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)

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田纳西•威廉斯（Tennessee Williams，1911—1983），美国二十世纪最伟大的剧作家之一，与尤金•奥尼尔、阿瑟•米勒并称为美国戏剧三大家，同时也是全世界范围内作品流传最广的美国文学大师之一——主要通过舞台剧演出，尤其是电影。他一生创作了六十余部戏剧、小说和诗歌作品，以心理深度、象征手法和南方哥特风格著称，1948年和1955年分别以《欲望号街车》和《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》两度赢得普利策奖和纽约戏剧评论奖，《玻璃动物园》和《鬣蜥之夜》也分别于1945年和1961年拿下纽约戏剧评论奖，1952年《玫瑰文身》获得托尼奖最佳戏剧奖，1979年荣获肯尼迪中心荣誉奖（终身成就奖）。 田纳西•威廉斯一生饱受抑郁症、酗酒与药物成瘾的困扰，但他将痛苦转化为创作动力，他说：“写作是我能想象的最根本的救赎之道。”他以诗意的语言、深刻的同理心与无畏的真相揭示，...(展开全部)

Collected here are ten superb tales by today's master of the seemingly impossible crime, the Frenchman Paul Halter. Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt, a tunnel that murders people, a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the snow, a victim killed by an invisible hand at the top of a guarded tower, a homicidal snowman that kills in front of witnesses... There canno...(展开全部)

田纳西•威廉斯（Tennessee Williams，1911—1983），美国二十世纪最伟大的剧作家之一，与尤金•奥尼尔、阿瑟•米勒并称为美国戏剧三大家，同时也是全世界范围内作品流传最广的美国文学大师之一——主要通过舞台剧演出，尤其是电影。他一生创作了六十余部戏剧、小说和诗歌作品，以心理深度、象征手法和南方哥特风格著称，1948年和1955年分别以《欲望号街车》和《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》两度赢得普利策奖和纽约戏剧评论奖，《玻璃动物园》和《鬣蜥之夜》也分别于1945年和1961年拿下纽约戏剧评论奖，1952年《玫瑰文身》获得托尼奖最佳戏剧奖，1979年荣获肯尼迪中心荣誉奖（终身成就奖）。 田纳西•威廉斯一生饱受抑郁症、酗酒与药物成瘾的困扰，但他将痛苦转化为创作动力，他说：“写作是我能想象的最根本的救赎之道。”他以诗意的语言、深刻的同理心与无畏的真相揭示，...(展开全部)

Collected here are ten superb tales by today's master of the seemingly impossible crime, the Frenchman Paul Halter. Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt, a tunnel that murders people, a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the snow, a victim killed by an invisible hand at the top of a guarded tower, a homicidal snowman that kills in front of witnesses... There canno...(展开全部)