Sentences with phrase «with macabre stories»

Kaplan, a professor of parasitology and himself a victim of amebic dysentery and 8 - inch roundworms, gives a raucous crash course that blends surprising biology with macabre stories.

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Vampire stories aside, the idea of rejuvenating the body with young blood dates back to macabre 1950s experiments that stitched young and old mice together so they shared a circulatory system.

Keeping with that film's medieval European setting, you could also check out Tale Of Tales, a macabre collection of stories within stories — featuring sea monsters, giant fleas, and water - breathing albino twins — from Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah).

(2015) dir Matteo Garrone w / Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson [133 min; DCP] Based on three spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by 17th - century folklorist Giambattista Basile, TALE OF TALES unleashes a barrage of mind - bogglingly gorgeous and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the (mis) adventures of three kings: in the kingdom of Darkwood, the King (Reilly) and his Queen (Hayek) attempt to conceive a child through very unusual means; meanwhile, in Highhills, the none - too - bright monarch (Jones) marries off his daughter to a brutal ogre while developing a strange obsession with breeding a giant flea; and, the sex - obsessed crown of Strongcliff (Cassel) is in for a shock when the woman he falls in love with is not quite what she seems.

Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor, director John Landis (National Lampoon's Animal House) delivers a contemporary take on the classic werewolf tale in this story of two American tourists who, while traveling in London, find their lives changed forever when a vicious wolf attacks them during a full moon.

It's the «boy who cried wolf» story with a vampire tossed in, merging a De Palma-esque sleazy, sensational thriller with goopy (but mild) gore, and making an entertaining adolescent fantasy film for lovers of the macabre.

The killer leaves some clues, while Poe responds with some macabre original stories in the newspaper that he hopes will inspire a break in this perplexing case.

The movie possesses a certain energy that propels the story forward with macabre, cynical humor, but it also becomes repetitive after a few too many jabs — both satirical and physical.

With the ongoing struggle between man and monster and the trippy mythology gifted to him by Moore, Swamp Thing presents different creators with the chance to tell deeply human and emotional stories in the world of the macabre and the supernatuWith the ongoing struggle between man and monster and the trippy mythology gifted to him by Moore, Swamp Thing presents different creators with the chance to tell deeply human and emotional stories in the world of the macabre and the supernatuwith the chance to tell deeply human and emotional stories in the world of the macabre and the supernatural.

Those titles include Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers (2012) Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie & Unexplained (2013 — co-authored with Jenny Jelen), Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries (2014), Creepy Capital: Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region (2016) and Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales about Hospitals, Sanatoriums and Other Institutions (2017 - co-authored with Rhonda Parrish) and the forthcoming Macabre Montreal: Ghostly Tales, Ghastly Events and Gruesome True Stories (co-authored with Shayna Krishnasamy)

The new campaigns are for Budding Reader Book Set 1: Cat And Rat (Ten Books) by Melinda Thompson with Melissa Ferrell; National Book Award winning coming - of - age story Love Like Gumbo by Nancy Rawles; Obama Search Words by Stephen Black; So You Want to be a Librarian by Lauren Pressley; and «a macabre, eco-friendly, erotic sci - fi fantasy satire» The Third Awakening by Dennis Weiser.

This publication is conceived as a platform to present the wider scope of her work and at its core is a compendium of her writings, which oscillate between lyrical poems and fable - like macabre short stories, including three new texts: The Half - Smile, Problems With The Moon, and An Inquisition To Divine The Necessary Things.