Third report on Scottish Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) data linkage project tracks key patient outcomes as strategy partners attempt to optimise implementation of the 'Chain of Survival' across Scotland.
Welcome to The Seventh Ghost Story MEGAPACK®! Once more we have a wide-ranging assortment of supernatural fiction, with setting across the world -- Europe, the Americas, Asia -- and across the centuries. You will note that we have a larger than normal number of "Anonymous" stories. No, the authors weren't embarrassed by their contributions. Victorian-era literary magazines and newspapers often ran fiction without crediting the author, or with only vague terms like "A Lady," initials, or humorous pseudonyms (as with the story by “Q.E.D.” in this volume). Authors later collected their stories in books, and that's when readers discovered who had actually written what. If a story never got reprinted, its author remained a mystery. Modern scholars are still researching these anonymous stories, but many authors will never be properly identified. This time we include: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER, by R.A. Lafferty FROM THE TOMB, by Guy De Maupassant THE VENGEANCE OF A TREE, by Eleanor F. Lewis YOU CAN'T KILL A GHOST, by Frank Belknap Long A FIGHT WITH A GHOST, by Q.E.D. A CRY ACROSS THE BLACK WATER, by S. R. Crockett A FRIENDLY EXORCISE, by Talmage Powell MRS. DAVENPORT'S GHOST, by Frederick P. Schrader COUSIN KELLY, by Fletcher Flora GHOST OF BUCKSTOWN INN, by Arnold M. Anderson THE HUNGRY GHOST, by Emil Petaja GRAND-DAME'S GHOST STORY, by C.D. THE STONE CHAMBER OF TAVERNDALE MANOR HOUSE, by Lady Mabel Howard THE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL, by John Kendrick Bangs THE PARLOR-CAR GHOST, by A Lady THE THIRTEENTH BOAT, by George J. Rawlins THE RETURN OF YEN-TCHIN-KING, by Lafcadio Hearn THE SPECTRE OF TAPPINGTON, by Thomas Ingoldsby I HAD A HUNCH, AND..., by Talmage Powell THE BURGLAR'S GHOST, by Anonymous A PHANTOM TOE, by Anonymous THE PHANTOM WOMAN, by Anonymous THE GHOSTS OF RED CREEK, by S. T. THE PHANTOM HAG, by Anonymous THE SPECTRE BRIDE, by Anonymous HOW HE CAUGHT THE GHOST, by Anonymous COLONEL HALIFAX'S GHOST STORY, by Anonymous THE GHOST OF THE COUNT, by Anonymous THE OLD MANSION, by Anonymous A MISFIT GHOST, by Anonymous AN UNBIDDEN GUEST, by Anonymous THE DEAD WOMAN'S PHOTOGRAPH, by Anonymous THE GHOST OF A LIVE MAN, by Anonymous THE GHOST OF WASHINGTON, by Anonymous If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a 'cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century.' For another critic, it seemed that for Hollywood there was 'no world of today save the world of London by gaslight'. In Gaslight Melodrama, Guy Barefoot examines the films that gave rise to such comments, and the pattern of discourse that gave rise to such films. The book's main focus is provided by 1940s Hollywood melodramas such as Gaslight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Hangover Square. It also discusses a related cycle of British films that located murder and melodrama in Victorian or Edwardian settings, and then looks beyond cinema to the Gothic novels of the 18th century, 19th century discussions of gas lighting in street, home and theatre, and ambivalent 20th century responses to the Victorian era. Combining close analysis of particular film texts with attention to cinema's cultural context, Gaslight Melodrama provides an exploration of the ways in which the past has been the site of contested meaning, and an examination of the network of melodramatic narratives embedded within familiar and lesser-known examples of classical Hollywood cinema.
The Mystery Fancier, Volume Seven Number One, January-February 1983, contains: "Captain Joseph T. Shaw's Black Mask Scrapbook," by E. R. Hagemann, "Detection by Other Means," by Bob Sampson, "Joe Orton's and Tom Stoppard's Burlesques of the Detective Genre," by Earl F. Bargainnier, "Bloody Balaclava: Charlotte MacLeod's Campus Comedy Mysteries," by Jane S. Bakerman and "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part XIII," by Barry Van Tilburg.
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