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How Engaging Horror Helps Us Fear Rightly Is it possible to be scaredin a good way? In Be Afraid, theologian and psychological scientist Kutter Callaway explores the surprising relationship betweenfear, horror, and Christian faith. Drawing from film, psychology, and theology, this book engages popular horror narratives to ask what our deepest fears reveal about what we truly love, long for, and believe. Be Afraid explores howour Christian faith is made better when we engage with the horror genre. According to Callaway, Christian life isnt about eliminating fear, its about redirecting it. This book offers a fresh, often funny, and deeply honest theological reflection onthe shared fears and anxieties of our culture that is as engaging in a classroom as it is in a book club. By exploring the genre of horror through the lens of Christian faith, Be Afraid: demonstrates howthat faith is enriched by engaging with horror; offers theological insight into our cultures fascination with the terrifying; helps readers learn how to redeem real world fears; and includes discussion questions for individual or group reflection. Scripture itself contains many stories filled with horror and gore: Jael and Sisera, John the Baptists beheading, and even the crucifixion of Jesus. Be Afraid argues that engaging with horror storieswhether in the media or in the Biblecan benefit our spiritual lives by teaching us how to fear rightly. The Bible calls on Christians to think about what is good, beautiful, and true. And sometimes, the truth is horrifying. About the Series The Discovering God in Pop Culture series seeks to demonstrate how Christian faith is enriched and made better by critical and creative engagement with pop culture. In each volume, readers explore a popular topic through the lens of the Christian faith.

Uncover the Gifts of Your Tenderheartedness Have you always felt a little different? Do you find the world overstimulating and your own thoughts and feelings overwhelming? Maybe your relationship with God feels like a heavylist of obligations, and caring for others leaves you tired and empty. For the highly sensitive person (HSP), this inner experience can be both a gift and a challenge. In The Highly Sensitive Christian, author Jason Cusick shares pastoral insight and his personal journey as an HSP to reframe sensitivity not as a weakness to be fixed but as a God-given strength to be embraced. Research shows that 1520 percent of people have an innate sensitivity, making them highly discerning, deeply feeling, and uniquely attuned to the world. While your tenderheartedness comes naturally, it can also leave you feeling like youre not as "strong" as someone without this gift. This book helps you navigate these challenges, celebrate your giftedness, and develop lasting spiritual resilience. In this book, highly sensitive Christians will discover how to See your sensitivity as a superpower. Reframe your innate sensitivityas a good gift from God, designed to be celebrated and shared. Develop spiritual resilience. Learn practical ways to grow and move from feeling overwhelmed to empowered, engaging with the prayers, Scripture, discussion questions, and action steps included with each chapter. Listen to your body. Pay attention to your bodys signals rather than dismiss them. Deepen your faith. Unearth and correct theological beliefs thatmay have hindered your spiritual growth, and find new freedom in your relationship with God. Strengthen your relationships. Friends, family, and church communities can understand, celebrate, and benefit from highly sensitive loved ones. This encouraging book enables you to experience your tenderheartedness as the strength God intended for you. As you embrace your tenderheartedness, you can learn to carry and share your gifts in ways that honor God,others, and yourself. Whether you are a highly sensitive Christian seeking to feel seen and understood, or a pastor, friend, or family member wanting to better support the tenderhearted people in your life, The Highly Sensitive Christian offers a hopeful path forward.

A resonant coming-of-age novel, and a story of intergenerational struggle and societal changeIro left his village to continue his studies in Abidjan. With his friends, Thierry, Malick, and Yeo, they form a happy, resourceful group, doing odd jobs around the neighbourhood. Of all of them, Iro is the most determined and ambitious. But when his father dies everything is turned upside down, as he realises how little he knew about his life, his dreams, and his losses. Iros certainties collapse, and new, more complex truths emerge that will allow Iro and his friends to chart their path and find reconciliation and peace for themselves and their families. A novel that questions the heritage of fathers, the ambition of sons, the divide between the villages and their laws and the freedoms and loneliness of the cities, Falles debut is the story of a young man who rises, emancipates himself, and finds his truth.

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wildes about to break them all.Stella Wilde is secretly in love with the hottest guy in school, Isaac Calder. He seems to love her back, but theres a problem - he already has a girlfriend, the gorgeous Grace Reyes.When Isaac is killed in a car accident, the entire school is turned upside down with grief. And while Grace can mourn publicly, Stella has to hide her feelings to stop people from finding out about her and Isaac being more than friends.But how long can Stella keep lying - to herself and everyone else? And when the truth finally comes out, how will it affect her newfound friendship with Grace?

When a woman haunted by a relentless presence seeks Annie Jacksons help, Annie and her brother Lewis are drawn into an investigation that reaches deep into Scotlands darkest history. The dark, spine-tingling Annie Jackson series continuesSpine-tinglingly thrilling with an extraordinary sense of placeCaro RamsayA master storyteller at the very top of his game mesmeric and suspensefulMarion Todd_________Evie Cartwright first speaks to the dead as a child. When she leaves home for university, her ability takes a terrifying turn after she witnesses a brutal murder. By morning, she is haunted by a dead serial killer who refuses to leave her alone, and marked by a cut across her neck that never heals.For the next ten years, Evie is driven from place to place, searching for a way to rid herself of the voice that torments her day and night. When desperation leaves her with nowhere else to turn, she arrives at the remote Highland home of Annie Jackson, hoping she will finally find answers.As Annie and her brother Lewis begin to investigate, helped by an old friend with specialist knowledge of the occult, they are drawn into a dark and dangerous search that reaches deep into Scotlands history. And some ghosts are not content to remain in the shadowsA gothic thriller with a spellbinding mystery at its heart, The Cutting is the fourth instalment in Michael J. Malones acclaimed Annie Jackson series, and this time, danger may be impossible to outrun.__________

LIVE. READ. RESIST.Mitch, a passionate bookseller, is arrested one morning for committing an unthinkable crime: selling books that have been banned. After five years in prison, all Mitch wants to do is to regain his freedom and settle back into his bookshop.But fate has other plans. On the same day Mitch crosses paths with the man who put him behind bars, he also encounters Anna, a woman who could well be the love of his life. From that moment on, Mitch finds himself caught between an irresistible desire for revenge and an irresistible desire for love . . .A whimsical comedy brimming with charm, tenderness and humanity, and a tribute to the transformative power of literature, this is a novel that will capture the hearts of book lovers around the world.

Through a series of on the ground interviews and analysis of national trends, The Rise of Reform investigates whether the Reform Party represents a genuine threat to the Labour-Conservative establishments stranglehold on British politics. Are Farages party a paper tiger or about to form the next UK government?Nick Tyrone is a liberal Remainer. Can he be convinced by Reforms offer by spending hours and hours with representatives of the party over the course of a year?

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he ended the post-1945 Pax Americana which had underwritten eighty years of global stability and opportunity since World War II. After military interventions in Iran and Venezuela, and with Greenland on the cards, the United States seems to be returning to a former imperial age, dominated by itself, Russia and China. With its unparalleled military capabilities and its status as an economic guarantor to almost two thirds of the planet, this seems the likeliest outcome. But is the old world likely to reemerge from the shadows? Or can smaller states like Taiwan, Switzerland and Singapore provide a blueprint for how we can chart a bolder, more promising future?From the former Director of Chatham House, After America is an original and surprising analysis of the post-America order - and a bold vision for the future of geopolitics.

In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his heart. Lying in wait on rooftops, he takes aim at people below while his traumatized mother cowers in their flat. But the violence eats away at any sense of morality as he kills civilians and combatants indiscriminately, for the sake of killing itself. His routine is disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for his mother, and his increasingly disturbing obsession with her soon threatens to push them all into the abyss. Now appearing in English more than twenty years after its original publication, Mathias Enards debut novel is a timeless study of how extreme violence corrodes the soul, tracking the convulsions of a brutalized mind in spare, unflinching prose.

In the 1930s, the airship was viewed as the future of transatlantic travel and a brave new era of global connectedness. Germanys safe, fast and efficient airships brought it back into the international fold after its humiliation in World War I. But on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship caught fire in the sky over New Jersey in a blaze that shocked the world and presaged another era of senseless violence.In Shadow Before the Flame, acclaimed historian Catherine Grace Katz uncovers fresh research that unveils the Hindenburg disaster at a pivotal moment in time, coming as it does at the crossroads of the rising tension between fascist Germany and the United States. Katz traces the experiences of a captivating cast of characters: an heiress, a world-renowned acrobat, a German Jew working to save his family from the clutches of Nazism, a young cabin boy on his first voyage with the crew. Meanwhile, on the ground were two intrepid journalists whose reporting on the Hindenburg would invent breaking news as we now know it. In a gripping, ticking-clock narrative, Shadow Before the Flame is a story that begins with the promise of a future made bright by technological innovation and ends with caskets draped in swastikas in New York City.

The race to reach the South Pole is a compelling tale of courage and hardship. Begun by the Ancient Greeks, its history climaxed 2,000 years later with the ultimate triumph and tragedy of Amundsen and Scott, separated by a matter of weeks. Discover the role played by an ancient obelisk in early exploration, learn how the frozen land repulsed the advances of great explorers like Captain Cook and explore how the Antarctic continent was finally discovered by chance.It is a remarkable story that captures ambitious men like Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton along with the unsung heroes like Crean and Wild, who spent longer on the ice than the better-known explorers. This dramatic history is expertly woven by polar historian Michael Smith, who introduces us to the opportunistic Norwegian claiming to be the first to set foot on Antarctica, the kilted Scots piper performing to a puzzled penguin and the French captain who typified national sang-froid by cracking open the champagne. Smith also examines the life-changing differences between Amundsen and Scott in the final march to the Pole and how Scotts journey, a century after his death, continues to this day.Ultimately, Towards the Coldest Place highlights the great explorers and colourful characters whose incredible feats in the worlds most inhospitable region have made Antarctic exploration so enduringly popular.

Curiouser and curiouser...On an ordinary summers afternoon, Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole and finds herself at the start of an extraordinary adventure. In the dreamlike world of Wonderland, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatters Tea Party and plays croquet with the Queen of Hearts.Filled with clever wordplay, whimsical nonsense and boundless imagination, Alice in Wonderland is a timeless work of childrens literature that continues to captivate readers of all generations.

THE BOY is a powerful novel of wasted talent, loss, greed and revenge but also of discovered genius and life-affirming friendship.By turns terrifying, taut, humane and tender it tells the origin story of Irelands organised-crime epidemic with a skill and grace which belies a debut novel, and is the calling-card of a ringing new voice in Irish fiction.When the Guards knock on the door the Boy already knows his mother is dead. His father flees to the pub, leaving him to wait alone. Soon his brother Fallon, half-protector and half-outlaw, draws him into a world where grief and crime are rarely separated. At the same time, a wealthy landowner harbours grotesque secrets in the countryside - a hidden "family" of abducted boys, a nightmare lurking beneath respectability.As the Boy moves through these fractured worlds - his fathers guilt, his uncles paramilitary past, his brothers violent death - he becomes both witness and inheritor of a brutal legacy.Think of a space where the layered complexity of Tana French meets the whip-smart dialogue and brutal beauty of Colin Barrett and the sharp tenderness and humour of Graeme Armstrongs The Young Team and youre somewhere near where this novel will take you.THE BOY is a dark, lyrical crime debut. It is unflinching, propulsive, and unforgettable.

The role of religion in war and post-war times has regained central importance in public discourse, particularly in Western countries. After decades of research on religion and peace and especially Christianity and peace public and academic attention has (re)turned to war and violence in the history of religions in general and of Christianity in particular. This collection brings together scholars from theology, history, area and cultural studies to examine the relationships between wars and Christian internationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The contributions cover case studies from China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, the Middle East, North America, Scandinavia and Southern Africa. The temporal range goes beyond the narrow focus of the First World War and includes wars between non-Western countries and colonial wars. Many chapters open the topic up to non-Western perspectives and enlarge our understanding of the role of the young ecumenical movement in war and post-war times and, beyond that, they demonstrate how in the wars of a century ago Christians tried to negotiate between internationalist and nationalist views and to deal with and overcome wartime disruptions.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Philip of Spain is known in England primarily as the husband of Mary I and the adversary of Elizabeth I. The Spanish Armada hangs about his neck like an albatross. He is defined by his brief marriage, his lack of Englishness, his Catholicism, his otherness, and all the additional layers of complication that these bring.Yet Philips life encompasses most of the major struggles and issues of the sixteenth century, as he battled to control the vast Empires acquired by his father, alongside his crippling debts. A complex and private man, Philip dealt with personal tragedy whilst fighting fires across Europe and presiding over a golden era of art, literature and architecture.As the 500th anniversary of Philips birth approaches, Amy Licence places him in his cultural context to confront the black legend; she explores anew his relationship with England and invites us to take a fresh look at the man, the myths and the marriages of Englands forgotten (Tudor-era) king.

We dont normally associate Scotland with vampires, but there is a rich history of mythology and folklore surrounding the undead.From the Pagan baobhan-sith of the Highlands, a sixteenth-century stranger that was suspected of being a vampire in Galloway, to a vampire that was terrorising wildlife in Lochmaben in the 90s, the vampire is alive or rather, undead and well in Scottish history and culture. This is a unique exploration of Scottish history and of a horror hero.

This collection of three uncanny tales highlights the best of a 19th-century German author who is seen by many as the father of modern sci-fi and fantasy. In The Sandman, young Nathanael grows up terrified of a legendary figure who will steal his eyes if hes caught out of bed at night - but its only when Nathanael has grown to adulthood, seemingly settled and happy, that the full, terrifying truth unfolds. A living doll, a series of doppelgangers, and the seeds of madness combine in this classic story of self-destruction.The Cremona Violin also deals with obsession and thwarted desire, this time between an overbearing father and a musically talented daughter who may die of heart failure if she unleashes the full power of her extraordinary voice. Suppressed passion and possessive control prove a fatal mix in this powerful and claustrophobic story. The Golden Pot, meanwhile, is a novella-length tale which Hoffmann believed was his masterpiece. Disturbing, exciting and dream-like, it introduces us to the bumbling Anselmus, whose romantic tribulations are complicated by a witchs curse and the fact that hes in love with a girl who also happens to be a snake.Influential in the worlds of both literature and music during his lifetime, Hoffmanns doppelgangers, unattainable love objects and sinister puppet masters have lived on, becoming key figures in the modern imagination.

The CIA forced Lily to retire before she was ready. Shed spent forty years as a field agent. Shed been skilled, resourceful, dedicated everything that makes a good agent, but shed rubbed too many of her bosses the wrong way. They jumped on a botched op as an excuse to fire her. Now in her seventies, waiting in a doctors office, she reads a magazine article that startles her out of retirement.The story casts doubt on everything she believed about her first and happiest posting in Hayalistan, one of the old Soviet republics. Lilys angry, and she decides to find out what really happened when she was stationed there. As word of her investigation gets back to the CIA, the Company knows they must silence her. But Lilys aging body cant perform the feats it managed in her forties and fifties, and escaping their attempts on her life will test her physical and mental skills at a whole new level.

The day Clara started her new (dream) job as an assistant to her photography idol, she was met with an assumption that caught her off guard and stunned her silent. Suddenly, she has to bring a girlfriend to the gallerys opening in a few weeks all because she choked up and failed to correct her boss that she is, in fact, straight.Evan was recently dumped by her fellow teacher fiancee for a mutual co-worker and is still trying to figure out where it all went wrong. So when she gets the news the happy new couple will be hosting the staffs holiday party, she feels utterly horrified by her single status and looks for a quick solution.Together, these two life-long friends make a plan to get through the gallery opening and holiday party by pretending to date one another. Easy... right?That is until Clara starts developing real feelings for Evan, shocking herself. All the while Evan realizes that perhaps pretending to date your straight best friend, who youve had a crush on for half your life isnt the best idea.

This collection of fifteen stories from the cult author of Ice examines war and mental illness from her signature surreal point of view. Inspired by Kavans own experiences nursing traumatized Second World War soldiers and as a patient in various asylums, these pieces communicate the claustrophobia and isolation of life amidst conflict or caught in the gears of an institutional machine - but also the stunning beauty of physical experience, as her cast of outsiders find themselves pulled back into the world despite its hostility.In the title story, a young man living in an asylum must navigate the often unreadable reality around him, taking cues from malevolent flowers and inhumanly brisk nurses, as we are left to wonder whether the cure harms more than the disease. Outside the asylum grounds, institutions still exert terrifying power, as an unnamed refugee tries to navigate a Kafkan bureaucracy to escape a war-ravaged metropolis in Our City, and is distracted from the hopelessness of the task by the beauty of silvery barrage balloons and young women at their windows. Humanity goes to war with nature, too, in The Gannets, a brief, disturbing story that predates Daphne du Mauriers The Birds, featuring a band of impoverished children engaged in a horrific game with unnaturally predatory seabirds.At times cleanly modernist, at others ornately strange and dream-like, Kavans writing is always propulsive, powered by the tension between the menace closing in around her characters, and the incomparable loveliness of the strange world they inhabit.