Showing results for "Banshee" in Literature & Fiction

In Banshee, Samantha Baxter - wife, mother, poetry professor - learns she has breast cancer and then ruins her own life. Tumbling through a catastrophic midlife crisis, she gives herself permission to partake in behaviors she's observed in her male colleagues, including having an affair with a student her daughter's age, ranting at board meetings, and telling her poetry students what she really thinks of their work. Underneath biting, witty narration lurks a childish, confused, and unrealized adult woman hell-bent on destroying her relationships and professional life.

The Banshee: Is she to be feared, loathed, or is she simply misunderstood? Barry Fitzgerald and Cormac Strain explore some of the history of this very famous entity of myth and legend to reveal things are not possibly what they seem. They speak to people from all over the island of Ireland who have come face to face with this messenger of death and share their encounters. These encounters are not from the dark regions of Irish history but rather happened within the last 50 years.

Benton Bertrand is a banshee, cursed with the ability to sense death. Every time he sleeps, he becomes a trapped passenger within a murderer’s skin: able to hear, see, and feel every part of their kill. No matter how hard he tries, it always ends the same way - with death.

Brian, Nik and Darby—three friends practiced in ennui, binge-drinking, hooking up with strangers and fighting supernatural crime (when Brian's not committing it as a werewolf once a month)—have been sent by Abe Van Helsing (yes, one of those Van Helsings) to try to track down a colleague who has gone missing in London. As they putz around the city, following any leads that might help them find their British counterpart, they uncover a clairvoyancy smuggling ring, located right in the heart of the financial district. Who's kidnapping all the fortune tellers in Soho, and why?

Being the president of the Iron Punishers MC should've been enough for Reaper. Only in the last year or so has him feeling like something is missing. When he sees his sister and her little family, he thinks he might know what that is: someone special. That someone you can always come home to at night, and who's always there for you. However, the way things are going, he's doubting whether such a person like that exists for him. That is, until he strong-arms a club brother into going to the doctor, and he sees his dream princess, Snow White, in the flesh.

Ein einziges Pokerblatt verändert das Leben auf Schloss Harrowmore. Hilflos müssen Walt und Livie mit ansehen, wie sich der Südflügel in ein Heim für ruhelose Seelen verwandelt. Verantwortlich für diese unerwünschte Entwicklung scheint ihnen die junge Zeitreisende Allison zu sein. Und so setzt Livie alles daran, sowohl den neuen Mitbewohnern als auch dem jüngsten Spross der Harrowmores ihre Geheimnisse zu entreißen.

Alana ist eine Banshee, eine Todesfee der irischen Mythologie. Sie sieht über dem Kopf jedes Menschen eine rückwärts laufende Uhr, die in roten Ziffern die noch verbleibenden Monate, Tage, Stunden und Minuten seiner Lebenszeit anzeigt. Da Banshees in dem Ruf stehen, Unglück zu bringen, bleibt sie lieber für sich. Allerdings gestaltet sich das gar nicht so einfach, denn Alana kreischt automatisch in bester Banshee-Manier wie eine Sirene los, wenn ihr ein Mensch begegnet, der in den nächsten Tagen sterben wird.

In an effort to put her vengeful past behind her, Captain Branna Kelly charts a new course with the help of the Banshee's newest officer, Julia Farrow. Her first mission on the path to redemption is to restore order at a neighboring port. Julia's new fighting skills are put to the test when they go up against the deadly Ferryman and her cutthroat captain, Isaac Shaw. She more than holds her own, both with and without a blade, and Branna is torn between supporting and protecting her.

It's the early 1700s and sixteen-year-old Julia Farrow, spirited daughter of a shipping company owner, lives and loves on her own terms. With a sharp mind and sharper tongue, she constantly defies family and society expectations with no regard for the consequences.

I have a simple arrangement with the Faerie Court: I track down the beings they want found and in exchange for that, they let me live. But a girl's gotta eat, even a banished banshee, so I do what I have to, even if that means working for humans. Rent money doesn't grow on trees. Darcey Thorne is one of the last of her kind-a banshee, harbinger of death - but due to a past indiscretion which saw her imprison her ex-lover, she now works as a bounty hunter for the Faerie Court. When the Court jerks her chain and tells her to hunt down MacNa, an old friend, Darcey has to obey.

When a heartbroken widow with a newborn baby turns up at Darcey's office saying she's being followed, Darcey detects secret magic at work. She investigates the case, but her efforts are thwarted by her rival in the Elite. For some reason, no one wants Darcey to discover the truth. And it looks like she won't when her own past catches up with her. She's hauled off to Faerie to face execution. Her crime: murdering Mother of the Hunt. Solve the case. Check. Escape with her life. Check. And juggle the supernatural hotties vying for her attention? Umm, maybe.

"Mister Broken Tree geht es gut. Dem Sasquatch leider nicht." November 1887. Für Caoimhe "Kiwa" O’Shea ist nichts mehr so, wie es einmal war. Die Welt hinter dem Nebel – die Nebula Convicto – ist wie eine Lawine über sie gekommen und hat ihr altes Leben als Polizeifotografin hinfortgerissen. Zwischen Zauberinnen und Zauberern, Gestaltwandlern und Nachtstreifern, Unendlicher Legion und Nebelwacht sucht sie ihre Rolle und ihre Zukunft – und stößt dabei auf die Vergangenheit und uralte Talente, die man besser nicht heraufbeschwören sollte. Es sei denn, man ist der Macht der Cailleach gewachsen.

Ein neues Abenteuer aus dem dunklen Meer der Sterne! Es ist das Jahr 4504 nach dem Alten Kalender – das neue goldene Zeitalter der Piraterie! Riesige Sternenschiffe verkehren zwischen den Systemen der Liga Freier Planeten – willkommene Beute für die Raumpiraten, die das All unsicher machen. Die gefürchtetsten von ihnen sind die legendären Schwarzen Banshees. FOLGE EINS: Joshua Moon ist erster Maat der Banshees und trotz seiner jungen Jahre bereits ein mit allen Wassern gewaschener Pirat.

Do you want to know how a corpse feels, moldering in the grave? Listen to this audiobook of weird, bizarre menace. "When the Banshee Calls," a short horror story by Wayne Rogers published in the May-June 1938 issue of Terror Tales, narrated by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, will creep you into the crypt.