems has a few "horror poems, " but the poetry is mainly literary poetry covering dark subjects--death, infedility, war, etc. From the small disappointments of everyday life to the inevitable horror of death, these poems bring those events and fears to life. Although the style is different from John Updike's poetry or Raymond Carver's prose or David Lynch's films, the subject matter is similar. A poem in this book may ...

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Philosophy begins in wonder."-AristotleRemember when you were a child and incessantly asked your parents "Why?" You still had that childhood gift of wondering about everything from the simple "Why can't I touch the stove eye when it's red?" to the most profound questions people can ask "Why can't I see God if He's real?"A common perception of philosophers is of the wizened old guru, sitting on a mountain top contemplating his navel, or worse, ...

When Summer Ends, The Dark Days BeginWhosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.Matthew 12:32Jeffrey Conley sits beside Aunt Jenny at Sunday evening service, the hard wooden bench serving as security in the midst of chaos. He has come home - to a land of loss. Parents, dead. Grandpare...

A young boy. An old man. And a journey of the heart.My fraternal twin, Michael, died two hours after birth, drowning from fluid in his lungs. When I was two, my Mom and Dad were killed in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer. I was reared by Granddaddy and Granny, who had lived with my folks in the same rented home. I remembered neither my parents' lives nor their deaths. I suppose that's a blessing and a curse. My grandparents had provi...

Rhetoric is a natural choice for UX work."-Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group, author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"I really like the definition of experience architecture. As Potts and Salvo write in their introduction, 'experience architecture requires that we understand ecosystems of activity, rather than simply considering single-task scenarios.'"-Donald Norman, Nielsen Norman Group, author of The Design of Everyd...

Rhetoric is a natural choice for UX work."--Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group, author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"I really like the definition of experience architecture. As Potts and Salvo write in their introduction, 'experience architecture requires that we understand ecosystems of activity, rather than simply considering single-task scenarios.'"--Donald Norman, Nielsen Norman Group, author of The Design of Ever...

This is a stunning illustrated exploration of Sunderland's built heritage.

It is a lazy summer day in the Appalachian foothills of Tennessee, much like the day before, and the day before that. Everything seems normal - at least on the surface, like an idyllic, pastoral painting, the sky dyed with pastels of blue and white, the ground carpeted with dark green fescue and bluegrass, a clapboard farmhouse resting on top of a hill, sugar maples, oaks and Eastern red cedars providing welcome shade from the heat of a Tennes...