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Cain is the last novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago.The book was first published in 2009. [1] In an earlier novel, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Saramago retold the main events of the life of Jesus Christ, as narrated in the New Testament, presenting God as the villain.
Geoffrey Girard is an author of nonfiction, thrillers, historicals, and speculative fiction.. In 2013, Simon & Schuster simultaneously published Girard's techno-thriller novel Cain's Blood and an accompanying companion novel for teens; Project Cain. [3]
A "Mark of Cain" is featured in the TV series Supernatural (2005), and Cain appears as a character. [63] [64] Cain appears as the ultimate antagonist of the comic book series The Strange Talent of Luther Strode (2011). [65] In Darren Aronofsky's allegorical film Mother! (2017), the characters "oldest son" represent Cain and Abel. [66]
The character who supplies Cain with knowledge of death is Lucifer. In Act II, Lucifer leads Cain on a voyage to the "Abyss of Space" and shows him a catastrophic vision of the Earth's natural history, complete with spirits of extinct life forms like the mammoth. Cain returns to Earth in Act III, depressed by this vision of universal death.
Cain's appearance was based on that of then-young comics writer Len Wein (right), shown with his creation Swamp Thing.. In 1968, Cain was created to "host" the EC-style horror comic anthologies The House of Mystery (which had begun publishing in 1950).
Three of a Kind is a collection of three novellas by James M. Cain, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943. Each originally appeared as serials in magazines during the 1930s. [1] [2] [3] The collection includes Double Indemnity, first published in 1936 as a serial for Liberty magazine; [4] [5] Career in C Major, originally entitled "Two Can Sing" when it appeared in The American Magazine in 1938 ...
Cain was deeply gratified at the critical and commercial success of Double Indemnity, as well as the lead performances. Cain wrote to actor Barbara Stanwyck who plays Phyllis Nirdlinger [Phyllis Dietrichson in the film version] it is a very creepy sensation to see a character imagined by yourself step in front of your eyes exactly as you ...
Past All Dishonor is the perfectly distilled presentation of the predominant theme in Cain's writing: “the wish that comes true and the horrors it brings to the wishers.” [9] Despite this, Cain insisted on having the draft vetted for accuracy by specialists on many arcane topics related to California and Nevada history, including whether ...