Henry James
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young charges as the children become possessed by ghostly spells;...
203) What Maisie Knew
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Maisie, a captivating little girl struggling for grace in the midst of her parents' bitter custody battle. Told through her eyes, Maisie navigates this ever-widening turmoil with a six-year-old's innocence, charm and generosity of spirit.
204) Washington Square
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Catherine is a lonely young woman in search of happiness, until she is swept off her feet by the handsome Morris Townsend. Suspicious of the young man's true intentions, however, her controlling father threatens to disown Catherine if she follows her heart and marries against his wishes.
205) Affairs of the heart: Series one :classic tales of love and loss based on the fiction of Henry James
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 351 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Romantic tales from the late Victorian high society of love and loss. These unfold from the country houses of England to the drawing rooms of New York, from the palazzos of Venice to the art studios of London. Scoundrels and schemers collide with ingénues and admirers in the terribly intricate affairs of the heart.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (484 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an au pair's tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor in 1980s England with the estate's chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling gothic romance. At Bly Manor, dead doesn't mean gone.
207) The heiress
Series
Language
English
Description
"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
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Series
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Classic haunted house ghost stories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre expert John Landis. This beautifully presented, highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled, terrified and inspired readers decade after decade. Some are relatively well known; others are long-lost treasures, awaiting rediscovery. The selection includes tales of terror by Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, and Percival Landon; studies of...
209) The innocents
Series
Criterion collection volume 727
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top).
210) The Isle of Blood
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Series
Monstrumologist volume 3
Physical Desc
538 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting for the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" in 1888, twelve-year-old orphan Will Henry follows him to Socotra, plunging into depths of horror worse than anything he has experienced so far.
Author
Series
Monstrumologist volume 2
Physical Desc
xix, 424 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh.
Author
Language
English
Description
An ingenious concept conceived by William Dean Howells, Whole Family is a novel written by twelve different writers, including Henry James, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Henry Van Dyke. Each writer tackles a different family member, with Howells's portrait of the family patriarch, who has doubts about his daughter's engagement, setting the story in motion.
213) The final descent
Author
Series
Monstrumologist volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dr. Warthrop begins to doubt fourteen-year-old Will Henry's loyalty, he sets him against one of the most horrific creatures in the Monstrumarium unaware that Will's life and his own fate will lie in the balance.
Author
Series
Brainbuster 2019 volume 1
Language
English
Description
SLIME has dominated Terror Alliance Pro Wrestling for almost 20 years. Their reign of destruction goes unchallenged, but a new challenger may answer the call. But it will take more than a fighting spirit to become the Interzone Ultimo Elite Worlds Heavyweight Championship belt.
Author
Series
Brainbuster 2019 volume 2
Language
English
Description
King Ringmaster is in for the fight of his life, and if SLIME has anything to do with it, it may be his last!
Author
Language
English
Description
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of this book — on the one hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe, on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
Contents:
Great Britain and Ireland:
London
Cathedrals and Abbeys
Castles...
Author
Language
English
Description
Content:
Edgar Allan Poe:
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Black Cat...
Henry James:
The Turn of the Screw
The Ghostly Rental...
H. P. Lovecraft:
The Dunwich Horror
The Shunned House...
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein
The Mortal Immortal
The Evil Eye...
John William Polidori:
The Vampyre
Bram Stoker:
Dracula
The Jewel of Seven Stars
The Lair of the White Worm...
Algernon Blackwood:
The Willows
A Haunted Island
A Case of Eavesdropping
Ancient...
Author
Language
English
Description
Musaicum Books presents to you a collection of the greatest horror, supernatural and gothic tales of all time:
Washington Irving:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Théophile Gautier:
Clarimonde
The Mummy's Foot
Richard Marsh:
The Beetle
H. P. Lovecraft:
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
At The Mountains of Madness
The Colour out of Space
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Dunwich Horror
The Shunned House...
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein
The Mortal Immortal
The Evil...