Best-selling Taiwanese illustrator Jimmy Liao teams up with renowned British author Joyce Dunbar to present a fantastical, heartwarming tale. Why can’t Jo-Jo go to sleep? He doesn''t like the darkness under the bed — a monster might be hiding there. And one is! It's a tiny speck of a monster with a huge appetite for darkness, gobbling it up under the bed, in every nook and cr...(展开全部)

幾米第一本童书 幾米第一次与国外作者合作的作品 今期待已久幾米与英国作者乔依丝．唐巴(Joyce Dunbar)合作的第一本英文童书《吃掉黑暗的怪兽》中译版上市了！ 英文原版已于今年10月在英、美两国发行并受到出版界注目。美国着名童书评论家Leonard S. Marcus在11月9号出版的The New York Times Sunday Book Review 专栏中对此书及幾米绘画风格给予很高的评价。《吃掉黑暗的怪兽》是幾米第一次与西方作者合作并为儿童所创作的绘本作品。希望幾米迷与新朋友都会喜欢！ 这个故事描述一个小男孩在夜里睡不着。 他觉得，黑漆漆的床底下，躲了一只怪兽…… 哇，仔细一看，床底下真的有一只小怪兽耶。 这只怪兽老是觉得肚子饿，好饿好饿，饿得不得了！ 小怪兽到处找东西吃。你猜，他吃的是什么？ 他在吃「黑暗」！他到处吃呀吃，越吃，身...(展开全部)

An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman. Lucie Blackman -- tall, blonde, and 21 years old -- stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months inbetween had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japan...(展开全部)

Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed ...(展开全部)

Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

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。

The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: "Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend". Set in the Highgate-Archway area of...(展开全部)

Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin’s ideas about who should benefit from his cha...(展开全部)

道格拉斯•普雷斯顿：曾任美国国家历史博物馆编辑及撰稿人，普林斯顿大学写作课程教授，《纽约客》《自然历史》《国家地理》《哈泼斯》《史密森尼》和《大西洋月刊》特约撰稿人。他创作了多部广受好评的非虚构类作品。 马里奥•斯佩齐：意大利著名记者，曾报道意大利历史上多宗刑事要案，其中一些牵涉到恐怖主义和黑手党。他从一开始便参与调查“佛罗伦萨的恶魔案”，曾出版过多部虚构类作品和非虚构类作品。

道格拉斯•普雷斯顿：曾任美国国家历史博物馆编辑及撰稿人，普林斯顿大学写作课程教授，《纽约客》《自然历史》《国家地理》《哈泼斯》《史密森尼》和《大西洋月刊》特约撰稿人。他创作了多部广受好评的非虚构类作品。 马里奥•斯佩齐：意大利著名记者，曾报道意大利历史上多宗刑事要案，其中一些牵涉到恐怖主义和黑手党。他从一开始便参与调查“佛罗伦萨的恶魔案”，曾出版过多部虚构类作品和非虚构类作品。