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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 63 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Gow is not only a true curiosity but also in many ways a key influence of later Cooper and Schoedsack productions including King Kong. The footage in Gow was produced by Edward A. Salisbury, a wealthy British adventurer, who in 1920 set sail in an 80-ton yacht equipped with a motion picture laboratory to, in his words, catch and hold for history a photo record of the fast, disappearing races of the South Seas Islands. Cooper and Schoedsack were among...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume Related works
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the Miss Peregrine series that includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, and the origins of the first ymbryne.
This collection of stories, written for peculiar eyes only, presents unusual folklore that are a formative part of the upbringing of peculiar children everywhere. Encoded within their pages are the locations of hidden loops, the secret...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 83 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Thure Lindhardt (Keep the Lights On) stars in this quirky horror-comedy as Lars, a former darling of the art scene slipping away into the land of has-beens and struggling with lack of inspiration. When Lars’ art dealer Ronny arranges a teaching job in a small town as a “therapeutic measure” to stir up his creative juices, things don’t quite turn out as planned. At first, life in the peaceful small town seems rosy, as he settles in and impresses...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In November 1873, a party of 21 prospectors left Salt Lake City and headed towards the mountains. Two months later, they arrived at the Ute Indian encampment where they were urged to wait out the winter. After two weeks, 6 men including 23-year old Alferd Packer who acted as their guide, decided to try to make it to an Indian agency 75 miles away. 65 days later, only Alferd Packer arrived at the agency. Over a year later the remains of the missing...
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 5
Language
English
Description
Serial killer Dexter Morgan has always lived by a single golden rule: kill only people who deserve it. But the Miami blood-spatter analyst has just become the daddy of an eight-pound curiosity named Lily Anne--and Dex's dark urges seem to have left him. Has he become a normal overprotective father? But then an eighteen-year-old girl is abducted by a bizarre group of vampires or possibly cannibals. Suddenly, Dexter is back in business.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 17 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Video in the Villages project introduces video among the Enauênê Nauê Indians, a group still isolated in the north of Mato Grosso. The 10th group to have been visited by the project, these Indians are very extroverted and respond with surprising, high-spirited performances.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the early years of the Victorian age, a newly literate class of readers turned to "penny dreadfuls" for escapist fun. Blood-curdling tales, published in installments and costing only a penny, offered gripping episodes of romance, mystery, and horror. The notorious penny dreadful Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls recounts a young woman's desperate search for her missing sailor sweetheart―a quest that ends in a Fleet Street barber shop, where...
Author
Publisher
GPP
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations, map
Language
English
Description
"The wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island and the resultant rumors of insurance fraud, mutiny, treason, and cannibalism was one of the most sensational stories of the early 18th century. Shortly after departing England with Captain John Deane at the helm, his brother Jasper and another investor aboard, and a skeleton crew, the ship encountered French privateers on her way to Ireland, where she then lingered for weeks picking up cargo. They...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Victorian explorer William Day, 13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000], p1959
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + pamphlet (4 p.)
Language
English
Description
A young woman is driven insane after witnessing her cousin's murder by cannibals. The neurosurgeon who tries to help her must also confront her aunt about her involvment in the death.
12) Bone Tomahawk
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Four men from a settlement in the old west must ride to the edge of civilization to find some local townspeople who have been abducted. What they find is an evil beyond imagination and an enemy so brutal, they will never be the same again."--Worldcat.org.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1973, four teenagers--Erin, Morgan, Kemper, and Andy--are driving through Texas on a road trip when they pick up a hitchhiker who is on her way to Mexico to score some dope. But when they pass through a small town, they see a bloody and distraught girl wandering by the roadside. After stopping to help her, they realize she's been involved in something horribly traumatic. As they piece together the story, the 5 teens are drawn into...
16) Detour
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"On the drive home from a deep desert rave, seven friends travel off the beaten path only to be trapped in a reality more horrible than any nighmare they could imagine. Cannibals roam this stretch of tortured land, feeding off unfortunate travelers. Now the friends must become as savage as their attackers if they are to escape the desert alive."--Container.
Publisher
Seville/Filmed Ent/Pdx
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 560 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hannibal is on the run in Europe, accompanied by his psychiatrist, Bedelia Du Maurier, sporting a new identity, but servicing the same insatiable appetite. As the lives of Will and Jack converge toward Hannibal again, each with their own motivations to catch him once and for all, their deadly dance turns in startling and unexpected ways.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial,S.A.U
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
La súbita aparición de un virus letal que ataca a los animales modifica de manera irreversible el mundo: desde las fieras hasta las mascotas deben ser sistemáticamente sacrificadas, y su carne ya no puede ser consumida. Los gobiernos enfrentan la situación con una decisión drástica: legalizando la cría, reproducción, matanza y procesamiento de carne humana. El canibalismo es ley y la sociedad ha quedado dividida en dos grupos: los que comen...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
291 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nando Parrado regained consciousness to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as family members and supporters, had crashed deep in the Andes. Many were dead or dying, among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a glacier at nearly 12,000 feet, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search...
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