It is 1922 and Dr. Alan Twist, an authority in the occult sciences and the paranormal, has been invited by the lord of Cranston Manor in a remote corner of Cornwall to investigate a series of hauntings. His journey is interrupted by the shrill cries of a young woman. Everyone in the region believes that it is cursed by a siren, who emits Banshee calls. If they are heard by two ...(展开全部)

故事讲述了小丑（Joker）的起源，通过闪回的方式展示了他从一个失败的喜剧演员变成哥谭市最臭名昭著的犯罪狂人的过程。小丑试图证明任何人只需要经历“一天的坏事”就会变得疯狂。他绑架了警察局长詹姆斯·戈登（James Gordon），并对他的女儿芭芭拉·戈登（Barbara Gordon）进行残忍的攻击，试图让戈登精神崩溃。与此同时，蝙蝠侠（Batman）竭尽全力阻止小丑的疯狂计划。 这本书不仅探讨了小丑的心理状态，还深入挖掘了蝙蝠侠与小丑之间复杂的关系。它被广泛认为是小丑的“终极”故事之一，也是最好的蝙蝠侠故事之一。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In the aptly titled "The Call and the Response", renowned philosopher and theologian Jean-Louis Chretien revisits a favorite theme: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response, explored using art as a context. For Chretien, art is about acts in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts provoke responses from viewers. Deeply spiritual and i...(展开全部)

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and sold into service as sled dog in Alaska, he reverts to a wild state. Buck is forced to fight in order to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. Eventually he sheds the veneer of civilization, relying on primordial instincts and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.

With the incomparable opening chapter of "Call for the Dead," titled "A Brief History of George Smiley," John Le Carre introduces his legendary spy and immediately ensnares you in the shadowy world Smiley inhabits. Pulled back from overseas duty during World War II, Smiley was redirected to face the threats of the Cold War. He had been asked to interview Samuel Fennan of the Fo...(展开全部)

H.P.洛夫克拉夫特 Howard Philips Lovecraft （1890—1937） 1890年出生于普罗维登斯安格尔街194号。 3岁时父亲因精神崩溃被送进医院，五年后去世。 14岁时祖父去世，家道中落，他一度打算自杀。 18岁时深受精神崩溃的折磨，未及毕业便退学。 29岁时母亲也精神失常，两年后死于手术。 34岁时结婚，但婚后生活并不幸福。妻子的帽子商店破产，身体健康恶化。他因此陷入痛苦与孤独，五年后离婚。 一贫如洗的他回到家乡普罗维登斯，将所有精力倾注于写作。然而直到46岁被诊断出肠癌，他的60篇中短篇小说终究因为内容过于超前，未能为他带来名利回报。次年，他在疼痛与孤独的阴影中死去。 今天，洛夫克拉夫特和他笔下的克苏鲁神话，被认为是20世纪影响力最大的古典恐怖小说体系，业已成为无数恐怖电影、游戏、文学作品的根源。

法利•莫厄特（1921—2014），加拿大国宝级作家，坚定的环保主义者，一生出版著作44本，有2500多万册远销世界60多个国家。他透过极具热情和洞察力的写作启发世人，不同的选择对人类和生态会有重大影响：曾经的选择影响当下的生态系统，现在的抉择将左右人类和所有地球生命的未来。其代表作有：《与狼共度》《鲸之殇》《鹿之民》《屠海》等。其中《鲸之殇》被世界反捕鲸组织奉为经典，后改编成电影 ；而由于他对海洋保护的卓越贡献，海洋守护者协会将一艘负责监控非法捕鱼活动的海洋守护船命名为“法利•莫厄特”号。

The author recounts his dramatic struggle to save a pregnant fin whale trapped in a tidal pond on the southern coast of Newfoundland

Critically acclaimed author Alan Moore redefined graphic novel story-telling with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. In Batman: The Killing Joke, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, The Joker, and changes Batman's world forever. ONE BAD DAY. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psy...(展开全部)