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Les Daniels

    Les Daniels était un historien et critique axé sur l'histoire et la culture des bandes dessinées. Par ses écrits, il a éclairé l'évolution de ce médium et analysé son impact sur la société. L'approche de Daniels était profondément ancrée dans la compréhension des bandes dessinées comme forme d'art et comme reflet des tendances sociétales plus larges. Son travail a offert un aperçu précieux de l'histoire riche et souvent sous-estimée de cette narration visuelle.

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    The Giant Book of Vampires
    Marvel
    • Marvel

      Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics - Special Collector's Issue

      • 287pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Marvel comics have entertained generations of readers--while influencing broad segments of popular culture with characters like The Human Torch, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man--for over 50 years. Daniels tells the Marvel story with grace and wit, and takes us behind the scenes to meet the comics' creative writers and artists. Illustrated with over 700 examples of cover art, story art, memorabilia and photographs, and 17 profiles of main Marvel super heroes.

      Marvel
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    • Modern masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in this specially re-vamped edition of the classic compilation every horror fan will want to sink their teeth into. From an award-winning editor who knows the genre backwards, here is the very best in vampire fiction: from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from the dark origins of fairy tales to a modern reinterpretation of the King of the Undead himself, Count Dracula. This revised edition features over a dozen new stories, including Tina Rath's A Trick of the Dark and Kim Newman's Andy Warhol's Dracula, as well as classic novellas such as Hugh B. Cave's Stragella and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Investigating Jericho. There are contributions by Nancy Kilpatrick, Christopher Fowler, Paul Mcauley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tina Rath, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison and Kim Newman.

      The Giant Book of Vampires
      3,9
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      • 404pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Creature condannate, nelle notti di plenilunio, a subire orripilanti metamorfosi e ad assalir gli esseri umani più indifesi,spesso proprio le persone da loro amate,i licantropi costituiscono la figura più tragica del pantheon orrorifico. Ventitre racconti tradotti per la prima volta in italiano riuniscono, in questa antologia,i nomi più prestigiosi della narrativa fantastica che si sono magistralmente cimentati nella rielaborazione del mito del Lupo Mannaro - rilanciato anche dal Cinema con il film "Wolf",interpretato da Jack Nicholson e da Michelle Pfeiffer - Graham Masterton,Peter Tremayne,Karl Edward Wagner,Ramsey Campbell, Basil Copper con i loro uomini-lupo rievocano in ventitre modi diversi la natura animale che è in ciascuno di noi. Dopo aver letto le storie di questo libro, le notti di luna piena non saranno più le stesse per noi...

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