Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 14)

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These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, werewolf, or something else entirely, it's clear that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner is no way to bring up a baby.

Customer Reviews:

danse macabre.......2007-09-26

it was everything i had hoped for in the series of Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake Vampire Hunter . I have bought the whole series and I'm enjoying myself. Each character brings their own flavor to the plot but Jean-Claude ,Richard , Micah and Nathaniel are to die for.

Unreadable.......2007-09-18

Who knew sex and the supernatural could be so boring. I had to give up on it.

It's ok but could be better........2007-09-05

I love her first books more then her new ones but its still Anita Blake! So I just got to give it a 4.

Where's the plot?.......2007-08-24

The book was ok. It's just a different formula from what i've come to expect in this series. I guess Anita's just evolving with all her powers and all the men in her life. Changes were bound to happen. I'll still read any book Laurell writes that has Anita in it. She's just a good character. Not many liked this book but if you're a true fan of the series, you take the good with the not so good.

Some positive comments.......2007-08-23

I'm not a diehard Hamilton fan, but this series is fun, imaginative and often a roller coaster ride. This book is following the darker, more erotic elements of the newer books in the series, and is particularly different in that there are no corpses, no zombies, no police. Thankfully, no extensive gunwear descriptions. Just Anita, her men and the sticky politics of vampires and the Were folk.

New light is shed on the nature of the ardeur as Anita realizes that she is indeed a succubus. She has to grapple with what her body demands, and with the fact that managing the ardeur is a responsibilty that can cost her the lives of those who are metaphysically linked to her through the two triumverates: She, Richard and Jean-Claude, as well as the new triumverate linking her with wereleopard Nathanial and vampire Damian. The new triumverate demonstrates how powerful a healthy link can be; she, Nathanial and Damian are harmonious and interdependent. It also shows how disasterous a weak union can be when she doesn't feed, Damian, and then Nathanial suffer the consequences of her carelessness.

There also appears to be some blending of personalities, Richard is showing signs of Anita's temper, (scary thing!) submissive Nathanial is becoming more confident and assertive...and dominant. The omega leopard successfully faces down the alpha wolf Richard. Jean-Claude comes to the bittersweet realization that while Anita loves him, his human servant is more in love with, and completed by her housemates Micah and Nathanial. He is growing more sentimental.

Yes, its thin on plot, but high on the soapy drama. Anita's pregnancy scare, Nathanial's face-downs with those who demean him, Richard's elation over the pregnancy, (its gotta be his, right? He's so damn manly...) and his realization that he'll never get the white picket fences with Anita, the attempted high-jacking of the ardeur, and the ballet itself. The high drama ends with some truly high-risk sex and an understanding between Anita and Asher.

I can see why die hard fans are unhappy with the direction of the series, its a far cry from the tight, bleak horror/mystery that it began with. Characters are evolving, plot-lines are being introduced and new characters are emerging. Some are just waiting in the wings for their moment in the spotlight. I look forward to finding out more about London, Wicked and Truth, Claudia, Damian, Jessica Arnett and her unrequited crush on Nathanial.

Anita's changing and evolving as well, she's dropped a lot of her standards, some for the good, some for bad. Frankly, her job as a Marshal and dealing with humans seems to be making her more a monster than rubbing shoulders (and other body parts) with the fangs and the furries.

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Fun read but...
Dead rats in Lucite
Not That Good... At All
Danse Macabre
Rambling and egotistical

Stephen King's Danse Macabre
Stephen King
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 042518160X
Release Date: 2001-09-04

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In the fall of 1978 (between The Stand and The Dead Zone), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on "Themes in Supernatural Literature." As he writes in the foreword to this book, he was nervous at the prospect of "spending a lot of time in front of a lot of people talking about a subject in which I had previously only felt my way instinctively, like a blind man." The course apparently went well, and as with most teaching experiences, it was as instructive, if not more so, to the teacher as it was to the students. Thanks to a suggestion from his former editor at Doubleday, King decided to write Danse Macabre as a personal record of the thoughts about horror that he developed and refined as a result of that course.

The outcome is an utterly charming book that reads as if King were sitting right there with you, shooting the breeze. He starts on October 4, 1957, when he was 10 years old, watching a Saturday matinee of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Just as the saucers were mounting their attack on "Our Nation's Capital," the movie was suddenly turned off. The manager of the theater walked out onto the stage and announced, "The Russians have put a space satellite into orbit around the earth. They call it ... Spootnik."

That's how the whole book goes: one simple, yet surprisingly pertinent, anecdote or observation after another. King covers the gamut of horror as he'd experienced it at that point in 1978 (a period of about 30 years): folk tales, literature, radio, good movies, junk movies, and the "glass teat". It's colorful, funny, and nostalgic--and also strikingly intelligent. --Fiona Webster

Book Description

Stephen King explores the phenomenon of horror in a century of film, television, radio, and literature. Who better than King to investigate what terrifies his fans?

"One of the best books on American popular culture in the late 20th century." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

"A labor of love." (The Washington Star)

Customer Reviews:

Fun read but..........2007-10-08

So far, one of the more entertaining reads from King, providing you know that this is not a fiction. It has some good insights who did know something about this field of work. What I like is how personal the writing is and how it make you feel like you are talking with a slightly mad excitable uncle on a camp fire at late night. I like King in his casual mode as much. And the texture and density of details, like his best works, are still here.
Having said all that, there are a couple of things that should be mentioned. The book is outdated. An updated edition is seriously needed. The said casual tone sometimes bordering on sloppy, even if it's never reach the point of incoherent.
It can also function as a very good guide for the genre. Again, the recommended list needs some updates, but as it is, it shall took a couple of months at least to get yourself familiar with all the works mentioned.

Dead rats in Lucite.......2006-12-16

"Danse Macabre" should have been subtitled "Horror Fiction in Cinema, TV, and Books: 1950 - 1979" so that Stephen King's fiction fans wouldn't accidentally pick it up and start reading it. They might be horribly disappointed.

At what is supposed to be the climax of this nonfiction book, at the sentence in which the author is summing up everything he has been trying to teach us for 397 pages, there is a riotous typo:

"...When the creator of horror is finally stripped all the way to his or her core of being we find not an agent of the norm but a friend--a capering, gleeful, red-eyed agent of chaos..."

Maybe the author does have a few red-eyed and capering friends (and readers), considering his written output. As he says about his own horror fiction: "I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out."

I sure felt like cutting a few capers while reading "Danse Macabre." King was able to draw me into a sometimes vociferous argument about his thesis and choices for great horror. It was like sitting at the bar, drinking beer and arguing with an occasionally gross friend.

Unfortunately like that slightly inebriated friend, this author tends to ramble tediously off-subject: the war in Vietnam; Patty Hearst; the fate of MGM; many not-so-hilarious anecdotes about Harlan Ellison (no, Mr. King you haven't written the longest footnote in history--see "Rats, Lice, and History" by Hans Zinsser); dismissive critiques of certain pulp authors (well, I guess that's what I'm doing now, but who is going to read this?); a rant about grammar; and a whole chapter entitled, "An Annoying Autobiographical Pause."

(Actually, some of the side-essays are minor gems if you're in the right mood, but they do bulk up King's discourse on horror.)

"Danse Macabre" is both purposefully funny (see the movie review of "Robot Monster") and inadvertently hysterical (the typos). If you are a baby boomer and have seen at least some of the 'B' movies and TV shows that Stephen King has seen, or have read a few of the horror novels he reviews, this is a humorous, thought-provoking book--a 421 page in-joke.

This book is about us, dear Boomers.

If you're not the right age, "Danse Macabre" will probably bore you with its ravings on vanished TV shows, decayed celluloid flicks, and out-of-print horror stories. King warns us in his two forenotes that he is going to concentrate on horror produced between the late fifties and early eighties. If you weren't able to read, watch TV or go to the movies back then, this book might not appeal to you.

Not That Good... At All.......2006-08-26

Okay, maybe there are some okay bits and pieces here worth reading, but still I have to say that El Kabong's review really hits the nail on the head regarding Stephen King's writing and this book in particular. When Danse Macabre first came out I was in the middle of a "Stepehen King Period," of sorts, having taken it upon myself to finally read the books of this author whom so many people had raved about for a few years. Time and again, like a gullible rube, I picked up one of King's horror books, giving him chance after chance to grab a hold of me and give me these great scares everyone was talking about. Time and again, however, I found that what was supposed to have been a time bomb of fear was actually a dud. King, after the release of Kurbrick's film version of The Shining, was fond of saying that he'd "handed Stanley Kubrick a grenade and he heroically threw his body over it," or words to that effect, as if the book of The Shining was a seering work of heart-stopping, nightmare inducing horror and in comparrison the film was a pale shadow of the potential greatness there. Sure, there were a few little scenes here and there, but for the most part is was yet another dud. Say what you want about Kurbrick's film, but it was not a watering down of a fear filled novel. If anything, Kubrick tired too hard to turn [...] into gold and perhaps he failed. Nevertheless, there remain in the film version of the book just as many bits and pieces with some effect as the book itself.

Granted, I'm not calling King a hack as I'm well aware of the fact that I'm no great writer myself. Sure, he's achieved some success, he's been somewhat important to the evolution of the horror genre in popular culture. And this brings us to this book. At the time it was released, I actually found myself somewhat inspired by Danse Macabre, but I was young then and even more muddled than I am now. Still, this book did awaken in me a more serious interest in horror than I'd had previously. Various bits and pieces of Danse Macabre have stuck in my mind over the years, but only in the most basic sense, such as King's description of the EC horror comics of the fifties, and I recently found myself tracking down a used copy due to a renewed interest in horror. "Of course," I thought to myself, "Danse Macabre will be essential in my quest to uncover the heart of horror." To virtually no surprise at all, I found that every one of El Kabong's criticism's of this book, and King's writing as a whole, was true. And that was before I read Kabong's comments, which I did so only in prelude to making my own.

So, what, specifically, is wrong with this book? Well, like I said, I am no writer (as evidenced by this review), but it is shot through with King's typical style - a very poor impression of an everyman who simply loves horror like some record collecting junkie loves rock & roll - and this style is, quite simply, a drag (a word that King probably uses himself). You have to sort through several paragraphs to get to one decent point, and that point is generally quite mundane and un-insightful. My writing may not be as "good" (for what little that is worth) but I have abolutely no doubt that I could manage just as many, and probably more, useful insights into the nature of horror as King does here. King is not only far too wordy for his own good (like myself and all other sloppy writers out there) but his insights are horribly pedestrian. He comes off as yet one more of those "meaning deniers" who seem to equazte being "real" and "honest" and "truthful" and "accurate" with being as superficial as possible and denying any attempt to find more than the most superficial and common meanings in things. Just because his mind is too dull to make any real insight into matters does not mean that those who are up to this task are simply blowing hot air. King verges dangerously close to horror's version of one of those lunk-headed Fox news personalities.

Granted, King wrote this book in, I guess, the late seventies, very early eighties, and while most of the true classic of the horror genre had been created by then, there is a certain lack of freshness here that cannot be explained away by mere datedness. With such blase, run-of-the-mill insights into horror - his chosen field - it's no wonder that Stepehen King is such an unremarkable writer and his popularity it due mainly to the great number of like-minded individual's out there who are equally as unremarkable. To King and the majority of his fans, this reads as a mark of "realness" in some way. To me - and I'm not saying I'm superior, just not so easily impressed or so ready to dismiss what I don't understand at first - this seems more like some form of forced medicocrity. I mean, WHAT IS KING AFRAID OF?

Much of King's insights into the horror products of popular culture emanate from the same two-bit, superficial, dull-witted realm as many of the film and literary critics he dismisses, not to mention the ones he praises as well. I can't remember what, if anything, he had to say about Leonrad Maltin, but that is pretty much the level of critique that you'll find here. In one paragraph he will praise something for its junk-foodiness when he sees this as being solid and common, in the next paragraph he dismisses something for the same reason. Stephen King's writing exists at a level no greater than, for example, I Married A Monster From Outer Space exists as a film, yet King's writing lacks any of that film's charm. This is merely one example here.

Then again, I also have to give King some credit. He (at least when he wrote this) was clearly a true horror fan and had/has a wide knowledge of many aspects of the genre. While the quality of his mind is a mere half-step higher than that of the run-of-the-mill comic book nerd who holds forth on how Frank Frazetta is a great artist who's paintings should hang in the Louvre (not that he's a bad artist, Frazetta is very good, and not that such work does not belong in museums, it does, but mainly as an example of commercial illustration), he is, in many ways, a real professional, albeit a professioal in the same way as the guy who fixed my sink was. The sink held for a few months and worked great, but in the end I had to go to the hardware store and buy some supplies so I could fix it myself (and it still leaks, but at least I didn't have to pay an arm and a leg).

Frankly, I'm not sure how to express the deflated reaction I had to this book on second reading. Stepehen King is simply a dull, dull-witted man with flashes of unremarkable insight that leave one (well, this "one," anyway) cold and bored. His writing reads like someone with an irritating speech impediment sounds. Or, as I used to put it years ago, after my Stepehen King experiment had ended and I judged him lacking: Stephen King is an ex-high school English teacher who writes like an ex-high school English teacher.

I'm not even sure if he did teach high school English, but that's what I recall. I also feel compelled to state that Harlan Ellison - another professional writer with some measure of accomplishment in life, and one whom King gives great praise to in this Danse Macabre - is to a large extent a trite and predictable storyteller. The fact that Stepehen King can rave so strongly about Ellison proves that his sense of proportion is way off and his insights simply cannot be trusted or are simply too mediocre to really add much to the discussion.

Danse Macabre.......2006-07-24

It was Stephen king but not what I thought the book to be. My fault but i will keep the book.

Rambling and egotistical.......2006-05-06

King at his worst.
Stephen King has produced works of utter genius but this is one to avoid. It is rambling, egotistical conceited.

Tales of the Shadowmen 3: Danse Macabre (Tales of the Shadowmen)

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The previous review says it all...almost.
A Good Year for Shadowmen

Tales of the Shadowmen 3: Danse Macabre (Tales of the Shadowmen)
Jean-Marc Lofficier , Randy Lofficier , Matthew Baugh , Paul Di Filippo , Win Scott Eckert , Rick Lai , Michael Moorcock , John Peel , Chris Roberson , and Brian Stableford
Manufacturer: Hollywood Comics
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ASIN: 1932983775

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Fantômas is dead, long live Fantômas! Doctor Omega and Captain Kronos challenge the might of the Vampire City! The Animalists overthrow Babar, King of the Elephants! King Kong falls in love for the first time! Hercule Poirot stalks a Murderer from Beyond! The Sûreté du Temps Perdu faces the Vampires and the Cat Women of the Moon invade the 20th Century-but which 20th Century? And also Fu-Manchu, Judex, Maciste, the Black Coats, Biggles, John Devil, Barbarella and many more! Welcome once again to our merry-go-round of heroes and villains of popular literature, the danse macabre of of the Shadowmen.

Customer Reviews:

The previous review says it all...almost........2007-08-19

Matthew Baugh's review of this excellent anthology (see below) is helpful, succinct, and accurate in every particular. However, he is apparently too modest to mention the story that he wrote for the volume, "The Heart of the Moon." Baugh's story, the first one in the book, is an absolutely brilliant tour de force which, if you're not already a fan of this series, is guaranteed to make you into one. I refuse to give away any spoilers, but I will say that if you are a fan of Robert E. Howard, Doctor Who, Hammer Horror, or just plain good writing, you owe it to yourself to read Baugh's story, and the rest of them in the book as well.

A Good Year for Shadowmen.......2007-06-29

This series is getting better and better. It thrives on the funny, adventurous, or uncanny parings of pop culture characters and the crossovers are getting more entertaining as they get more audacious! It is interesting to see how many of the stories are now showing the shadowy influence of the Black Coats, (a vast criminal conspiracy from the stories of Paul Feval.) There are also several nods to Madame Atomos, a Japanese master villainess. Unlike many super-criminals, she isn't interested in ruling the world. Her greatest goal is to punish the United States for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"Long Live Fantomas" by Alfredo Castelli patches a loose thread in the stories of the great villain. I don't know enough about Fantomas to fully appreciate this take on his origin, but the story is a doozy. The sheer evil of the "original" and (even more) the new Fantomas are very well handled. The shadowy presence of the Black Coats is a nice addition. There is also a new twist added to the story of history's first recorded serial killer.

"Next!" by Bill Cunningham lets Barbarella turn the tables on some of the most infamous lady's men in SF. I once read a humorous list of Star Trek words which included this entry: "Kirk - v. 1) to bend to the point of breaking the Prime Directive, as 'We really Kirked that planet.' 2) To bed multifarious members of the opposite sex from as many humanoid species as possible." (It was fun to some of the great Kirkers out-kirked for once.)

"Au Vent Mauvais" by Francois Dardaudet is a fun riff on third generation wannabe master villains. The story manages to be both funny and chilling as it gives us an idea of just how poisonous Madame Atomos' obsessive hatred for the United States is.

"Return to the 20th Century" by Paul Filippo combines the science fiction of two eras into a funny, fast moving adventure. It's amazing how good a story making creative use of the silly science of bygone generations can be!

"Les Levres Rouges" by Win Scott Eckert is his sequel to "The Eye of Oran" from volume 2. This story gives Doc Ardan a greater role as it drifts into the erotic horror of Hammer studios. It's "Doc-Savage-meets-the-lesbian-vampire-mistress-of-the-undead-elder-servitors-from-the-bottom-of-the-sea." Win manages to make a bewildering array of diverse elements come together to good effect.

"Beware the Beasts" by Greg Gick is a nifty short encounter between Doctor Omega and the inhabitants of what is probably the most famous planet in French SF. Short and funny!

"The Ape Gigans" by Micah Harris is my personal favorite from this volume. It uses an amazingly creative combination of characters. A willful heroine/villainess of a period romance meets the King of Skull Island and the prehistoric horrors from the canter of the earth! Not only does this make me (really) want to read THE ELDRICH ADVENTURES OF BECKY SHARP (Micah's upcoming novel), it even makes me want to read VANITY FAIR.

"A Dance of Night and Death" by Travis Hiltz combines the classic films of Louis Feuillade, "Las Vampires" and "Fantomas." We know a lot about the sorts of things that Irma Vep does, but this is the first glimpe I can remember of her inner workings as she has an intense encounter with the dread Fantomas.

"The Lady in the Black Gloves" by Rick Lai continues his exploration of characters form the Arsene Lupin stories. Like Rick's other stories, this tale of false identities in intricately plotted with subtle references galore. Even to someone unfamiliar with the characters he is using, this is a good creepy mystery as we look as the sordid and sadistic side of the European underworld. (It isn't all glamorous plots to control civilization you know.)

"The Murder of Randolph Carter" by Jean Marc Lofficier is a hilarious take on the country house murder mystery with Hercule Poirot in far past his depth. (That's what happens when you deal with Deep Ones I suppose.) What happens when a rational sleuth tries to solve a mystery in the bizarre milieu of H.P. Lovecraft? His little grey sells just aren't up to grasping it.

"A Day in the Life of Madame Atomos" by Xavier Maumejean is a brilliant comic piece about the villainess which pays homage to the silly spy romps of the early 1970's. The story works well throughout and the last paragraph is priceless!

"Bullets Over Bombay" by David A. McIntee is a Bollywood style adventure of the French occult detective Dr. Mystere. I have to confess, I found the conbination of musical numbers and a slaughtered village unsettling. I'm squeamins about high body counts among innocent bystandrs and that impaired my appreciation for the story. On the other hand, the glimpse of Dr. Mystere is very interesting.

"All's Fair..." by Brad Mengle asks what happens when all of the spies and mystery men in aris are interested in the same woman on the same night... A fun and humerous debut for Brad. Nice job!

"The Affair of the Bassin Les Hivers" by Michael Moorcock(!) I'd heard that Mr. Moorcock was a fan of the TOTS series and it's a blast to see him contribute a story. Not surprisingly, this mystery featured the sinister M. Zeneth the Albino. Zeineth was the inspiration for Moorcock's own Elric of Melnibone and we see shades of the doomed prince in this incarnation.

"The Successful Failure" by John Peel is a clever caper mystery with the unlikely but very likable pairing of Beautrelet and Bigglesworth on the case. A very enjoyable adventure.

"The Butterfly Files" by Joseph Altairac & Jean-Luc Rivera is a nicely paranoid short piect that gives us a fascinating (and disturbing) look at Madame Atomos before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. War warps people's souls, but some are pretty twisted to start with.

"The Famous Ape" by Chris Roberson is the most unexpected crossover I have ever seen in the TOTS series. - I remember the Babar stories vaguely but fondly (my one big quibble was that they were written in cursive.) As an adult I've heard them criticized as being pro colonialism, and that may be Chris' starting point. The result can be disturbing as we see political realities played out in the traditionally unrealistic and non-political world of children's stories. Ultimately though I really liked this. Chris isn't doing this to disturb and offend the way some revisionist authors seem to. He is provoking thought and feeling but does it in a way that is compassionate and, in the end, touching.

"Two Hunters" by Robert L. Robinson features the pairing of Judex with one of the most famous hunters in literature. Judex is probably my favorite Shadowmen character and this story does well by him. The meeting of our two heroes is perfectly logical and fits well into both of their histories. It's also a ripping good adventure.

"The Child Stealers" I was ready for something really good after part of this story in last year's volume. This was (IMO) every bit as involving as the first chapter and more exciting. It was great getting to see so much of Gregory Temple and John Devil in this one, and the minor characters included are brilliant and subtle. I am also amazed at how smoothly Stableford has moved from the voice of Ned Knob to that of Gregory Temple. The two characters are extremely different but he handles each with equal insight and sympathy.

So, another good year for the Shadowmen and their fans! I'm eagerly looking forward to Vol 4!

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The macabre in The Marquis
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One of The Best!

The Marquis: Danse Macabre
Guy Davis
Manufacturer: Oni Press
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ASIN: 1929998155

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It was during the 18th century that the Ministry of Inquisition ruled over the lands of Venisalle. In the world of The Marquis, faith and religion are the strict laws of life and death. It is into this world that the souls of hell have escaped to sin, murder, and be free by taking possession of the living. During this time, a man of the Inquisition finds himself blessed with the ability to see into the very souls of the damned and fight the demons withing. But as The Marquis begins his holy crusade to send back the escapees of hell, the battle between good and evil starts to blur into a struggle between faith and sanity.

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good.......2007-03-12

I enjoy Guy Davis's artwork. It's loose, creepy, and open for my imagination to fill in. I read the 2nd book before the 1st and I like both. The only problem I had with the 1st volume, Danse Macabre, is the Marquis's convictions were written a little too long and were repeated more times over the course of the story.

The macabre in The Marquis.......2005-10-26

Guy Davis' The Marquis shows a side of the comic book world I wasn't expecting. Sure I knew that Guy was a talented artist (Sandman Mystery Theatre & BPRD) but this comic broke down my vision of what a comic should be. With an interesting mystery mixed with demons and a crisis of faith, Danse Macabre has it all. If you like Mignola's Hellboy or any supernatural Vertigo title then you'll love The Marquis. The best part is that it shows that not only can Guy draw a great tale, he can tell one as well. All in all a great graphic novel.

Impressively Exelent.......2003-03-22

Guy Davis achieves in The Marquis what a team of talented writers and artists seldom manage to acomplish: AN EXTREEMLY WELL WRITTEN TALE THAT IS ENTERTAINING START TO FINISH. The story is amazing, the art is amazing, and most of all, Guy Davis is amazing for having done it all himself!

The Marquis is a must have for any fan of graphic novels.

One of The Best!.......2002-11-24

The Marquis is an amazing book. It is almost hard to believe one guy wrote and illustrated this. The dialogue is smart and the illustrations are very dark, detailed and deep. The town the story takes place is fictional based on 17th century France, but there are some historical basis used. It was a great idea to hide all the sinners underneath masks. And The Marquis is definitely not your normal everyday hero. The plot twist at the end makes the story worthwhile to slowly read through and not just try to make it to the finish as quick as possible. This is the first in a three book set. I can't wait for the others to come out.

Danse Macabre and Havanaise for Violin and Orchestra in Full Score

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Danse Macabre and Havanaise for Violin and Orchestra in Full Score
Camille Saint-Saens
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486441474

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Two of Saint-Saëns' most popular works appear in this affordable volume. First composed in song form, Danse Macabre was later rewritten as a symphonic poem about the dance of death. Havanaise is among the most challenging violin and orchestra pieces. Based on the Cuban dance.

Danse Macabre and Other Works for Solo Piano

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Wonderful for bookbinders.

Danse Macabre and Other Works for Solo Piano
Camille Saint-Saens
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486404099

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Splendid compilation features a variety of the composer's best piano works, including "Danse Macabre" (presented here in the brilliant arrangement by Liszt), "Allegro appassionato," "Album" (consisting of 6 pieces), "Rhapsodie d'Auvergne," "Theme and Variations," plus 6 etudes, 3 waltzes, and 6 etudes for left hand alone. Introduction. Reproduced from authoritative sources

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Wonderful for bookbinders........2007-07-28

1: The music is REALLY hard. Saint-Saens was not an easy man.
2: Franz Liszt isn't that great at transcribing this title piece.
3: Everything else is great though.

It hasn't happened yet, but I sense that the book is going to fall apart soon. So learn bookbinding and keep it in BETTER condition for cheap.

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Danse Macabre
Frederic Mullally
Manufacturer: London, England: Secker & Warburg, 1959
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GKUI1K

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Danse Macabre Opus 40 Poème symphonique

Manufacturer: Editions Durand
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000F7KOQ8

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Symphonic poem transcribed for solo piano by Liszt.

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