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I have also provided recommendations for horror animes as well, most of which have very decent mangas as well. However, for the sake of variety, I have left them off this particular list.

While on his way home from a class trip, the train that Teru and his class were riding violently crashes and is trapped in a tunnel under a mountain. It seems that the only other two people that are alive are Ako and Nobuo, two of his classmates. They attempt to dig themselves out of the bleak situations and stay alive. However, the lack of light, food, and the ever growing stench of the dead is driving one of them insane. With the sudden earthquakes that keep shuttering the tunnel, it suggests that the outside world is no safer than being trapped in a tunnel with an insane little boy.

Dragon Head is a head first dive into the psychological. At first, you think it is going to be a simple survival story, but then it becomes a deranged post apocalyptic adventure full of insane people and deadly landscapes. it is a great story that really makes you think about the psychology of people when the world has ended or when they are trapped in the dark. There is vivid imagery and it is quite the thought provoking story.

Middle aged teacher Aoshika is going out of her mind trying to figure out what happened last night. She swears she saw a young high school student brutally beaten and hit by a car, however the student Inugami is perfectly fine and sitting in her class. What Aoshika did not witness was Inugami transforming into a werewolf like beast and slaughtering all those thugs en masse.

This is probably my favorite manga on this list. I enjoy a good werewolf story, emphasis on the good, and Wolf Guy does deliver. It delivers with devastatingly beautiful art as well, which sometimes makes it hurt all the more as there are some very heart breaking scenes in this one. I enjoy Wolf Guy because it deviates from the typical tortured and brooding werewolf stereotype. Though inugami is fairly brooding, he has a very pleasing sense of humor.

After a strange earthquake, an elementary school completely disappears leaving only a black hole deep into the Earth. Police and parents believe that the students and staff of the school have all perished somehow. However, the school was actually transported into a barren wasteland. Seeing this, the school erupts in a panic. Sho Takamatsu and his friends attempt to find out what happened while trying to stay alive.

Drifting Classroom is probably one of the most engaging stories in a horror manga that there ever was. In this manga, you think you get used to one situation and then BAM the situation changes completely and the survival rates change as well. The author really gives you some great insight into the minds of both adults and children when put into utterly stressful situations. This is not a manga for the light hearted as there are quite a few scenes of graphic violence.

The small town of Kurozu-cho is cursed. It is not cursed by some being, demon, spirit, person, or what have you. It is cursed by a pattern--Uzumaki. Uzumaki is the name for the spiral pattern and it is all over this town. At first it is seen on inconsequential things like seashells or ferns. However, the spirals begin to mark people's bodies. This pattern is leading to a madness that is settling over the town. As the madness spreads the inhabitants of this small town are pulled deeper into a whirlpool in which there is no return.

Uzumaki is so utterly chilling and artful, it was even named one of the American Library Associations' Top Ten Graphic Novels for Teens in 2009. Uzumaki is kind of like the perfect bit of horror, keeping true to what makes Asian horror movies so much more chilling. It has very little violence and uses intense imagery and storytelling to create a chilling affair. Which is why is also spawned its own live action horror movie. Be prepared to be freaked out by all the spiral shaped human beings.

There is a sinister game being played around Japan referred to as 'Rabbit Doubt'. In this game you pretend to be a bunch of rabbits in a colony, however one rabbit is chosen to be the wolf and each night kills another rabbit. The rabbits must then decide who is the wolf before it is too late. Some kids choose to meet up and play this game in real life. For a group of kids, the do just that. However, whomever was chosen to be the wolf has taken it too seriously. they are killing for real. Can these kids discover the wolf before they all meet an unpleasant end?

Doubt is a great horror mystery with some really creepy rabbit heads to boot. This is a short manga, like Uzumaki and was really quite popular when it was released. what really makes this special is that it has more twists and turns than an M. Night Shyamalan movie. Some murder mysteries like this the murderer is completely obvious, however in Doubt they keep you utterly perplexed right up to the end. Doubt is kind of like reading a Saw movie as well, since there are some very creative deaths.

These are just a few of the best selected from my personal manga library. If you have been fortunate to see all of these or have a specific sort of manga in mind, leave a comment. I can give more suggestions if you want them!

Source: http://www.infobarrel.com/Manga_Recommendations_-_Good_Horror_Manga

Brief overview of some of the most extreme horror movies released during the 1960s & 1970s.

Blood Shack: H.G. Lewis invented the gore/splatter film with this 1963 $26,000 horror film. A madman is hired to cater a wedding, but in reality he’s preparing a cannibal feast in honor of the pagan goddess he worships.

Bloody Pit of Horror: A group of tourists in Europe make the mistake of stopping for the night at a castle in Europe owned by a madman who enjoys trying out the castle’s torture devices.

Night of the Living Dead: This film has influenced modern horror in countless ways. Besides creating the basic template for the modern zombie it also pushed the limits of onscreen violence.  

Man From Deep River: The first Italian Cannibal film. This film created the template for these movies.

The Last House On The Left:Rape/Revenge became the focus of a number of influential movies released during the early 70s. Deliverance and Straw Dogs were mainstream films that used this basic theme, but neither film was willing to go as far as Last House does in showing the true horror of it.

I Drink Your Blood: A Hippie Devil cult becomes infected with rabies and go on a killing spree. An effective variant on Night of the Living Dead.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Tobe Hooper created one of the most effective horror films ever made. Leatherface is the first modern icon of the Horror Genre.

Thriller: A Cruel Picture: A young girl is molested in a park and becomes mute. Years later she becomes the captive of a pimp who hooks her on heroin and forces her to be a hooker. The pimp gouges out her eye with a scalpel and she decides to get her revenge. This film influence the look of The Bride in Quentin Tarantino Kill Bill films.

Bloodsucking Freaks: This is one of the most over the top films released during the 1970s. An insane theatre owner tortures and murders people onstage in front of audiences who believe it is all just an act. Influenced by the works of H.G. Lewis (Wizard of Gore shares a similar basic premise, but isn’t as effective).

I Sit On Your Grave: A woman is raped by four men in the woods and gets her revenge.

Ilsa She Wolf of the SS: Ilsa is head of a Nazi POW camp during WW2 and performs medical experiments on her prisoners.

Source: http://cinemaroll.com/horror/extreme-horror-films-of-the-60s-70s/

The longest novel ever written is not Leo Tolstoy’s much talked about War and Peace, and neither is it Victor Hugo’s equally long Les Miserables that ably covered the Paris Uprising. The onus must fall on little known semi-autobiographical novel Zettels Traum written by German author and translator Arno Schmidt and completed in 1970. Find out why.

No, its not Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace

Forget Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace which took me more than a fortnight to read and finish, the world’s longest novel is arguably Zettels Traum, a million-word tome written in German by author and translator Arno Schmidt. This big book was completed in 1970 after seven years of patient authorship and covers the lives of Daniel Pagenstecher, visiting translators Paul Jacobi and his wife Wilma, and their teenage daughter Franziska.

Zettels Traum is semi-autobiographical

The novel is semi-autobiographical and concerns the problems the author must have faced when translating American author Edgar Allan Poe from English to German. It is set in the Lüneberg Heath of northeastern Lower Saxony in northern Germany in 1968 and was inspired by Finnegan’s Wake, a novel by James Joyce.

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How long is the novel?

Like aforementioned, the novel contains more than 1,000,000 German words published in folio format covering an amazing length of 1334 pages. Compare this amazing length with the Tolstoyan War and Peace’s 560,000 words or Victor Hugo’s gigantic Les Miserables which manages about 513,000 words in French. Left out are cyclical novels that were written for different periods of time and in separate volumes such as Marcel Proust’s A la recherché du temps perdu which covers seven volumes and more than 1,500,000 words, Jules Romains’ Les Hommes de Bonne Volonté in 27 volumes and more than 2,000,000 words and Artamene, a 10 book novel written by Madeleine and Georges de Scudéry.

About the author Arno Schmidt

Arno Schmidt was a German author and translator born in January 1914 in Hamburg. He was the son of a police constable best known for his attempt to translate the popular Edgar Allan Poe into German. Zettels Traum is his best known fictional work, written in the once popular stream of consciousness whose proponents included James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and the Brontes among other authors of the time. He died on the 3rd of June 1979.

Source: http://bookstove.com/book-talk/the-worlds-longest-novel/

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If you want to get real creative, you can get a special box to be a treasure chest - and you can have your little "pirates" hunt for the list of needed treasures. This might be a way to get the kids interested if they need more than just nature - add your imagination !
You can take this list along with you and have them hunt for all these items that you can find in nature (or campground) - It is great to introduce the kids to nature that is all around them :O) It is something that a lot of kids that live in more urban areas NEVER see.
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Jakarta - Di H-3 Lebaran, terminal menjadi salah satu tempat konsentrasi massa yang akan mudik. Namun, Jokowi tak berniat blusukan ke terminal bus di Jakarta. Kenapa?

"Nanti kalau saya yang lakukan malah lebih macet. Hehe ," terang Gubernur DKI, Joko Widodo di Pekojan, Tambora, Jakarta Barat, Senin (5/8/2013).

Guyonan tersebut dilontarkannya saat ditanya wartawan kapan ia akan blusukan ke terminal atau stasiun KRL di Jakarta. Menurutnya, peninjauan terminal-terminal sudah menjadi domain Dinas Perhubungan, Jakarta. Sehingga tidak perlu ia turun langsung

"Ya nggak lah itu sudah dilakukan oleh Dishub," pungkasnya.

Saat ini kepadatan warga Jakarta beralih ke terminal, stasiun KRL, pelabuhan dan bandara. Kondisi kota Jakarta sendiri cenderung lengang karena kebanyakan di antara warga sudah mulai mudik lebaran.


Sebagian umat muslim di beberapa daerah hari ini sudah merayakan Idul Fitri. Siapa saja mereka? Nantikan liputannya di Reportase Sore pukul 15.00 WIB Hanya diTrans TV

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Source: http://news.detik.com/read/2013/08/05/171844/2324719/10/tak-blusukan-ke-terminal-jokowi-nanti-malah-lebih-macet

Jakarta - Tahun ini merupakan yang pertama kali bagi Joko Widodo (jokowi) berlebaran dengan status sebagai Gubernur DKI Jakarta. Di salat Id pertamanya sebagai gubernur, Jokowi akan menemani Presiden SBY di Masjid Istiqlal.

"Pak Gubernur salat Id di Istiqlal sama presiden," ujar Kepala Biro Kepala Daerah dan Kerjasama Luar Negeri Heru Budi Hartono saat dihubungi wartawan, Selasa (6/8/2013).

Usai salat Id, mantan Wali Kota Solo ini akan menyambangi Balaikota DKI untuk bersilaturrahmi dengan pegawai Pemprov DKI.

"Ke Balkot sapa yang salat Id di Balkot, ada pejabat, masyarakat yang solat," kata Heru.

Heru menegaskan, Gubernur DKI ini tidak akan mengadakan kegiatan open house lebaran di rumahnya. Jokowi akan menyapa langsung warganya dari kampung ke kampung.

"Nggak akan ada open house," kata Heru.

Tak hanya itu, Jokowi juga akan berkunjung ke tempat-tempat keramaian atau wisata untuk berlebaran dengan warga DKI.

"Pak Gubernur akan ke Pademangan Timur, Cipinang, Jagakarsa, Daan Mogot, Tanah Tinggi. Bapak ke lokasi-lokasi yang ada makanan prasmanan, datang jalan lagi. Santai ngeriung sama masyarakat," jelas Heru.



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Source: http://news.detik.com/read/2013/08/06/114116/2324939/10/jokowi-tak-jadi-gelar-open-house-lebaran

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After a successful hunt, the brown bear is brought back to the base camp for further processing.











The next morning, pictures are taken and the skinning begins. The hunter would like to keep the pelt for a rug.



























The bear skull needs to be stripped of all flesh, so it can be preserved as a trophy.











The bear pelt is salted and air-dried to prepare it for shipping to a taxidermist.










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