Practice till you drop . . . dead.When Jerry finds a dusty old piano in the attic of his new house, his parents offer to pay for lessons. At first, taking piano seems like a cool idea.But there's something creepy about Jerry's piano teacher, Dr. Shreek. Something really creepy. Something Jerry can't quite put his finger on. Then Jerry hears the stories. Terrifying stories. About the students at Dr. Shreek's music school. Students who went in for a lesson . . . and never came out.

Aleister Crowley's appeal on the level of popular culture has been well catered for by a number of biographies that have appeared in recent years, but the more intellectual side to him, which is equally fascinating, has not received so much serious treatment. Crowley, a Modern Master is neither an account of his life, nor a straightforward presentation of his teaching, but an attempt to place him clearly in the context of modern ideas as well as a number of older traditions.

Underground filmmaker Carlos Atanes has been trying to make a movie about Aleister Crowley and his Magick for more than ten years. In the beginning of 2007 this was the third and last attempt of the deal with Magick: "Aleister Crowley in the Mouth of Hell". This script is structured in the reverse order of the Major Arcana of Crowley's Tarot. The plot describes the mystical trip of Crowley through the Duat –the egyptian underworld–, the encounters with significant characters in his real life –people as Hanni Jaegger, Fernando Pessoa, Leila Wadell, Victor Neuburg, Raoul Loveday– and the confrontation with the demon Choronzon, his old adversary. Here you have the screenplay such as it was written and never filmed.

Following the vicissitudes of friendship between the sexes in some of England's key writers, the author traces a history of idioms for today's friendships—their vulnerability, limits, and potential for change.

Romantweeluik waarin een acteur die fout was in de oorlog, na veertig jaar terugblikt op gebeurtenissen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Devoted completely to subtle eroticism, this volume features a collection of classical erotic women portraits telling of desire, longing, and the dignity of sensuality. The models proudly show their bodies, performing erotic acts in strong black and white images. This bilingual edition includes English and German.

Presents a provacative study of the diverse and complex characters of the the six wives of Henry VIII and their impact on the world

Na een ontvoering, vlak voor zijn bar mitswa, door een amusante oudere heer leert een 13-jarige jongen veel over zijn verleden. 

Nono, bijna dertien, krijgt voor zijn bar mitswa van zijn vader een verrassingsreisje. Maar dit loopt uit de hand wanneer hij met de elegante meesteroplichter Felix een aantal misdaden begaat en de politie achter zich aan krijgt. Tussen alle avonturen door ontdekt Nono het ware verhaal van zijn vader en zijn overleden moeder, en dat brengt hem ertoe zich af te vragen wie hij eigenlijk is.

Een wonderbaarlijk boek voor zowel oudere als jongere lezers, die zich al vaker hebben afgevraagd: wat is dat eigenlijk, volwassen worden?

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters and documents and first-ever interviews with Celine's widow, Frederic Vitoux brilliantly weaves together all the available information on Celine into an extraordinary portrait of Celine's temptuous life and times. Photographs.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary, 3 August 1914. Drawing on a wealth of material from the Guardian archives 'When the lamps went out' presents a surprising, immediate, sometimes bleakly humorous, sometimes horrifying insight into life during the Great War. We see Boy Scouts patrolling the British coasts, David Lloyd George addressing women war workers, Charlie Chaplin impersonators on the Euston Road and Vesta Tilley at the Ardwick Empire. We see suffragist nurses on the Western Front and Bolsheviks in Glasgow, Pathan soldiers in Flanders and Anglo-Japanese armies in China. Small countries are saved - and aliens persecuted. New technologies - from picture houses to the first reports of gas weapons - are reported upon, as well as movie stars and John Buchan's bestsellers. The bloody battles, defeats, and victories are all here but this book focuses on the women, men and children who lived, loved, defied, perished and survived in the war to end all wars.

From marvellously illustrated pages leaps a rogues’ gallery of characters past and present who have, over the last 400 years, made this bohemian corner of London what it is.