Showing results for "Lunatic" in All Categories

Every psychopath in the Mulvaney family has a role to play. Archer Mulvaney is the gambler, a drunken reprobate making his living as a high-stakes poker player. Very few people know the real Archer, not even his brothers. But there is one man who knows far too much. Mackenzie Shepherd spends his days photographing endangered wildlife. He’s also the brother of a sociopath and son to the woman who literally wrote the book on raising one. When his mother asks him to head a secret government project, it seems like the perfect excuse to run away from his life.

I deal with highs and lows, but somehow, I end up making the best of it. My family disowned me, but family is the reason why I’m in Vegas. Even with my inability to think straight, I end up being in charge of a bunch of runaway mental patients. Hence, The Asylum. A sanctuary for lost causes. Where crazy can roam free, and compulsions can be let loose. My nephew says as long as it stays at The Asylum, we won’t have problems. What fun would it be if problems didn’t exist? And my problem is in the shape of a dancer, twirling on the front lawn in the middle of the night.

You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires. It shortens your life expectancy. And you don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My name is Anita Blake. My business brings me up close and personal with all shapes and sizes of monsters. And not all of them want to kill me.

Philip Horkman is a happy man - the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for kids' soccer. Jeffrey Peckerman is the sole sane person in a world filled with goddamned jerks and morons, and he's having a really bad day. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, terrorists, subversives, bears, and a man dressed as Chuck E. Cheese.

Wernher von Braun, reluctant Nazi, personal friend of President Lyndon Johnson, and master builder of the Saturn V rocket, is on the verge of seeing his lifelong dream fulfilled as he joins to the crew of Apollo XX on mankind’s last visit to the Moon. All his life has been a struggle to get to this moment: surviving Allied bombing, uncomfortable accommodations with the SS, anti-German sentiment in post-war America, and the march of time itself—is he finally just too old to join the astronaut corps?

Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery - and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.

In the centre of the freezing Lake Beluarum stands an inescapable asylum, enclosed by the sheer cliffs of Drop Rock island. When Ambrose Grammaticus, famous inventor and master engineer, viciously attacks his own son, Rex, he is hauled to the island and imprisoned.

Join the wonderfully weird Other hand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Other hand. Solstice and Cudweed are appalled to find their father has appointed a new school master. But things get even worse when the grumpy, viciously mean teacher actually arrives. The Other hand children are sure there's something more to him than meets the eye - the trouble is, who will believe them? No one it seems. Except, perhaps, Edgar.

Brian Bedford's hugely successful one-man show is both an actor's celebration of Shakespeare and an act of Shakespearean scholarship. Bedford explores the emotion and psychology behind Shakespeare the man as well as Shakespeare the playwright.

Author Seven N Blue is the winner of the Paris Book Festival award. Another blackout night. Myla drank too much again. Panic sets in as scattered memories from the evening surface. The Persian guy, the Junkie girl. Instantly, she knows something is wrong. What had she done last night?

遠野比呂は、単身、出向いた東京の地下街で、作家、拝崎薫と出会う。

鎌倉を去る前に、一人、江ノ電ににのって"長谷"まで出かけたわたしは、通りで景月院(拝崎夫人の墓のある寺)で見習いとして働いている娘と出会います。

わたし(比呂)の話は続きます。従叔母さんの牧子様から、借用書がすべて偽物であったこと、英田恵里衣の入れ知恵で行ったと告白されたわたしは、英田氏の事務所に出向きます。

先生とこれ以上、関係が深まることを恐れたわたし(比呂)は、話の続きをノートに書いて、先生に渡すこととします。

比呂は自ら提案して、京都のお屋敷で見聞したことを、拝崎氏に語って聞かせることを日課とする。

わたし(比呂)は、筝の師匠、倉田慶介との仲を引き裂いたと誤解され、斐名子より解雇を申し渡される。

わたし(比呂)の話は続く。長女の斐名子が、蓼科に出かけている折りに、喜多川家の前のお手伝いのマリーさんがたずねてきたこと。その日、妹の珠江、マリーさんと三人で花火大会に出かけたこと。

わたし(比呂)の話は続きます。

鎌倉は七里ガ浜に散歩に出かけた帰り、海岸づたいの富士山の見える遊歩道の木陰のベンチに休みながら、その日もわたし(比呂)は、喜多川家で見聞した話を先生に語った。

The Lunatic Fringe Book is a collection of all 10 years of monthly articles written for Blue Skies magazine by Dean Ricci, a.k.a. The F***in' Pilot. Blue Skies magazine was the rebel publication. It was the new start-up that went out of its way to try to challenge people, entertain them, piss them off, make them think, keep them safer, and more than anything, embrace the amazing lifestyle that skydiving can offer to those who join its ranks. It talked about events and subjects that were borderline taboo not in the sport and the industry and in the culture.