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Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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Erymanthian Boar

Literature; General literature

A gigantic boar which Heracles was sent to retrieve as one of his labours.

Necronomicon

Literature; General literature

A fictional book existing in the Lovecraft canon. It was written by "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, who published it some time before his death in 738. The book is said to ...

edition

Literature; General literature

A particular form or version of a published text.

Hermann Hesse

Literature; General literature

Hermann Hesse(1877-1962)-german poet,novelist and painter,who has explored in his works the duality of spirit and individual's spiritual search outside restrictions of the ...

black comedy

Literature; General literature

A sub-genre of humor that uses cruelty or terrible situations to make the reader or viewer laugh, sometimes uncomfortably. Some Social-Darwinist works (Frank Norris' best known ...

matte shot

Literature; General literature

The end shot of the 1968 Planet of the Apes provides a perfect example. When Taylor falls to his knees in front of the Statue of Liberty, our actors were (I'm fairly certain) ...

ghoul

Literature; General literature

A monster from Arabian folklore (a type of djinn) that lives in the wilderness, preying on travelers. It also raids graveyards for corpses. It is a shapeshifter, but it is ...