"Journey into Fear (novel) Journey into Fear is a 1940 spy thriller novel by Eric Ambler. Film adaptations were released in 1943 and 1975. The first part of the novel focuses on Colonel Haki, the dour but basically likable head of Turkish Security, who already made his first appearance in ""The Mask of Dimitrios"" and returns in later Ambler stories as a general. The protagonist is a British engineer traveling back from Turkey, where he had completed high-level technical talks which could help cement a Turkish-British alliance in the recently started Second World War. German spies seek to assassinate him."
"Adventure into Fear Adventure into Fear is an American horror comic book series published by Marvel Comics from cover dates November 1970 through December 1975, for 31 issues. This is its trademarked cover title for all but its first nine issues, though the series is copyrighted in its postal indicia as simply Fear. The first nine issues, cover-titled ""Fear"", reprinted science fiction/fantasy and monster stories from the late-1950s and early 1960s ""pre-superhero Marvel"" comics, primarily ""Journey into Mystery"", ""Strange Tales"", ""Tales to Astonish"", and ""Tales of Suspense"". Most were written by Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee and/or Larry Lieber, and generally"
"The Midnight Tour The Midnight Tour is a 1998 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon, originally released by Feature Publishing. It is the third chapter in the author's ""Beast House Chronicles"" series, preceded by ""The Cellar"" in 1980 and ""The Beast House"" in 1986, and followed in 2001 by the posthumously published novella ""Friday Night in Beast House"". Seventeen years after the events of"" The Beast House"", the town of Malcasa point has become a popular tourist destination. The Beast House tours have been updated to include a family-friendly tour during the day and an adult-oriented tour late at"
"Association for the Turkish-Greek Friendship (""Daphne/Defne""). She died in Athens at the age of 95 years because of pneumonia. The ""Dido Sotiriou Cultural Prize"", issued by the Hellenic Authors' Society, is named after her. Dido Sotiriou is a realistic writer who uses self biographical elements participating emotionally to the adventures of her protagonists. Her novels deal with the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the civil war period and the post-war period in Greece. Dido Sotiriou Dido Sotiriou (née Pappa; alternative spelling: Dido Sotiriu; Greek: Διδώ Σωτηρίου, Turkish: ""Dido Sotiroğlu""; 18 February 1909 – 23 September 2004) was a Greek novelist, journalist, and"
"Pilgrimage to Hell Pilgrimage to Hell is the first book in the Deathlands Saga of novels. Written by Christopher Lowder under his pen name Jack Adrian and published on May 1, 1986, it follows the adventures of Ryan Cawdor, Krysty Wroth and J.B. Dix, and delves into how they met. A major character of the saga who appears in this novel is the Trader, who apparently goes off to die alone near the end of the book, but is constantly referenced in future novels. It also brings Doc Tanner (a senile-sounding gentleman with knowledge of pre-war America) to the group,"
"Dance Publications printed two limited edition hardcover versions of ""The Midnight Tour"" under . It featured new art by Alan M. Clark, and it featured signatures from Richard Laymon, and Alan M. Clark. The two editions were: The Midnight Tour The Midnight Tour is a 1998 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon, originally released by Feature Publishing. It is the third chapter in the author's ""Beast House Chronicles"" series, preceded by ""The Cellar"" in 1980 and ""The Beast House"" in 1986, and followed in 2001 by the posthumously published novella ""Friday Night in Beast House"". Seventeen years after the"
"The Mythology of Cyprus"" the late George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, a frequent traveller to Cyprus commented: ""Greek mythology provides an eternal fascination... Stass Paraskos, one of Cyprus' most distinguished artists provides in this book an exciting recital of the influence Greek mythology has brought to bear on Greek Cypriot development."" Paraskos's ""The Mythology of Cyprus"" was published in Greek and Turkish translations in 2018. Paraskos died on 4 March 2014 in Paphos, Cyprus of septicaemia caused by diabetes-related gangrene in his legs. He was 81 years old. A street in the village of Lempa, the current location of the"
"by the crumbling Surami fortress that requires a living person to be buried within its walls to stand firm. The novel was filmed by the eminent Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov who directed his multi-award-winning ""The Legend of Suram Fortress"" in the 1980s. Chonkadze died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty, and many of his writings were destroyed by his relatives as a potential source of infection. Daniel Chonkadze Daniel Chonkadze () (1830 – June 16, 1860) was a Georgian novelist primarily known for his resonant novella ""Suramis tsikhe"" (""Surami Fortress""). Chonkadze was born to a peasant family near Dusheti."
"Journey into Mystery Journey into Mystery is an American comic book series initially published by Atlas Comics, then by its successor, Marvel Comics. Initially a horror comics anthology, it changed to giant-monster and science fiction stories in the late 1950s. Beginning with issue #83 (cover dated Aug. 1962), it ran the superhero feature ""The Mighty Thor"", created by writers Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and artist Jack Kirby, and inspired by the mythological Norse thunder god. The series, which was renamed for its superhero star with issue #126 (March 1966), has been revived three times: in the 1970s as a"
"by Kathryn Immonen and drawn by Valerio Schiti, the series began starring the Marvel Asgardians, with the Lady Sif as its lead character. The series was cancelled with issue #655 (Oct. 2013). Journey into Mystery Journey into Mystery is an American comic book series initially published by Atlas Comics, then by its successor, Marvel Comics. Initially a horror comics anthology, it changed to giant-monster and science fiction stories in the late 1950s. Beginning with issue #83 (cover dated Aug. 1962), it ran the superhero feature ""The Mighty Thor"", created by writers Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and artist Jack Kirby,"
"Are You Afraid of the Dark? (novel) Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a 2004 novel and the last novel by bestselling thriller writer Sidney Sheldon. In four cities across the world, four people die violently and mysteriously. The dead share a single crucial link: each was connected to an all-powerful environmental think tank. Two of the victims' widows—accomplished painter Diane Stevens and international supermodel Kelly Harris—may hold the key to their husbands' demise. Terrified for their lives, suspicious of each other, and armed only with their own wits and guile, they must join forces in a nightmare cycle"
"The Terror (novel) The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons. It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of HMS ""Erebus"" and HMS ""Terror"" to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to locate the Northwest Passage. In the novel, while Franklin and his crew are plagued by starvation and illness, and forced to contend with mutiny and cannibalism, they are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by a monster. Most of the characters featured in ""The Terror"" are actual members of Franklin's crew, whose unexplained disappearance has warranted a great deal of speculation. The"
"Dimitris Lyacos Dimitris Lyacos (; born October 19, 1966) is a contemporary Greek poet and playwright. He is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy. Renowned for its genre-defying form and the avant-garde combination of themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology, Lyacos’s work reexamines grand narratives in the context of some of the enduring motifs of the Western Canon. Despite its length - the overall trilogy counts no more than two hundred pages - Poena Damni took over a period of thirty years to complete, with the individual books revised and republished in different"
"See Delphi and Die See Delphi and Die is a 2005 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the 17th book of the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series. Set in Rome and Roman Greece between September and October AD 76, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, informer and imperial agent. As with many of the other Falco novels, ""See Delphi and Die"" uses a ""modern"" idea – in this case, the holiday package tour – as a device around which to build the story. The title refers to the deaths which take place at tourist attractions in Ancient Greece,"
"Nikos Kazantzakis Nikos Kazantzakis ( ; 18 February 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years. Kazantzakis' novels included ""Zorba the Greek"" (published 1946 as ""Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas""), ""Christ Recrucified"" (1948), ""Captain Michalis"" (1950, translated Freedom and Death), and ""The Last Temptation of Christ"" (1955). He also wrote plays, travel books, memoirs and philosophical essays such as ""The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises"". His fame spread in the English-speaking world due to cinematic adaptations of ""Zorba the"
"horror anthology, and in the 1990s and 2010s with characters from Marvel's Thor mythos. The first ""Journey into Mystery"" series was initially a horror-fantasy anthology published by Marvel Comics' 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics, with a first issue cover-dated June 1952. Artist Joe Kubert, who would later become one of the main war comics artists for DC Comics, drew the story ""The Hog"" in ""Journey into Mystery"" #21 (January 1955). Issue #23 was the first to be approved by the Comics Code Authority, which led to restrictions on horror comics. The title was caught in the collapse of Atlas' distributor, and"
"Dwight Kemper Dwight Kemper (born March 5, 1958) is the author of three mystery novels, ""Who Framed Boris Karloff?"", ""Bela Lugosi and the House of Doom"", and ""The Vampire's Tomb Mystery"". The first two are published by Midnight Marquee Press, the third by Helm Publishing. All three books deal with real actors making real films and being involved in fictional mysteries and were each nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Book of the Year. An accomplished character actor with over 25 years stage experience including an engagement at Carnegie Hall in New York City as Sergei Diaghilev"
"Midnight's Lair Midnight's Lair is a 1988 horror novel by American writer Richard Laymon, originally written under the pseudonym Richard Kelly. It was first published in Great Britain and was not released in the United States until 1993, where it was distributed by St. Martin's Press. The novel concerns a group of tourists who become trapped in an underground cavern after a fire destroys the exits. Darcy, one of the tour guides, and the group try to escape by breaking into a part of the cave that had been walled up years before. Among the tourists is Kyle Mordock, son"
"team. Midnight's Lair Midnight's Lair is a 1988 horror novel by American writer Richard Laymon, originally written under the pseudonym Richard Kelly. It was first published in Great Britain and was not released in the United States until 1993, where it was distributed by St. Martin's Press. The novel concerns a group of tourists who become trapped in an underground cavern after a fire destroys the exits. Darcy, one of the tour guides, and the group try to escape by breaking into a part of the cave that had been walled up years before. Among the tourists is Kyle Mordock,"
"Voyage in the Dark Voyage in the Dark was written in 1934 by Jean Rhys. It tells of the semi-tragic descent of its young protagonist Anna Morgan, who is moved from her Caribbean home to England by an uncaring stepmother, after the death of her father. Once she leaves school, and she is cut off financially by the stepmother, Hester, Anna tries to support herself as a chorus girl, then becomes involved with an older man named Walter who supports her financially. When he leaves her, she begins a downward spiral. Like William Faulkner's ""The Wild Palms"", the novel features"
"The First Death Dimitris Lyacos's The First Death is the latest installment of the ""Poena Damni"" trilogy. The book tells the story of a marooned man on a desert island in a sequence of fourteen poem-sections, recounting his relentless struggle for survival as well as his physical and mental disintegration. The work alludes simultaneously to a modern Philoctetes, an inverted version of Crusoe as well as the myth of dismemberment of Dionysus. The dense and nightmarish imagery of the poem, replete with sensations of hallucination, delirium, synesthesia and putrefaction have drawn comparisons to Lautreamont, Trakl and Beckett. Despite being first"
"""Journey into Mystery"" ran 19 issues (October 1972 - October 1975). The title was one of four launched by Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas to form a line of science fiction and horror anthologies with more thematic cohesiveness than the company's earlier attempts that decade, which had included the series ""Chamber of Darkness"" and ""Tower of Shadows"". Whereas those titles generally presented original stories, these new books would instead adapt genre classics and other stories. With the four titles' debuts set to be staggered over the course of four months, Marvel premiered ""Journey into Mystery"" vol. 2 (October 1972), ""Chamber"
"Thanasis Triaridis Thanasis Triaridis (Thessaloniki December 21, 1970 -) is a Greek author dealing with various literary genres such as short story, novel, drama, poetry and fiction. At the same time, he writes aesthetic essays on Western civilization and political articles. Since 2009 participates in publishing ""digma"". His narratives have been translated into English, French and Italian, while all texts are available from his website . His first novel, ""Deathwind Breathing on Cupela"", 2000, was welcomed by the critics as one of the most important Greek works that combine aestheticism with magic realism. His novel Lemonmellons was considered blasphemous and"
"as executive producers. The Terror (novel) The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons. It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of HMS ""Erebus"" and HMS ""Terror"" to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to locate the Northwest Passage. In the novel, while Franklin and his crew are plagued by starvation and illness, and forced to contend with mutiny and cannibalism, they are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by a monster. Most of the characters featured in ""The Terror"" are actual members of Franklin's crew, whose unexplained disappearance has warranted a great deal"
"Death of a Ghost Death of a Ghost is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in February 1934, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It is the sixth novel with the mysterious Albert Campion, aided by his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. At the former home of John Lafcadio, the great painter dead some 18 years, the annual ceremony to unveil a painting he left behind to keep his memory alive is interrupted by a murder. Suspicion falls on a family member, but with no proof the police"
"Dimitrios Trichopoulos Dimitrios Trichopoulos (; December 9, 1938 – December 1, 2014), was a Mediterranean Diet expert and tobacco harms researcher. He was Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, and a past chair of the Department of Epidemiology, in the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Dimitrios Trichopoulos conducted research and taught for more than four decades in the field of cancer epidemiology and prevention. He published more than 1,000 scientific papers, continually charting scientific frontiers, from seminal research linking secondhand smoke (SHS) from cigarettes with increased susceptibility to risk for lung cancer, and"
"married in prison and he died on 16 August 2010 at the age of 87 from respiratory problems, having been taken to hospital the previous night. Thus he spent 35 years in prison (1975-2010) and he never asked for a pardon. Dimitrios Ioannidis Dimitrios Ioannidis ( ; 13 March 1923 – 16 August 2010), also known as Dimitris Ioannidis, was a Greek military officer and one of the leading figures in the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. Ioannidis was born in Athens to a wealthy, upper middle-class business family with roots in Epirus. During the Axis occupation of Greece he"
"Dorothy Richardson Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 – 17 June 1957) was a British author and journalist. Author of ""Pilgrimage"", a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson saw them as chapters of one work—she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. Richardson also emphasizes in ""Pilgrimage"" the importance and distinct nature of female experiences. The title ""Pilgrimage"" alludes not only to ""the journey of the artist ... to self-realization but, more practically, to the discovery of a unique creative form and expression"". Richardson was born"
"Who Fears Death Who Fears Death is a science fantasy novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, published in 2010 by DAW, an imprint of Penguin Books. It was awarded the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Carl Brandon Kindred Award ""for an outstanding work of speculative fiction dealing with race and ethnicity."" Okorafor wrote a prequel, the novel ""The Book of Phoenix"", published by DAW in 2015. In July 2017, Okorafor announced the novel was the basis for an HBO television series in ""early development"", with George R. R. Martin serving as an executive"
"Deep in the Darkness Deep in the Darkness is the name of a 2004 novel by American writer Michael Laimo and a film adaptation by the same name. The novel was nominated for a 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Novel. While writing the book Laimo was influenced by the 1973 made-for-television film ""Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"". Laimo wrote a sequel to ""Deep in the Darkness"" entitled ""Return to Darkness"", which he released in 2011. After the death of her doctor husband Neil, Mrs. Ferris sells her home and the Ashborough medical practice to Dr. Michael Cayle. At his"
"Dimitris Varos Dimitris Varos (; 1949 – 7 September 2017, Athens) was a Greek poet, journalist, and photographer. He has been director and editor-in-chief of many Greek national newspapers, including Chiakos Laos, Acropolis, Ethnos, Proti, Ethnos tis Kyriakis, Typos tis Kyriakis and many national magazines. He is currently the director of print and electronic publications at ""Technoekdotiki"" that publishes 7 monthly magazines. Dimitris Varos he is also the creator of a number of printing media in Greece such as ""Ethnos tis Kyriakis"", ""TV Ethnos"", ""Time Out"", ""Ergasia"", ""New Gen"", ""IQ"", ""Pame Athina"", ""Relax"", ""Helliniki Naftiliaki"", ""Kefaleo"",""Car & Truck"", ""Logistics &"
"campaign. From 1978 he became involved with the UK Greek education and researched extensively Cyprus' modern history. He is the author of many books amongst which the award winning book ""Ayios Theodoros Karpasias, Place and People"" (1986), the four-volume work ""Georgios Grivas Digenis - Biography"" (1995, 1997, 2008, 2008) and the books ""Makrasyka, Place and People"" (2010), ""With Fire and Force"" (2013) and ""The Last Escapee"" (2014). Many of his articles were published in newspapers, magazines and periodicals in Cyprus, Greece and the United Kingdom. Leonidas Ph. Leonidou Leonidas Philippou Leonidou (born October 13, 1947) is a Cypriot author and"
"Death in Disguise Death in Disguise is a crime novel by Caroline Graham, the third in her popular Chief Inspector Barnaby series, which has been adapted into the successful ITV drama ""Midsomer Murders"". In a country manor house currently owned by a New Age cult of mystics, the mysterious death of member William Carter stirs all the local gossips into a frenzy of speculation. However, the rumours of sinister events are confirmed when the so-called Master of the Lodge dies after somebody throws a knife his way during a psychic regression. Meanwhile, untrustworthy financier Guy Gamelin tries reconciling with his"