enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Locations in His Dark Materials - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locations_in_His_Dark...

    The city is plagued by ghostly beings called Spectres. Spectres are invisible to pre-adolescents, but once individuals are old enough to see them, the Spectres eat away their dæmons, leaving them zombie-like and lifeless. Hence, the city is entirely devoid of adults, and populated only by small gangs of children.

  3. Races and creatures in His Dark Materials - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Races_and_creatures_in_His...

    Spectres of Indifference, commonly shortened to Spectres are beings of spirit escaped from the void between universes. Most commonly, a Spectre is created from each new window between worlds opened by the Subtle Knife. They appear in the second and third volumes of the trilogy The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Before such openings, there ...

  4. List of works influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_influenced...

    The game, set in post-apocalyptic Boston, Massachusetts, features a location named "Pickman's Gallery" and an associated side-quest, inspired by "Pickman's Model". Another location in the game called Dunwich Borers references the Dunwich Building in Fallout 3. Identity V: NetEase Games: 2018 Three hunters from the game come from Cthulhu Mythos.

  5. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_elements...

    It can be combined with glowing mushrooms to make Shroomite, a blue fungi-themed version of the same metal used in ranged weapons and armor, or with ectoplasm to create Spectre Bars, a glowing ghost-themed metal used in various magical weapons and mage armor. It replenishes itself over time by 'growing' into nearby materials. Chronoton (or ...

  6. Path of Exile - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_of_Exile

    Path of Exile (full release) 23 October 2013 In October 2013, Path of Exile officially launched leaving what had been Open Beta, the launch was an expansion that changed the shape of the game. Originally Open Beta version 0.10.0 in January 2013 marked the point where Path of Exile was opened to the public as a free-to-play game.

  7. Edgar Allan Poe in television and film - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe_in...

    In the 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as subsequent film and stage adaptations, the title character appears disguised as The Red Death at a ball.; In Chapter 4 of the 1940 movie serial Drums of Fu Manchu, "The Pendulum of Doom", the hero Allan Parker is trapped in a "Pit and the Pendulum" peril (Fu Manchu actually states that the Poe story inspired this torture device).

  8. List of fictional islands - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_islands

    See also References A The Abarat: 25 islands in an archipelago, one for each hour and one for all the hours, from the series The Books of Abarat by Clive Barker Absolom: a prison island in the movie Escape from Absolom Acidophilus: an island in Greece appearing in the adventure game Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" Aepyornis Island: an atoll near Madagascar, in H. G. Wells' story by that name Al Amarja ...

  9. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_by_Edgar_Allan_Poe

    First, in the 1831 collection Poems of Edgar A. Poe, it appeared with 74 lines as "Irene." It was 60 lines when it was printed in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on May 22, 1841. Poe considered it one of his best compositions, according to a note he sent to fellow author James Russell Lowell in 1844. Like many of Poe's works, the poem focuses ...