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Watchers (angels)
Watcher or Watchers may refer to: In print Books * ''Watcher'', a 1997 ''World of Darkness'' novel by Charles L. Grant * ''Watcher'', a 2012 novel by L.A. Weatherly * Watchers (novel), ''Watchers'' (novel), a 1987 novel by Dean Koontz * ''Watchers'', a 1998-99 series of novels by Peter Lerangis * ''Watchers'', a 2013 novel by Philip Caveney * ''The Watcher and Other Weird Stories'', an 1894 short story collection by Sheridan Le Fanu ** "The Watcher", an 1847 short story by Le Fanu * ''The Watcher'', a 1936 novel by Gerald Verner * ''The Watcher'', a 1959 novel by Dolores Hitchens * ''The Watcher and Other Stories'', a 1971 short story collection by Italo Calvino * ''The Watcher'', a 1978 Frank Hastings novel by Collin Wilcox (writer), Collin Wilcox * ''The Watcher'', a 1981 novel by Kay Nolte Smith * ''The Watcher'', a 1982 novel by J. Robert Janes * ''The Watcher'', a 1986 speculative fiction novel by Jane Palmer * ''The Watcher'', a 1994 novel in the ''Point Horror'' series by L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Of Darkness
''World of Darkness'' is a series of tabletop role-playing games, originally created by Mark Rein-Hagen for White Wolf Publishing. It began as an annual line of five games in 1991–1995, with ''Vampire: The Masquerade'', ''Werewolf: The Apocalypse'', ''Mage: The Ascension'', ''Wraith: The Oblivion'', and ''Changeling: The Dreaming'', along with off-shoots based on these. The series ended in 2004, and the Reboot (fiction), reboot ''Chronicles of Darkness'' was launched the same year with a new line of games. In 2011, the original series was brought back, and the two have since been published concurrently. The games in the series have a Fictional universe, shared setting, also named the World of Darkness, which is a dark, Urban Gothic, gothic-Cyberpunk derivatives, punk interpretation of the real world, where supernatural beings such as vampires and werewolves exist in secrecy. The original series' setting has a large focus on lore and overarching narrative, whereas ''Chronicles o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Buffie
Margaret Buffie is a Canadian young adult fiction writer. Buffie was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended Sparling Elementary School, Sargeant Park Junior High, and Daniel McIntyre High School. Buffie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba. She worked as a visual artist before beginning a writing career in 1985. Her first manuscript, a novel entitled ''Who is Frances Rain?'' (1987), was published by Kids Can Press in Toronto. This story about a girl who has antique glasses which allow her to see ghosts is considered a "Canadian classic." Her latest novel, ''Winter Shadows'', was published on October 12, 2010, by Tundra Books, a division of Penguin Random House. Buffie is a recipient of the Vicky Metcalf Award Body of Work Award (For Writing Inspirational to Canadian Youth). She is also a recipient of the Young Adult Canadian Book Award; is a two-time winner of the McNally Robinson Book for Young People award and shortlisted for the Governor Generals Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Spring
Neil Spring is a Welsh novelist of supernatural horror, known for his bestselling books, ''The Ghost Hunters'' (2013) and ''The Lost Village'' (2017). Education Spring holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Somerville College, Oxford University, where he wrote a thesis on the significance of paranormal events. Works ''The Ghost Hunters'' Spring's debut work was published by Quercus in 2013. The novel is based on the life of the controversial British ghost hunter Harry Price, a psychic investigator from the inter-war years, who made Borley Rectory in Essex briefly famous as "the most haunted house in England". Spring says the book took three years to research and write. ''The Ghost Hunters'' received positive reviews from critics. '' The Sunday Times Culture Magazine'' described it as "serpentine and surprising in its plotting." '' The Metro'' described the novel as "a substantial fictional sweetmeat with a kernel of truth." ITV1 commissioned a 2-hour fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Steele
Jon Steele is an American expat author living in Europe. Biography Jon Steele was born in Spokane, Washington, in 1950. His father, a flight engineer in the United States Air Force, was frequently transferred to military bases around the western United States and Steele lived in five states by the time he was ten years old. In Montana, he graduated from Great Falls Central Catholic High School in 1968. He attended College of Great Falls for one year before dropping out. He moved to New York and worked as a janitor, waiter, liquor store clerk and postman. While in New York, Steele became an avid listener of WNEW-FM's Alison Steele (no relation), Scott Muni and Jonathan Schwartz. Inspired by the Album Oriented Rock format at its creative peak, Steele quit the Post Office in 1972 after obtaining his FCC 3rd Class Radio Operator's License. He changed his name to Jon Steele in 1974 when he became an on-air presenter for KADE-AM and KBCO-FM (both in Boulder, Colorado). Steele h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rise Of America's Surveillance State
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caiseal Mór
The Gaelic name Caiseal may refer to: *Ringfort Ringforts or ring forts are small circular fortification, fortified settlements built during the Bronze Age, Iron Age and early Middle Ages up to about the year 1000 AD. They are found in Northern Europe, especially in Ireland. There are ..., a circular defensive fort. * Cashel (other), various places, mainly in Ireland * Caiseal Mor, an Australian fantasy author {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Cresswell
Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934 – 26 September 2005) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction. Her most popular book series, ''Lizzie Dripping'' and ''The Bagthorpe Saga'', were also the basis for television series. Cresswell's TV work included film adaptation, adaptation of her own books for television movies and series: ''Lizzie Dripping'' (two series, 1973–75), ''Jumbo Spencer'' (1976), ''The Secret World of Polly Flint'' (1987), and ''Moondial (TV serial) , Moondial'' (1988). Works by others that she adapted for TV include ''The Haunted School'', ''Five Children and It'' (1991, from Five Children and It , the 1902 novel), ''The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997 serial) , The Phoenix and the Carpet'' (1997), ''The Famous Five (1995 TV series), The Famous Five'' (1995–96), and ''The Demon Headmaster (1996 TV series), The Demon Headmaster'' (1996–98). Life Cresswell was born in Kirkby- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahar Djaout
Tahar Djaout (11 January 1954 – 2 June 1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group. Early life He was born in 1954 in Oulkhou, a village in the Kabylie region. After university he worked as a journalist for ''Algérie Actualité'', and by the late 1980s, he became one of Algeria's foremost literary talents. Assassination He was assassinated by the Armed Islamic Group because of his support of secularism and opposition to what he considered fanaticism. He was attacked on 26 May 1993 as he was leaving his home in Algiers, Algeria. He died on 2 June, after lying in a coma for a week. One of his attackers professed that he was murdered because he "wielded a fearsome pen that could have an effect on Islamic sectors." After his death the BBC made a documentary about him entitled 'Shooting the Writer', introduced by Salman Rushdie. Work * '' The Last Summer of Reason'' Novel, Ruminator Books, 2001] (French ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gordon (Scottish Author)
Richard Alexander Steuart Gordon (18 May 1947 – 7 February 2009) was a Scottish author born in Banff, Scotland who wrote numerous science fiction novels, encyclopedias, and travel guides. Gordon's novels are noted for their mix of historical fact and creative fictionalized events. Life Gordon was brought up and educated in Buckie and Perthshire. His family's home is located at the Cairnfield estate near Arradoul. Gordon studied history at Newcastle University and was offered post-graduate work, but instead he accepted a job as a market researcher. He later left this position and made a career as a writer.Archived at Archive.org His first novels were published in the 60s in New Worlds magaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Louise Curry
Jane Louise Curry, born September 24, 1932, in East Liverpool, Ohio, is a prolific author of adventure, fantasy, mystery, time travel, and American Indian tales for older children and teenagers. She has written 39 books. Her novels include the famous Abaloc series, set in the magical landscape of the Ohio Valley The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its mouth on the Mississippi River in Cairo, ... and surrounding regions in contemporary, medieval, and prehistoric times. Bibliography Abaloc series # ''Beneath the Hill'' 1967 # ''The Change-Child'' 1969 # ''The Daybreakers'' 1970 # ''Over the Sea's Edge'' 1971 # ''The Watchers'' 1975 # ''The Birdstones'' 1977 # ''The Wolves of Aam'' 1981 # ''Shadow Dancers'' 1983 Smith Family series * ''The Big Smith Snatch'' 1989 * '' The Great Smith House Hustle'' 1993 Collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Link
Charlotte Link (born 5 October 1963) is a German writer. She is among the most successful contemporary authors writing in German. Life Charlotte Link is the daughter of well-known German writer and journalist Almuth Link. She wrote her first work, '' Die schöne Helena'', when she was just 16 years old and published it at the age of 19. She is known as much for novels about contemporary life as for psychological detective novels in the English manner. Her books '' Sturmzeit'', '' Wilde Lupinen'', and '' Die Stunde der Erben'' form a trilogy. These, among others, have been filmed for TV series for the German television station ZDF ZDF (), short for (; ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany ( .... Her novel '' Am Ende des Schweigens'' was nominated in 2004 for the fiction category of the Deuts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Barton
Beverly Marie Beaver (née Inman; December 23, 1946 – April 21, 2011), better known as Beverly Barton, was an American author, known for her romantic suspense novels. She wrote over thirty contemporary romance novels and created the popular ''The Protectors'' series for Harlequin Enterprises–owned Silhouette's Intimate Moments lines. Her first book, ''Yankee Lover'', was published in July 1990 by Harlequin's imprint, Silhouette Desire. Biography Beverly Barton was born in Alabama. She spent her formative years between Tuscumbia and Barton, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee. After graduating from Chattanooga Central High School, she attended college at the University of North Alabama The University of North Alabama (UNA) is a public university in Florence, Alabama, United States. It is the state's oldest university. Occupying a campus in a residential section of Florence, UNA is located within a four-city area that also .... Barton was a wife, mother, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
