The Lost World(失落的世界),《失落的世界》是柯南·道尔的一部长篇科幻小说,讲述了南美洲亚马逊河流域中一块与世隔绝的高原,由于很久以前的一次火山爆发,使它被四周坚硬的峭壁围住,从而被孤立起来,使许多在地球上其它地方早已绝迹的生物存活下。 19世纪与20世纪之
and the widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent. Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of the evening
vampire吸血鬼 a corpse supposed, in European folklore, to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth; a small bat that feeds on the blood of mammals ...
F.W. Murnau’s shameless rip-off of Bram Stoker’s Dracula does away with the sensuality that many associate with the undead monster, revealing the vampire to be a sad and rat-like creature, tormented by isolation and completely wrong for the modern world. Murnau seems to have a queasy ...
The wind became a tempest, the woods roared and creaked all round him. There came a crash. A tree fell right across the road just behind him. “Quiet, Destrier, quiet!” said Caspian, patting his horse’s neck; but he was trembling himself and knew that he had escaped death by an ...
The new creature intruded.When I tried to put it out it shed water out of the holes it looks with, and wiped it away with the back of its paws, and made a noise such as some of the other animals make when they are in distress.I wish it would not talk;it is always talking.That...
"Exactly. Of course I have other reasons for thinking so—dozens of exiguous threads which lead vaguely up towards the centre of the web where the poisonous, motionless creature is lurking. I only mention the Greuze because it brings the matter within the range of your own observation." "...
Our protagonist Jess is deeply flawed and unsure of herself, still feeling raw from the pain of losing her estranged father whom she’s never forgiven for abandoning her. The story’s themes hit hard when you realize the monster chasing her is more than a creature of folklore. There’s ...
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alert for still more tracks or small scurrying forms. There was no sign of the creature anywhere and somewhat shaken, she finally decided to head back home. She found this place way too creepy and disturbing for her tastes and wished only to return to the crowded yet familiar suburban apartm...