A mysterious book that comes to light to reveal all the secrets that are hidden in the curse of the holders of the Sanpaku eyes. What is the curse of the Sanpaku eyes? The legend originates thousands of years ago in the Far East. According to the popular story, the inhabitants of Japan and China believed that a strange eye condition was the indicator of a life marked by tragedy and an irremediable curse, great characters in history were bearers of this sign. Lady Diana, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe are personalities with this characteristic. In this book we reveal all the secrets of the Sanpaku, from premonitory dreams, smells, signs of death, face reading, graphology, legends, myths and many more elements of analysis that will take you by the hand to learn everything related to the Sanpaku. . Unique in its kind, it will help you give meaning to all this Sanpaku phenomenon and where in this Sanpaku Book Series we will go deeper and address more topics in each book.

(Applause Books). From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied and helped to engender the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS! , a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays plays that he starred in and directed as well. While Ludlam's work has become increasingly popular at regional theatres, on college campuses, and on stages throughout the world, his gender-bending theories and wide-ranging cultural impact have reached far beyond Bette Midler, the original cast members of Saturday Night Live and the countless other artists he influenced during his abbreviated lifetime. Like his early plays, Ludlam's life was rife with the sex, drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers RIDICULOUS! recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year "David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius ... As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he was both guru and grandmaster, this book is informed and passionate." Mel Gussow, The New York Times "A fascinating portrait of an authentic stage genius and the New York avant-garde scene in which he toiled with such demented and dedicated diligence." Playbill "The phenom who inspired everyone from Bette Midler and Madeline Kahn to Tony Kushner and Paul Rudnick was no box of chocolates which, as reading experiences go, makes his story all the sweeter." Vanity Fair "This is one helluva piece of work." Marilyn Stasio, Variety.com

It is 1780 in the Buford battlefield. After British soldiers find a boy wounded and dying, they do not provide him with peace. Urged on by the malevolent spirit, the British torture the boy, leaving him to lie unnoticed and unburied for years. His only monument will be the barn that is erected one day over his bonesthe future haunt of the demon known as Lerajie. Over two hundred years later, Karen Hedrick finds her young daughter lying in shock on her barn floor and a strange, green-clad figure seemingly standing in the corner. After she scoops her daughter up and flees, the sheriffs department begins investigating. As a complex puzzle unfolds without a clue in sight, Karens husband suddenly turns up dead in a parking lot with a pair of binoculars around his neck and a deceased dog in the trunk of his car. After the investigation leads to nowhere, a university research team eventually begins investigating supernatural occurrences in the area. But what no one knows is that a determined demon has claimed the former battlefield as his home and is using the innocent to perpetuate evil. In this riveting tale, a demon brought to life during the Revolutionary War reigns terror on a modern community some two hundred years later.

Marcine is fascinated with the Japanese theory of Sanpaku. It states that seeing the white around the iris of one’s eyes is a bad omen. But it’s everywhere Marcine looks—her grandmother has it, some of her classmates at Catholic school have it, JFK had it . . . even Marcine might suffer from this odd condition. It’s believed that eating a strict macrobiotic diet and meditating is supposed to help, but no matter how much Marcine wants it to, these practices can’t save her grandmother, or bring back pop star Selena, or make her life at school any easier . . .! From critically acclaimed cartoonist Kate Gavino (Last Night’s Reading), Sanpaku gives voice to the insecurities that abound in teens of all cultures.

Cutie-pie Jess has regained her previously sealed memories, and oh my, she seems to be a little—no, very smitten with Mister Pig! Of course, there’s always the chance it’s just his social debuff as an otaku leading him to think so. Don’t worry—he knows the rules super well: he mustn’t overstep his boundaries. Luckily, there are other urgent matters he can focus on! Together with Jess and her fiancé-on-paper Shravis, Mister Pig hatches a secret plan that will decide the fates of the Liberators and every Yethma in Mesteria. A long-lost member of the royal family is the key to strengthening the fragile alliance between the Liberators and the royal court, so securing his cooperation is imperative. And strangely enough, Naut’s perverted dog Rossi, who loves to sniff girls’ legs, might be their best lead!

Guided by Jack Vessalius, the man from Alice's memories, Oz wanders back into the world of lost memories in search of Alice. There, he stumbles upon the devastating tragedy of Sablier, the century-old disaster which sent the old capital into the Abyss, an incident of which no one has any recollection...except Alice, who was there?! When Oz discovers the truth of the memories Alice so desperately wants to forget, the powers of the B-Rabbit will spiral out of control and threaten the lives of all who are trapped within the dreamlike dimension, including Alice herself...