Showing results for "Lunatic" in Literature & Fiction

Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery - and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.

Welcome to Wellard Asylum, where the medical staff are as insane as the patients. Dr. Alexsander Martin is a monster. He’s bad enough, but the moment Raven Bonetti lays eyes on Bianca, it’s game over. With two madmen obsessed with her, there’s nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of . . . Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic...

I deal with highs and lows, but somehow, I end up making the best of it. My family disowned me, but family is the reason why I’m in Vegas. Even with my inability to think straight, I end up being in charge of a bunch of runaway mental patients. Hence, The Asylum. A sanctuary for lost causes. Where crazy can roam free, and compulsions can be let loose. My nephew says as long as it stays at The Asylum, we won’t have problems. What fun would it be if problems didn’t exist? And my problem is in the shape of a dancer, twirling on the front lawn in the middle of the night.

Brian Bedford's hugely successful one-man show is both an actor's celebration of Shakespeare and an act of Shakespearean scholarship. Bedford explores the emotion and psychology behind Shakespeare the man as well as Shakespeare the playwright.

Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. Solstice and Cudweed are appalled to find their father has appointed a new school master. But things get even worse when the grumpy, viciously mean teacher...

鎌倉は七里ガ浜に散歩に出かけた帰り、海岸づたいの富士山の見える遊歩道の木陰のベンチに休みながら、その日もわたし(比呂)は、喜多川家で見聞した話を先生に語った。

比呂は自ら提案して、京都のお屋敷で見聞したことを、拝崎氏に語って聞かせることを日課とする。

わたし(比呂)は、筝の師匠、倉田慶介との仲を引き裂いたと誤解され、斐名子より解雇を申し渡される。

わたし(比呂)の話は続きます。

わたし(比呂)の話は続きます。

鎌倉を去る前に、一人、江ノ電ににのって"長谷"まで出かけたわたしは、通りで景月院(拝崎夫人の墓のある寺)で見習いとして働いている娘と出会います。

わたし(比呂)の話は続きます。従叔母さんの牧子様から、借用書がすべて偽物であったこと、英田恵里衣の入れ知恵で行ったと告白されたわたしは、英田氏の事務所に出向きます。

先生とこれ以上、関係が深まることを恐れたわたし(比呂)は、話の続きをノートに書いて、先生に渡すこととします。

わたし(比呂)の話は続く。長女の斐名子が、蓼科に出かけている折りに、喜多川家の前のお手伝いのマリーさんがたずねてきたこと。その日、妹の珠江、マリーさんと三人で花火大会に出かけたこと。

遠野比呂は、単身、出向いた東京の地下街で、作家、拝崎薫と出会う。

先生と、仮粧坂(けわいざか)切通し(きりどおし)に出かけ、たどりついたのは、景(けい)月院(げついん)という尼寺でした。そこで神谷(かみや)保(ほう)月(げつ)という尼様を紹介されます。

神谷海塔氏より、拝崎希美夫人の悲しい過去を告白されたわたしは、ある疑問を抱いて、拝崎夫妻のかつての住まいである鎌倉山の邸宅に出向きます。そこで、夫人の悲しい過去にまつわるさらなる事実が判明します。

Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts...

Mary Pengilly recounts her harrowing experience as an inmate in a Lunatic Asylum, a circumstance orchestrated by her own sons. Her diary, the very essence of this book, paints a vivid picture of the brutal conditions and inhumane treatment she endured under the supervision of the asylums nurses. After her release, Mary bravely takes matters into her own hands, determined to expose the shocking realities of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum to the world.