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![]() ![]() Think about how the movie Pitch Black opens with the meeting of the character Riddick. Think about Riddick’s defining characteristics. Imagine the main character from those movies. ![]() I want you to close your eyes for a moment. Have you ever watched the movies Pitch Black or The Chronicles of Riddick starring Vin Diesel? Yet, on a world filled with ravenous telepathic beasts and cannibalistic natives…Krisa discovers that the gorgeous and mysterious Teague may be the most dangerous animal of all. When the ship crashes onto an uncharted jungle planet, Krisa has no choice but to trust the menacing convict with both her virginity and her life. Even so, her heart jumps at the sound of his deep, gravelly voice. In the cargo hold, she stumbles across Teague-so fierce a prisoner he’s blindfolded and chained to a wall. Resigned to her destiny, Krisa boards the starship that will take her to another planet and her loveless marriage. His tortured past has turned him into a ruthless killer-an unthinkable fate to the innocent, sheltered Krisa. He is also Feral, a proud and savage people known for their indomitable wills to survive and their fiercely possessive natures. ![]() Kurt Teague is a prisoner-a galactic criminal wanted for multiple murders. Though she secretly longs for just one adventure all on her own, she knows the reality of her life-she is destined to be the wife of the elderly and pompous Lord Radisson. Krisa Elyison is a bride-to-be-bought and paid for by a stuffy aristocrat. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is essential reading for any Dark Tower-or Stephen King-fan. ![]() In this indispensable companion, Bev Vincent presents a book-by-book analysis of each volume in the series, tracing the Dark Tower's connections to King's other novels including The Stand, Insomnia, and Hearts in Atlantis, and offering insights from the author about the creative process involved in crafting his lifelong work-a work that has consumed not only Stephen King, but his legion of devoted readers. With the full cooperation of Stephen King himself, The Road to the Dark Tower examines the epic journey of the author to complete a story that threatened to overwhelm him. ![]() Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone. Bev Vincent is the author of several non-fiction books, including The Road to the Dark Tower, The Dark Tower Companion and Stephen King: A Complete. The seven-volume series, written and published over a period of 30 years, was inspired by Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," as well as J.R.R. In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE DARK TOWER SERIES-INCLUDING BOOK-BY-BOOK ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT INTO STEPHEN KING'S CREATIVE PROCESS. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.Īlso included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling “ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero-a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! ![]() Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. ![]() |