Showing results for "The Parasite" in Literature & Fiction

From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes a vision of a decade in the future, where humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite — a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When...

A combat veteran leads a ragtag group of survivors in an all-out war against invading aliens! The world's cities have been destroyed by a ghastly holocaust from space. The few remaining souls eke out an existence in the ruins, ransacking skyscrapers for food and living in the city's sewers like vermin.

Austin Gilroy is a physiologist who prides himself on his skepticism towards the occult. However, his friend Professor Wilson, a firm believer in psychical powers, is determined to change his mind. Inviting Austin to his home for a demonstration, Wilson introduces him to the enigmatic Miss Penclosa, a psychic who challenges everything Austin thought he knew. As the demonstration unfolds, Austin finds himself grappling with unsettling doubts about reality‚especially when Miss Penclosas influence pushes him to the brink of harming his fiance. The experience leaves Austin questioning not only ...

The Tickslith world is about to be violently destroyed. Lacking enough room to go with them, the honorable males load their women aboard their one ship in hopes of saving their species. The extremely powerful, 200-mile-long vessel then travels the galaxy, delivering female love, peace, and tranquility to the several thousand worlds that have allowed them to land.

La jeune capitaine Marie Lesaux, fraîchement débarquée au sein de la brigade de protection de la famille de Clermont-Ferrand, est chargée de tester les capacités de son nouveau coéquipier, réputé infaillible. Un "policier" pas comme les autres puisqu'il s'agit d'une intelligence artificielle nommée Valmont.

In "The Parasite," Arthur C Clarke explores the dark and unsettling world of "mental illness" through the eyes of Roy Connolly. But Roy knows he isn't crazy, he has been possessed by Omega, a creature of the very distant future where humanity exists primarily as intellect with severely emaciated bodies. And what fun is that? The solution is to travel back in time to a more physical era

In the aftermath of the life-altering events that shook him to the core, Jack Bishop relocates to Sacramento, California, determined to uncover the truth behind his father's disappearance. His unique ability to perceive the lingering psychic remnants of both monsters and murder victims becomes his only guide in this relentless quest. Little does Jack know that an ancient and formidable psychic entity has been unleashed upon the city, threatening not just his new home, but the entire world.

Jerry and Stably engage in a fortnightly conversation about a book they have recently read.

The Parasite is an 1894 novelette by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Parasite makes use of a form of mind control similar to the mesmerism of the Victorian era; it works on some hosts but not others. The main character is a young man known as Austin Gilroy. He studies physiology and knows a professor who is studying the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclosa, who has a crippled leg and psychic powers. She is a friend of the Professor's wife.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most intriguing novella. Austin Gilroy is a scientist and is by nature sceptical of anything to do with the occult. So when his colleague, Professor Wilson, introduces him to the mysterious and sinister hypnotist, Miss Penclosa, he is inclined to view her as a fraud. But when Gilroy's fiancée is hypnotised and Miss Penclosa makes her do the unthinkable, Gilroy is forced to change his views.

I had no choice but to lift up the bed, and Becca aggressively grabbed our daughter to stop her from behaving wildly. She struggled to get out of her arms, and she succeeded when she sank her teeth into her mother’s shoulder. I ran immediately to the medicine cabinet. My wife was crying as she tried to lull our little Matthew back to sleep. He was awakened because of the loud ruckus in the house. With my youngest child and my wife in tears as I was patching up the wound on her shoulder, my heart was crushed while I was looking at the bite mark of my daughter.

Jacob Westergren, an expert in his field of study, gets paid to research the most sickening parasites known to man. But, even when he looks at the most appalling of the species, he does not see the intrusive ugliness that humanity does, he sees himself. He sees a vessel by which to purge himself of an amalgam of detestable emotions. Emboldened by promising experimentation, Jacob is anxious to unburden himself by sharing his emotional parasite, in physical form, with the rest of the world.

In this clever tale, two elderly Athenian brothers, Chremes and Demipho, are caught in a web of family intrigue and secret romances. Chremes, a wealthy man with a wife named Nausistrata, leads a double life on the island of Lemnos, where he secretly marries a poor woman and has a daughter, Phanium. As Phanium reaches her fifteenth year, the brothers decide to bring her to Athens for a marriage to Antipho, the son of Demipho. Join us for a delightful journey filled with wit, deception, and unexpected twists!

Twelve-year-old Sydney often looks out across the ocean, recalling the night in which the ship sank. He still tastes the salt water that stole his life over 150 years ago. Cane and Jo visit Dungeness, combining a family reunion with a house hunt. Not only do they discover two generations of secrets, they also unearth a local horror beneath the shingle beach. When the lives of Sydney and the couple entwine, the crop has other ideas about the true meaning of happily ever after. Surviving the harvest is the easy part.

At any given moment, the human body contains millions of parasites. This is the story of just one. A really, really nasty one. Benjamin Wilson was having a lousy month even before the stomach pains began. He was about to turn 40. One of his students had been shot while on a homicidal meat cleaver rampage. And, shortly after the funeral, Benjamin didn't feel so good.... Now, everything is changing. His body is being affected in some very unpleasant ways.

This last volume focuses on the development of the lives of the two parasite men.

Discovering a purpose can be a difficult and daunting undertaking, even for a parasitic entity doomed with a ceaseless hunger for flesh, bone, and suitable hosts.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN meets THE VEGETARIAN in this chilly and chilling epistolary novel of four characters locked in a frightening cycle of vengeance and comeuppance. Mira is a desperate young woman, hired by a wealthy single mother to tutor her lonesome son, Yuchan. But Mira is not who...

Some people deserve what’s coming to them, but this punishment...is beyond worse than hell itself. There’s some scum out there in this world, that desperately need to be scrubbed from this land. Lynch John and Tony will experience the treasure that is their stay at Paradise. Locked within Paradise, these three men will try to survive the night in this black, blood-oozing nightmare.