In this book, Alan Krell investigates the place barbed wire holds in the social imagination.

"It's a story of buried secrets that can torture a man for life."--Back cover.

From the coal mines of West Virginia to the snowy slopes of the Rocky Mountains, this fast paced story follows the twists and turns that are encountered by three young survivors determined to avenge the deaths of their loved ones. Blinded by the choking storms of the prairie dust bowl, the youngsters track the elusive dust devils through hell and high water. The Devil's Rope has twists and turns that will leave your stomach knotted. The three unlikely characters that hunt the elusive serial killers will amaze you with their tenacity and true grit. Despite the gravity of the situations that unfold, the young hunters of the dust devils will steal your heart with their zest for life and the interactions between each other and the multitude of characters they meet along the trail.

This is a complete English translation of a Renaissance exorcist's manual. It is a concise history of demonology and contains accounts of seven exorcisms as well as Menghi's manual. Paxia's commentary explains what the signs of demonic possession are and who are the most vulnerable. Paxia also looks at Menghi's life in detail, including how he exorcised people and what objects he used during the ceremony.

The nuns of St Ursula's Convent, led by the Prioress, Sister Jeanne, accused Urbain Grandier, Vicar of Loudon, of sorcery. He was tried, tortured and burned. On this baldly terrible foundation, Whiting has built a powerful, complex play, interweaving the personal dilemmas of Jeanne and Grandier with the political necessities of the time. Although it is set between 1623-34, essentially it is no more a period play than Miller's The Crucible.6 women, 13 men