The Dark Descent

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If you could have only one anthology of dark stories, this would be the one to have. Having observed that "fans of horror fiction most often restrict their reading to books and stories given a horror category label, thus missing some of the finest pleasures in that fictional mode," David G. Hartwell assembles here 56 important tales within an insightful critical framework; his purpose is to "clear the air and broaden future considerations of horror." Several well-known classics are included, but there are also dozens of lesser-known horror tales, including many by science fiction and literary writers. Get one copy for yourself. Get another for that friend or relative who doesn't understand why you like to read horror.

Book Description

In The Dark Descent, hailed as one of the most important anthologies ever to examine horror fiction, editor David G. Hartwell traces the complex history of horror in literature back to the earliest short stories. The Dark Descent, which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, showcases the finest of these ever written--from the time-honored classics of Edgar Allan Poe, D.H. Lawrence, and Edith Wharton to the contemporary writing of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Ray Bradbury.

Customer Reviews:

I must be missing something.......2007-08-30

Why all the 5 star reviews? Am I really that picky or is everyone else that easy? Did we read the same book, I mean the WHOLE over 1,000 big pages? Well enough questions, there were some really excellent stories in this compilation namely "The Crowd", "The Autopsy", "Sticks", "Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper", "Dread", "How Love Came To Professor Guildia", "MacIntosh Willy", sadly those were in the minority. Some stories as in most compilations this vast were from early 1900's and the language requires careful reading to interpret the words or phrases used in those times. Also so many stories stacked side by side with winners like those mentioned above seemed to have almost nothing at all to do with horror and left me completely bored such as "The Asian Shore", "night side", others were just about unreadable and must have been included on a bet or a favor of some sort such as "The Jolly Corner" and "Larger Than Oneself". Glad I only paid over $6 from an Amazon Marketplace shop instead of the $29.95 cover price.

Not Free SF Reader.......2007-08-04

Part of a larger series that takes a look at various types of horror writing, with an introduction giving some detail and thoughts on the topic, as well as to each author and story.

This is a good collection, and is well to the ghost story end of the spectrum, in general.

Fabulous Formless Darkness : Smoke Ghost - Fritz Leiber
Fabulous Formless Darkness : Seven American Nights - Gene Wolfe
Fabulous Formless Darkness : The Signal-Man - Charles Dickens
Fabulous Formless Darkness : Crouch End - Stephen King
Fabulous Formless Darkness : Night-Side - Joyce Carol Oates
Fabulous Formless Darkness : Seaton's Aunt - Walter de la Mare
Fabulous Formless Darkness : Clara Militch - Ivan Turgenev
Fabulous Formless Darkness : The Repairer of Reputations - Robert W. Chambers
Fabulous Formless Darkness : The Beckoning Fair One - Oliver Onions
Fabulous Formless Darkness : What Was It? - Fitz-James O'Brien
Fabulous Formless Darkness : The Beautiful Stranger - Shirley Jackson
Fabulous Formless Darkness : The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce
Fabulous Formless Darkness : Afterward - Edith Wharton
Fabulous Formless Darkness : The Willows - Algernon Blackwood
Fabulous Formless Darkness : The Asian Shore - Thomas M. Disch
Fabulous Formless Darkness : The Hospice - Robert Aickman
Fabulous Formless Darkness : A Little Something for Us Tempunauts - Philip K. Dick

Spectral look.

3.5 out of 5

Play things.

3.5 out of 5

Danger light haunting.

4 out of 5

Mythos scoffer mortality.

4 out of 5

Seance surprise.

3.5 out of 5

Ghost house.

3.5 out of 5

Poisoned woman not all gone.

3.5 out of 5

PR work not nice, free death not popular.

4 out of 5

Loopy writer problems.

4 out of 5

Nightmare rather solid it appears.

4 out of 5

Our house got lost.

3 out of 5

Invisible monster.

4 out of 5

Ghost visit.

3 out of 5

Wind in the tree monsters.

4.5 out of 5

Turkish twists.

3 out of 5

Lodging lacks lager and fun.

3 out of 5

Time to avoid own deaths.

4 out of 5

A fine anthology for the horror afficianado.......2005-12-22

This huge, (topping out at just over 1000 pages!) collection of some of the finest tales from the masters of horror has it all. It was wonderful to read works I had not encountered over the years, along with some of the classics of the genre. Some personal favorites were the Lovecraftian "Crouch End" (King), a truly bizarre and unclassifiable tale, "The Swords" (Aickman), a masterful work of understated horror, "The Summer People" (Jackson), and a classic ghost story, "The Beckoning Fair One" (Onions) A one stop shop for the fan of all things scary.

Multitudinous tome for the horror and preternatural aficionado.......2005-08-23

This publication rivals most of the horror/ mystery compilations printed elsewhere. Some of the most consequential and prolific ink slingers of the creepy and the dreary are featured here, and they don't disappoint.

Here, in this volume, you will find it all. The works of King, Bradbury, Jackson, Lovecraft, Poe and many others are at your reading pleasure. Some of my personal favorites: The Beach (King); The Call of the Cthulhu (Lovecraft); Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (Bloch)...I could go on for ever.

Alone in the Library---with Spooks........2004-10-26

Disaster! That super-secret hush-hush Project the military was supposed to have under control has torn a rift into another dimension just ten miles from town, and maniacal flesh-hungry monsters are pouring through by the score, tearing their shrieking victims apart and turning the world as you know it into a charnel house. You've got to pack up and get outta Dodge quick---but what to take? Clothes, boots, food, hunting knife, guns and ammo, extra fuel cans, chainsaw---oh, and if you're a horror junkie like me, you've gotta have reading material during the Siege, right? And since you'll be holing up a long time---maybe forever---the tome you choose had better be a good one.

Forced to haul one single volume off your horror shelf before you pack everything into the heavily armored civvie Hum-Vee, I would choose David G. Hartwell's masterful compilation "The Dark Descent." This Leviathan of a book is chock-full of more than one-thousand pages of the best horror ever written by some of the Grand-Masters of the genre (H.P. Lovecraft, Poe, Stephen King, M.R. James) and some of their lesser known adepts and apprentices. For such a modest price, having this much shivery, ghoulish goodness stuffed between the covers is nearly an embarrassment of riches.

Anthologies are often treacherous ground, and success hinges on an editor's style and judgment. Hartwell demonstrates his impeccable taste and considerable acuity in the selections he makes; best of all he begins the collection with a remarkably astute, entertaining---and mercifully concise---little essay tracing the evolution of the terror and horror tale. Certainly we are treated to the seminal classics of the genre, and a few of the tales are overly represented in many other collections---but as horror crown jewels, they have their place here. H.P. Lovecraft is represented by two ensanguined ambassadors: "The Call of Cthulhu", a sweeping account of global panic, terror and slaughter spread by the resurgence of a primitive cult of an obscure Squid-God, and the Poe-esque "The Rats in the Walls". M.R. James has a less auspicious presence, "The Ash-Tree" being one of his less powerful works and an inadequate introduction to the Master.

Hartwell's King selections are slightly puzzling; "The Reach" is too languid for its own good, while "The Monkey" is tacky and underawing---but then Hartwell knocks it out of the ballfield with the relatively rare Lovecraftian "Crouch End" which, serves up a viciously psychedelic and very different side of King, to say nothing of providing a little side-trip to a part of London (thankfully) not on any map.

Karl Edward Wagner's "Sticks" presages by a quarter-century the discovery of liches in the woods by "Blair Witch"'s unlucky film students, Clive Barker details an experiment in mortal terror gone horribly awry in "Dread", Joyce Carol Oates proves there is a fate worse than Death in "Night-Side", and Lucy Clifford chronicles what happens to naughty little children in "The New Mother".

There are at least ten riveting tales of vintage dread here, any one of which justifies the price of admission. If you haven't met late British terror-writer Robert Aickman, you have three opportunities in "Dark Descent", although "The Hospice" is by far the most ambiguous---and disquieting. "Seven American Nights", an apocalyptic travelogue written by a young Turkish man traveling through a wasted and genetically twisted future America, is by turns terrifying, acutely repulsive, and melancholy, a peculiarly potent spiked little horror-potion cloaked as travelogue by fantasy master Gene Wolfe. Taken together with Thomas Disch's disorienting "The Asian Shore", they might make you rethink getting away from the tour group the next time you spelunk through a strange land.

Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows" conjures up the horror of the spheres that's moved its haunts to remote islands in the Danube; Walter de la Mare's "Seaton's Aunt" is a rich, deliciously unhinged little crawlfest instantly recognizable to anyone who has forced himself through an unpleasant evening with an unctuous, intimidating in-law.

Hartwell includes a number of authors who rarely ventured into the horror genre: William Faulkner does Southern Gothic proud in "A Rose for Emily", Flannery O'Connor demonstrates the wisdom of never judging a book---even a Bible---by its cover in "Good Country People", and Edith Wharton whips up a kind of delayed-blast spook in "Afteward"---to say nothing of writing one of the finest ghost tales of all time.

Hartwell makes some missteps, perhaps unavoidable in such a massive collection. Bishop's "Within the Walls of Tyre" is pretentious and dull, and "The Roaches", "If Damon Comes", and Philip K. Dick's time-twisting "Little Something for us Tempunauts" may give you chills, but they left me cold and bored. But these are forgivable lapses in a collection so varied and rich.

One story in particular that I can't stop thinking about is Michael Shea's unexpected, grisly little delight "The Autopsy", about an aging, cancerous coroner called to a remote mountain town to conduct autopsies on the bodies of miners killed in a mysterious mine explosion---and who rapidly, terrifyingly shifts roles from examiner to subject. It's not a perfect story---not in style, nor even in its final revelation---but that said it's nasty, and remorselessly surgical, and you'll never forget it. Like most of the darksome little nuggets of terror in this vast volume, it's like a tooth you've had removed---you can't stop yourself from digging your tongue into the raw, fleshy gap.

So remember---as civilization collapses and the howls of the mutated and deranged grow closer to your hideaway, throw the bolts, load the rifle, and tuck yourself in with "The Dark Descent"---at least you'll have the ultimate grimoire containing the very finest tales of terror until those crafty army scientists come up with a solution to save the day. And if they don't? Well, you *do* have 1,000 pages to tide you over.

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Duffy
This one is a good one
Mainly of interest to divers
GOOD READ FOR DIVERS ON EMPRESS OF IRELAND SINKING
A must read for aspiring and experienced technical divers

Dark Descent
Kevin F. McMurray
Manufacturer: International Marine
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ASIN: 0071456309

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"Dark Descent makes the reader a vicarious participant in what is a very extreme sport."—Philadelphia Inquirer

On May 29, 1914, the passenger liner Empress of Ireland was struck by the freighter Storstad and sank in fifteen minutes, taking more than 1,000 victims with her. It remains one of the largest losses of life ever in a maritime accident.

At more than a hundred feet deep in the frigid Gulf of St. Lawrence, diving the Empress is like trying to navigate an unfamiliar sixty-story building lying on its side at a forty-five-degree angle, in pitch blackness with only a flashlight. In Dark Descent, Kevin McMurray takes us deep into the bowels of the lost ship, first to relive her tragic death and then to join the divers who have probed the wreck's secrets. It's an adventure from which some divers don't return.

"Impressively researched. . . . For those who love the lure of the deep water and the mysteries of shipwrecks, this specialized history will be a pleasure."—Publishers Weekly

"Kevin has a remarkable knack of adding life and realism. A great job."—R. W. Hamilton, Chairman of the Board, Divers Alert Network

Customer Reviews:

Duffy.......2007-07-30

Beautifully written! McMurray shares with us his passion for the Empress and all of her history. He shares with us her majestic beauty above the sea, as well as beneath the sea. I never knew of the Empress of Ireland until reading this book, and I will visit her site one day. McMurray not only writes about the Empress and the divers that love her, but he makes the reader want to be included in that world, too. Thank you Mr. McMurray for writing such a touching story.

This one is a good one.......2007-02-08

A good book, a great book, actually. Although I'm more impressed with The Last Attempt, The true Story of Freediving Champion Audrey Mestre and the Mystery of her death" by Carlos Serra.

That book gave me goose bumps, especially on the way the whole story develops and the twist in the end. Expect something like The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis, because the final point about Audrey's death is in your face throughout the narrative but hard to see until it's told by the author. Amazing book The Last Attempt!

Mainly of interest to divers.......2006-10-15

While the book reads quickly, it is no page-turner. Unlike Shadow Divers or The Last Dive, the descriptions of the dives were not gripping. I did find the local politics of controlling the dive site to be interesting, but only a diver would.

The reason the book is not a page-turner is that there is no spine to the story. True, there is a central theme to the book, namely, the Empress of Ireland, but that is a ship, not a person. Stories about objects simply can't evoke much emotion from readers unless the object is anthropromorphized (think Pinocchio). Hollywood has made a number of movies about cars, guns, hotel rooms, and other things that pass from one person to another and what happens to those people while in possession of the thing, and those movies all suffer from the same problem: they are episodic in nature. There is nothing inherently bad about being episodic, but a book of short stories usually can't sustain your interest in the same way as a novel can.

So Dark Descent is good reportage of a series of incidents involving the Empress of Ireland, but I think it of interest mainly to divers. I wouldn't recommend it to a friend unless the friend was a diver or an armchair technical diver.

GOOD READ FOR DIVERS ON EMPRESS OF IRELAND SINKING.......2005-10-25

The sinking of the Empress of Ireland after a collision in the St. Lawrence Seaway is one of the most tragic shipwreck stories of all time. The author does a fine job of chronicling the numerous expeditions to this wreck, the dangers of diving it ( not for beginners) and the actual story of the 1914 tragedy. Mr. McMurray himself has dived this wreck and his first hand knowlege is evident in this well researched and equally well written book. This is a must have for the historian and the diver.

A must read for aspiring and experienced technical divers .......2005-08-19

I enjoyed the first book, Deep Descent and found it a good reference book for my technical diving students. This book was equally as good. It combines the history of the wreck as well as the history of the diving that has taken place on the wreck. It also includes some excellent information on the diving fatalities that have occured on this wreck. If you want to learn from the mistakes of others this book will help.

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tremendous first book
Dark Shadows Lives!
lara parker nails it in a bewitching way
well written - highly entertaining
Persephone Unhinged

Dark Shadows : Angélique's Descent
Lara Parker
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
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ASIN: 0061057517

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Two of the most popular Dark Shadows characters, Barnabas Collins and Angelique, were eternally bound by love and hate. Now, actress Lara Parker, Angelique herself, tells how it all began.

A passion born in ecstasy...

The dashing heir of a New England shipping magnate, Barnabas Collins captured the heart of the exquisite, young Angelique amidst the sensual beauty of Martinique, her island home. But Angelique's brief happiness is doomed when Barnabas cruelly deserts her and becomes engaged to another. Little, though, does Barnabas know of the evil his betrayal will unleash...

And destroyed by jealousy and betrayal

For Angelique is no ordinary woman. Raised in the mysterious black art of voodoo witchcraft, she has long ago pledged her soul to darkness and become immortal. Vowing to torment and destroy Barnabas, a vengeful Angelique damns him to eternal life as a vampire--a companion to accompany her forever. Little, though, does Angelique understand the depth of Barnabas's fury...

Vividly imagined, grippingly written, each Dark Shadows novel is filled with the eroticism, supernatural suspense, and spellbinding storytelling that has made this classic daytime serial a timeless hit.

Customer Reviews:

tremendous first book.......2006-08-03

I was a big fan of the Dark Shadows series as a kid. I came across this novel on amazon and I was eager to read it because who could provide better insight into the character of Angelic than Lara parker, the actress who played her in the series. She did a great job. The story was well written, interesting and made me feel as if the story picked up right where the series left off. I enjoyed the story immensely and read it from cover to cover. Although I have yet to read her new novel "the Salem branch", if it's as half as good as Angelic's descent, it will be worth buying the book. I find it hard to believe that any die hard dark shadows fan would not enjoy this story. It provides mystery, intrique, suspense and distress in dealing with both Angelic's as well as Barnabus's character. It's a tremendous story and every True Dark Shadows fan should read this book.

Dark Shadows Lives!.......2004-11-06

Reading this one felt like watching the old show, but with even more detail.There is another book on the horizon by Lara, but when? Anyone know?

lara parker nails it in a bewitching way.......2004-01-03

the novel angelique's descent is one of the years surprises yes it is true she is one of the stars that stared in the original series so she only could tell it ms. parker writes beautifully as she looked on dark shadows and she even attends the yearly festivals she answers all the questions that most d ark shadows fans would like to know about her from when her father sold her to her mother's death to the first meeting of barnabas, this is a must read for all of her fans and fans of dark shadows. fans will be waiting in much anticapation for her next dark shadows novel,for me i cant wait to,as i was one of those kids that couldnt wait to get home from school to see what would happen next ms. parker helped the show to be fun as she does in her novel i recommand "angelique's descent " to all you will be delighted to her book.

well written - highly entertaining.......2003-12-13

This book is so good I couldn't put it down. You wouldn't even have to be a Dark Shadows fan (I am of course) to enjoy this book. My daughter is now reading and she can't put it down either. This book should have gotten more publicity. Lara Parker is an excellent writer and I hope she will continue to write books of this same genre.

Persephone Unhinged.......2002-09-08

Only a Scorpio or the woman who originally played the central character of the deranged witch, Angelique, on the original Dark Shadows soap opera could have written this fabulously demented story of mad revenge - and, happily, Lara Parker is both.

The first half of this novel is invented out of whole cloth by Parker, since the supernatural soap opera never delved that deeply into Angelique's beginnings in the late 18th century, and is surprisingly clever and interesting. Angelique is taken from her nature-healing mother by her cane plantation-owning father in Martinique, who correctly surmises that if he can convince the slaves his young daughter is really the voodoo goddess Erzulie - when she is in reality, of course, nothing but his own mouthpiece - he can get them to do anything he wants, and bear increasing hardships. Angelique, however, has a genuine knack for true witchcraft, which manifests itself over time and ultimately foments an uprising of the very slaves her evil father wished to subdue.

The second half of Angelique's epic story is already familiar to fans of the series, though they will no doubt enjoy reading Parker's well-written rendition of it: Angelique escapes the chaos of Martinique, becomes personal maid to the spoiled young French society darling Josette Dupres, and falls in love with wealthy adventurer Barnabas Collins - who, after a passionate affair with Angelique, ends up betrothed by circumstance to Josette, initiating an increasingly ugly vendetta-by-witchcraft that ultimately costs both Barnabas and Angelique their lives.

Parker is not the most polished of writers - she is an actress, by profession - but her style is smooth and easy, and the story is well thought-out, well told, and genuinely exciting and fascinating. It's also surprisingly well researched, only off on one or two minor historical points that are really of no consequence.

Hopefully, this series will continue - and, if it does, hopefully Parker will write another. This book is currently out of print, but is well worth searching out, both for fans of the original series and for fans of Anne Rice-style supernatural/historical romances.

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Should be reissued

The Dark Descent

Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Should be reissued.......2006-08-21

This is one of the best anthologies of horror tales ever compiled. It reflects the period approx 20 years ago when horror novels were becoming prominent for the first time, and so Hartwell compiled a very thorough and thoughtful collection of shorter fiction to survey the field. The range and quality level are both incredible. His introduction now seems somewhat dated, but he does offer some very insightful thoughts concerning styles of horror fiction and the various possible interpretations more careful readers may consider. My only complaint is the sheer weight of the book - at well over 1,000 pages, it is not easy to hold while reading! This should definitely be reissued with an updated introduction, more stories, and divided into two volumes. "The Dark Descent" is probably the best single introduction to short horror fiction ever issued and it deserves another publication.

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I dare you to put this down!!!

Dark Descent
Andrew Pyper
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
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ASIN: 0743453239

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#1 international bestselling author Andrew Pyper, critically acclaimed for his novel Lost Girls, returns with a gripping story of raw courage, crippling fear, and the overwhelming human instinct for survival.

At the dawn of the new millennium, twenty-something dot-com millionaires Wallace and Bates travel to Brazil to market their breakthrough product, Hypothesys -- a "morality machine" designed to help people make the best decisions of their lives. But when they impulsively join an eco-tour deep into the Amazon rain forest, they may have sealed their own dire fates....In the dead of night, their boat is attacked, and Wallace and Bates are kidnapped along with their enigmatic female interpreter. Imprisoned and savagely tortured, they struggle to hold on to their humanity. But after Wallace engineers a violent escape, the survivors' own hidden dark natures begin to emerge -- posing a threat more lethal than either the jungle that surrounds them, or the merciless gunmen who pursue them.

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I dare you to put this down!!!.......2004-04-22

A fantastic read- pure story from beginning to end. Psychological and physical limits are tested in this gripping story. A dark and frightening look into the nature of man. Highly recommended!!

9-11 Descent into Tyranny: The New World Order's Dark Plans to Turn Earth into a Prison Planet

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Important Pieces of the Puzzle
Not supported by facts or logic.
Listen
a good read
Decent expose of Oklahoma and both WTC attacks

9-11 Descent into Tyranny: The New World Order's Dark Plans to Turn Earth into a Prison Planet
Alex Jones
Manufacturer: Progressive Press
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ASIN: 1575581132

Customer Reviews:

Important Pieces of the Puzzle.......2007-03-03

I agree with those that suggest that the author goes over the top sometimes, but I will also be quite explicit in saying that I think Alex Jones is a very important part of the patriotic truth movement, and all that he does is in my view at least 80% vital to improving public intelligence in the public interest.

This book plays out a theme that relates the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma with 9-11, and I read through it at the same time that I was watching the DVD "Painful Questions" which actually had news clips about additional unexploded bombs being found in the Federal Building after the fact.

I am increasingly frustrated as I read so many of these books, each with vital tid-bits, many of which I can see correlating with one another, but yet no one anywhere has cut the spines off all these great books, digitized them, and created a visual diagram that makes sense of all this.

One thing I am certain of: the White House and Larry Silverstein are both hiding information from the public, and one day we will have proof of the degree to which elements of our own government allowed 9-11 to happen and went the extra step of helping to murder thousands of Americans solely and exclusively to manipulate a mandate for combining a police state at home with a unilateral ;militarism-terrorism abroad.

Not supported by facts or logic........2006-08-05

It is a sad sign of the times that so many people have apparently swallowed Alex Jones's ramblings and disconnected assertions hook, line and sinker.

Listen.......2006-07-11

This may not be the total truth and there is no book that can explain the total truth about 9/11. But i'll bet you Alex Jones comes closer to exposing the government involvement in 9/11 than the corporate media. What iam trying to say is Jones is more credible than the media which is twisted to what your supposed to believe. And what your supposed to believe is not true. The US government was involved in 9/11 and used it to create a never ending war, justify taking away our liberties so they can become more powerful and make us scared so we let them take our liberties away. If you cant see that by now you never will. Spread the word, we must be heard.

a good read.......2006-06-08

no matter how many times you've watched 9-11 road to tyranny you still pick up some new things. Same with his book, which even tho it covers a lot of the 9-11 stuff, still has things which just make you angry.

The proof is in the pudding. The globalists openly talk about what they do and want to do.

Don't let them do it to you. Arm yourself with knowledge and with....just do it. Resist tyranny

Decent expose of Oklahoma and both WTC attacks.......2006-05-09

Alex Jones wowed me with his first 9-11 documentary THE ROAD TO TYRANNY that was made in 2002. It woke me up to the New World Order and confirmed my doubts that I had since day one. How could those buildings come down so fast anyway with the limited amount of jet fuel? How can different types of damage cause two uniform collapses that are so fast they defy the laws of gravity? These questions were not even touched by scientists until almost recently. Since Alex Jones' video/book came out only in 2002, it simply asks the rhetorical questions about how could they come down so fast and what about WTC 7 that wasn't even hit by a plane and had only small fires? He also quotes Lou Cachioli, a firefighter who told PEOPLE magazine he heard bombs in the buildings and a demolition expert friend of his who said on the day it happened that it was the most beautiful demolition he'd ever seen.

Jones hits on the main bullet points about 9-11 quickly and has paranthetical references to the relevant news articles. He talks about drills that simulated the actual 9-11 events before and during 9-11, the phony anthrax attack coming at a critial time - the patriot act renewal, government obstruction of terror investigation, cancelled flights by top Pentagon brass including Ashcroft before 9-11, insider trading, prior knowledge, CIA meeting with Bin Laden, the Bush-Bin Laden business connection, warnings from other nations and the David Schippers interview who talks about people refusing to take vital information on purpose and other things. Since 2002, more information has come out but the content here on 9-11 (one 50 page chapter) raises enough questions and doubts and points out too many "coincidences."

Before the 9-11 chapter, he spent a couple of chapters talking about the use of problem-reaction-solution throughout history. Of course he touches in Nero burning Rome, The USS Maine, The Lusitania, Hitler's Reichstag fire*, Pearl Harbour and Northwoods. These documented facts are kept down to a paragraph to probably save room but also demonstrate that government sponsored terrorism is nothing new; therefore we should not believe, "Oh the government would never do that."

*(Some modern day national socialists claim that the insane communist fellow in the thirties actually did set fire to the Reichstag and the Nazis were innocent and surprised (David Irving). However some say the Nazis probably let it happen. Paul Joseph Watson in his book Order Out of Chaos claims that Hitler's storm troopers used an underground passage that connected Goering's cellar with that of the Reichstag whereby they scattered gas to feed the flames when the lone communist nut who broke in set fire to his shirt.)*

After Alex Jones finishes with his 9-11 chapter, he moves on to how the citizens' liberties are being targeted by the government and how police forces are being trained to see citizens as their enemy and to act contrary to the constitution (a woman being brought to trial for exercising her fourth amendment rights after being stopped at a random check point, FBI terrorist manual targeting patriots, FEMA training whereby Christians and the founding fathers are branded as terrorists - a convenient way to get them to attack people who oppose the NWO). Alex Jones talks about random check points and the Delta Force taking over cities and running drills to take away guns and put people into detention camps. He also talks about one psy-op in particular where a false news story was put out by the government about a deadly virus outbreaks in one city. People believed the lies and went to the hospital afraid. "It's all part of conditioning the population."

Alex also quickly, but a bit superficially, touches on how children are being indoctrinated into living with big government and a cashless society through newscasts and even children's cartoons. He also talks about people being told that microchips are a good idea because they are for their protection against terrorism (has an Andy Rooney quotation saying chips are good for America). Alex also talks about how the military runs psy-ops in schools by running using mock terror drills and frightening children, training them to think a police state is normal. Alex says in his book at one of these drills a kid was shot in the face and nothing happened. I would have liked a source for that in his book and in his film THE ROAD TO TYRANNY.

Near the end, he has a quick spiel on the UN plan to control private property, poisoning our foods with flouride and aspartame, global warming as a phony scare tactic to grab land, and tainted vaccines that are basically word for word from his film. While these are common knowledge, Alex should have provided sources and could have spent a little more time on them instead of simply repeating verbatim what he said in his flim TRTT (or one could make the argument regaring the UN desire for land grabbing, 'hey, that's what his 1997 film DESTROYED BY DESGIN is for). A lot of times he says, "it is documented" or "it is a known fact." While true, he should still give more sources in some places - he could have given links or sources to check out that further elucidate the vaccine, flouride and aspartame scams.

Alex even says in the conclusion that this book is pretty much verbatim is 9-11 film THE ROAD TO TYRANNY but that it is meant to get this information to a wider audience, including the deaf. Alex Jones tends to hit important points in just a few sentences and give a source before moving on the next point quickly. While it does save room, a little more expansion on certain issues would improve the book. This is where Paul Joseph Watson's book comes in. His book is longer, has more detail on many of the same issues Alex touches on and fills in the gaps that Alex Jones' book creates. If you want top level documentation and a little more detailed explanation of certain things including historical backgrounds of government sponsored terrorism like MI5 infiltrating the IRA (Jones doesn't deal with this), Watson is the man. Watson seems to want to incorporate 9-11 into a wider paragidm whereas Jones wants to focus mainly on 9-11 and then give a small taste of the past and get it over with so we can begin our political activism or something. Don't get me wrong. Jones' film/book here is good and makes many good points, but Watson elucidates the issues a bit better. I got both books from the website oneheartbooks. This is a place that people NEED to go to incase you think you are too far away from Texas (Jones' residence) to get this book successfully in the mail.

P.S. If you use google correctly, Watson's and Jones' books are available from nwowatcher dot com in abridged pdf's.

P.P.S. Here is a table of contents for Jones' book - something that was lacking but should not have been.

Introduction - 5
I.The House of World Government - 15
II.Terror In History - 23
III.September 11, 2001 - 56
IV.The Bill of Rights-A Terrorist Manual - 105
V.Conclusion - 172
Appendix A:World Bankers Feed Off of Crumbling Economies - 175
Appendix B:Infowars Exclusive: Bohemian Grove - 191
Appendix C:Know Your Enemy-The Communist Manifesto - 207
Appendix D:Know Your Heritage-The Bill of Rights - 210

The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

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The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

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Surely one of America's most popular novelists, Stephen King has only recently begun to receive serious attention from scholars and literary critics. The Dark Descent assembles fifteen illuminating original essays that consider King from a variety of intellectual orientations, addressing the major novels and central thematic concerns that represent King's contributions to American letters and elevating King scholarship to a new level of critical discourse. This volume places King firmly within the canon of contemporary American fiction. The essayists are concerned with explicating the meanings of individual narratives and creating critical contexts for their interpretion. While covering a broad range of his works and using multiple theoretical approaches--including reader-response, mythic, psychoanalytic, and structuralist criticism--to offer insights into King's fiction, most of the essayists reflect on one of two central theses: that King's body of literature may be seen as having been deeply influenced by the mainstream traditions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European fictions, and that the narratives may be read as profound commentary on the major political and social tensions shaping contemporary American life. King's supernatural horrors reflect actual horrors, and his compelling style makes art out of horror fiction. A King chronology, bibliography and an expository introduction flank the analytical essays.

Dancing in the dark: A literary tour de force that stunningly portrays a housewife's descent into madness and murder

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Dancing in the dark: A literary tour de force that stunningly portrays a housewife's descent into madness and murder
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The Dark Descent

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The Dark Descent

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The evolution of the horror story through examples. Orange boards with black lettering. Stories by such authors as Steven King, HP Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, E Nesbit, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allen Poe, Joanna Russ, DH Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter de la Mare, Ivan Turgenev, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, and Philip K Dick.

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