It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who fo...(展开全部)

It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who fo...(展开全部)

The Mask of Sanity is a book written by Hervey Cleckley, M.D., first published in 1941, describing the clinical interviews of Cleckley with incarcerated psychopaths. It is considered a seminal work and the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the 20th century. The basic elements of psychopathy outlined by Cleckley are still relevant today.[1] The title refers...(展开全部)

When Hitler invaded Austria in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud was among the 175,000 Viennese Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Though Freud was near the end of his life-eighty-one years old, battling cancer of the jaw-and Hitler's rise on the world stage was just beginning, the fates of these two historical giants were nonetheless intertwined. In this gripping and revelatory histori...(展开全部)

The year is 1815 and Captain Hugh Austen of the Grenadier Guards is attending a ball before he leads his troops to face Napoleon at Waterloo. A young woman asks his help and the vanishes, leaving only a miniature portrait of herself. The woman is connected with a Satanic Man in Black who is rumored to practice Unhallowed Arts. Soon, Austen discovers that the mysterious woman wa...(展开全部)

The year is 1815 and Captain Hugh Austen of the Grenadier Guards is attending a ball before he leads his troops to face Napoleon at Waterloo. A young woman asks his help and the vanishes, leaving only a miniature portrait of herself. The woman is connected with a Satanic Man in Black who is rumored to practice Unhallowed Arts. Soon, Austen discovers that the mysterious woman wa...(展开全部)

"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News "Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife."--Rolling Stone "SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PAC...(展开全部)

"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News "Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife."--Rolling Stone "SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PAC...(展开全部)