Gargoyle Hunting Guide
Author | : Bob Trubshaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Carving (Decorative arts) |
ISBN | : 9781905646128 |
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Author | : Bob Trubshaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Carving (Decorative arts) |
ISBN | : 9781905646128 |
Author | : John Freeman Gill |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101970901 |
Both his family and his city are crumbling when thirteen-year-old Griffin Watts stumbles headlong into his estranged father’s illicit architectural salvage business in 1970s Manhattan. Griffin clambers up the façades of tenements and skyscrapers to steal their nineteenth-century architectural sculptures—gargoyles and sea monsters, goddesses and kings. As his father sees it, these evocative creatures, crafted by immigrant artisans, are an endangered species in an age of sweeping urban renewal. Desperate for money to help his artist mother keep their home, and yearning to connect with his father, Griffin fails to see that his father’s deepening obsession with preserving the treasures of Gilded Age New York endangers them all. As he struggles to hold his family together and build a first love with his girlfriend on a sturdier foundation than his parents’ marriage, Griffin must learn to develop himself into the man he wants to become, and discern which parts of his life may be salvaged—and which parts must be let go. Hilarious and poignant, this critically acclaimed debut is both a vivid love letter to a vanishing city and an intimate portrait of father and son. And it solves the mystery of a stunningly brazen architectural heist—the theft of an entire landmark building—that made the front page of The New York Times in 1974. With writing both tender and powerful, The Gargoyle Hunters brings a remarkable new voice to the canon of New York fiction.
Author | : Aurora Springer |
Publisher | : Aurora Springer Novels |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Paul Russ |
Publisher | : Zenescope Entertainment |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1937068706 |
Monsters surround us. They're everywhere; on TV, in movies ...they haunt our nightmares. But are they real? Do Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies really exist? And if so how can we survive against them? At last here is the comprehensive guide every Monster Hunter must have! Whether you're a weekend Bigfoot hunter or a hardcore Vampire slayer you simply can't afford not to own this book.
Author | : Susan Pesznecker |
Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2007-01-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1601639783 |
Gargoyles takes you on a journey into a mysterious world, through bestiaries and traveling menageries, past grotesques and chimeras, through medieval cities and guilds and into huge stone buildings. Gargoyles are an embodiment of form and function—serving a clear architectural purpose but, also, symbolically important. Whether warding off evil, frightening away fear or showcasing human foibles, when a gargoyle was placed on a building, people noticed. The book delves into historic models of arcane craftsmanship and architecture, considering the reasons for gargoyles coming into being and hearing the legends of the gargoyle, both mythic and modern. It, also, covers the emergence of stone creatures into popular culture. For modern magick users, Gargoyles explores the role of the gargoyle in magickal practice, including gargoyle use in elemental correspondences, stone magick, protection, warding, egregores, talismans, animal associations, ritual and spell work.
Author | : Janetta Rebold Benton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Gargoyles |
ISBN | : 9780789201829 |
A fresh and irresistible history of gargoyles-a society of stone creatures perched high above the workaday world. Includes an invaluable guide to gargoyle sites throughout western Europe.
Author | : Bob Trubshaw |
Publisher | : Heart of Albion |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture, Medieval |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Davidson |
Publisher | : Random House Canada |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2009-06-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307371638 |
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him. And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.
Author | : Gary R. Varner |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2007-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1435711424 |
The symbols and strange images that we find in our cemeteries, religious structures, banks and in our parks are the same symbols that have been part of the framework of the human psyche for thousands of years. While contemporary man may think that they are simply decorative manifestations of a by-gone era, they represent the fears, dreams, ideas, beliefs and struggles that humankind has endured since we began to walk upright. This book surveys many of these icons and will give a meaning for them both in the context of ancient history and folklore as well as a meaning that is suitable for our contemporary times. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, this book will be of interest to anyone interested in historic preservation, ancient symbolism, the Green Man and the universal application of imagery. Gary R. Varner has written numerous books on ancient traditions, folklore, the environment and contemporary issues. He is a member of the American Folklore Society and the Foundation for Mythological Studies.
Author | : Richard Connell |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2023-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8728187490 |
Sanger Rainsford is a big-game hunter, who finds himself washed up on an island owned by the eccentric General Zaroff. Zaroff, a big-game hunter himself, has heard of Rainsford’s abilities with a gun and organises a hunt. However, they’re not after animals – they’re after people. When he protests, Rainsford the hunter becomes Rainsford the hunted. Sharing similarities with "The Hunger Games", starring Jennifer Lawrence, this is the story that created the template for pitting man against man. Born in New York, Richard Connell (1893 – 1949) went on to become an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best remembered for the gripping novel "The Most Dangerous Game" and for receiving an Oscar nomination for the screenplay "Meet John Doe".