Walking Shadows focuses on the American fantastic and the American grotesque, attempting in this manner for the first time to establish an overview of and a theoretical approach to two literary modes that have often been regarded as essential to an understanding of the American cultural canon. The central importance of these two literary forms has been pointed out earlier by important theorists such as Stanley Cavell, David Reynolds, and William Van O’Connor. A number of literary works, from the beginning of the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth centuries, are taken up in order to illustrate the inherent links or family resemblances between the two modes, with special reference to the way in which a Bakhtinian reading may facilitate our appreciation of their status within the canon. These excursions into the House of Fantastic and Grotesque Fiction may be of interest not only to hardcore aficionados, but also to philosophically minded readers in general, in particular perhaps to those who have paid acute attention to debates on late twentieth and early twenty-first century post-structuralism and deconstruction (where the classic positions of Foucault, Derrida, et al. still appear to be relevant).

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others" by Alfred Noyes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Ashlyn has found a new home in Blackstone, but when a flood of mysterious grave robberies hits the town, the local sorcerers are convinced it signals a new sign of demonic activity. As a rogue sorceress with no idea where her magic came from, Ash is a prime target for suspicion. The trouble is, what Ash does know might just get her killed. When Leo's guardian is murdered in suspicious circumstances, all signs point to a connection with the recent grave robberies. Ash determines to help him find out the truth, but it isn't long before events are spiralling out of control. The dead are rising from their graves, and the barriers around Blackstone are threatened by a demon which looks exactly like Ash herself. With the magic police on her tail, it's up to Ash to stop the demon before her own dark magic condemns her to death for crimes she never committed. Keywords: free fantasy, free paranormal books, free supernatural books, complete series, new adult fantasy, British fantasy, coming of age, demons, paranormal thriller, supernatural suspense, contemporary fantasy, young adult fantasy, paranormal fantasy, dark fantasy

'Will captivate both longtime and soon-to-be-devoted Spenser lovers' Kirkus Reviews A local theatre director claims he is being followed. An actor is gunned down onstage. There's more behind the scenes than an overzealous critic - and private detective Spenser intends to find out exactly what that is... 'If you're already a Spenser fan, you'll like this one. If you've never read Robert B. Parker, welcome aboard. After Walking Shadow you'll have a lot of books to catch up on' New York Times Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer . . . Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself' Boston Globe

Paul Heisenberg is mysteriously endowed with the ability to jump through time. Together with thousands of eventual followers, he begins a journey that eventually takes him a billion years into the future. The Earth has been devastated by war with an alien race, and the changes that have resulted from the degradation of the world's biosphere force him--and others--to rethink their own humanity. His pilgrim's progress through the coming time is beset by doubts, distractions, and temptations as various voices attempt to distract him from his determination to follow the process through to its end. He eventually witnesses the complete transformation of the Earth, and the evolution of a single omnipotent but mindless Gaean organism. Is intelligence itself just a brief candle, forever doomed to burn out? Or can Paul find some other alternative for his race.

Life is but a walking shadow for beautiful and aspiring young actress, Mikie Davenport, as she starts life anew after a mysterious fever, murder, and cancer rob her of the family she loved. As Mikie Davenport embarks upon her quest to study theater at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, she finds a new home and a new family in an old Victorian house shared by four other tenants, kindred spirits, each unique in their own special way with their own dreams and aspirations, and their own tragedies. Kelly O’ Connor, a Juilliard trained jazz pianist who is the front woman in a popular local fusion band known as Mantra, Sean O’ Connor, a successful artist driven into self-exile within the confines of his basement apartment by a series of bizarre accidental deaths involving a drunk driver, a stray bullet from a British soldier’s rifle, and a grand piano, Ben Emerson, once a financial wizard on Wall Street now a Buddhist, a bartender and a judo instructor, and Andie Aames, a vivacious, charismatic streetwise kid from NYC, all share something in common, the pursuit of happiness. But when a brutal hate crime perpetuated by Billy “Bad” Wilson, a vicious, sadistic young bigot, casts a shadow of violence and hatred over their lives, they are put to the ultimate test forcing each one of them to reevaluate and walk their own path through life and death.

Sasha and Leo are back in A Walking Shadow: A Sasha and Leo Novella! Sasha McCandless-Connelly has it all—a thriving law practice, a tight-knit family, and a reputation as a formidable litigator. But beneath the surface, she's burning out fast. As she grapples with her crushing fatigue, a routine case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn. Meanwhile, Leo's facing a professional crisis of his own, leaving him and his family exposed to a threat from an unknown source. As the couple navigates these changes, they find themselves tested by a mystery that changes everything they thought they knew.

This qualitative journey explores how literature informs and challenges my under¬standing of teaching and learning. Insights, questions, and conflicts are revealed through a series of essays in which my evolving teacher identity is illuminated through literature and imagination. Hopefully reading this portrayal of literature, which has been a source of educational insight and imagination for me, will be of use to other educators as they reflect on their own teaching. The primary works of literature used to facilitate this journey are: The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Les Miserables (1862), and American Idiot (2004); Light in August (1932), Seinfeld scripts (1991-98), and Frankenstein (1818); and The Odyssey, Night (1960), and The Souls of Black Folk (1903). By delving beneath my exterior ‘teacher mask,’ a collage of images, anecdotes, reflections, aspirations, and fears is exposed. As a resource for pre-service teachers or a reflective exercise for veteran teachers, this study aims to benefit educators by providing a new pathway through which to better understand their intrinsic identities as teachers. Each chapter concludes with “Recommendations for Reflection” that readers are encouraged to consider individu¬ally and/or collectively. The spirit of daydreams allows me to integrate literature, autobiography, and imagi¬nation through inventive and inspired discourses with literary figures, using au¬thentic quotations as content for original commentaries that further examine the intrinsic nature of teacher identity. My hope is that this journey will inspire other educators to further reflect on realities and possibilities of what it means to be a teacher.

The poetry of the First World War has come to dominate our understanding of its literature, while genres such as the short story, which are just as vital to the literary heritage of the era, have largely been neglected. In this study, Ann-Marie Einhaus challenges deeply embedded cultural conceptions about the literature of the First World War using a corpus of several hundred short stories that, until now, have not undergone any systematic critical analysis. From early wartime stories to late twentieth-century narratives - and spanning a wide spectrum of literary styles and movements - Einhaus's work reveals a range of responses to the war through fiction, from pacifism to militarism. Going beyond the household names of Owen, Sassoon and Graves, Einhaus offers scholars and students unprecedented access to new frontiers in twentieth-century literary studies.