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The hook effect refers to the prozone phenomenon, also known as antibody excess, or the postzone phenomenon, also known as antigen excess. It is an immunologic phenomenon whereby the effectiveness of antibodies to form immune complexes can be impaired when concentrations of an antibody or an antigen are very high.
It appears prominently (as "by hook and by crook") in the short stories "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway [6] and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving. [7] It was also used as the title of the 2001 film By Hook or by Crook directed by Silas Howard and Harry Dodge. It was also used as a lyric in the chorus of Radiohead ...
The Hook, or the Hookman, [1] is an urban legend about a killer with a pirate-like hook for a hand attacking a couple in a parked car. In many versions of the story, the killer is typically portrayed as a faceless, silhouetted old man wearing a raincoat and rain hat that conceals most of his features, especially his face.
Interactive storybook, a children's story packaged with animated graphics, sound or other interactive elements; Shirley Temple's Storybook, a U.S. TV series; The Jesus Storybook Bible, a children's Bible written by Sally Lloyd-Jones; The Little Endless Storybook, a picture book by Jill Thompson
A narrative hook (or just hook) is a literary technique in the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that they will keep on reading. The "opening" may consist of several paragraphs for a short story, or several pages for a novel, and may even be the opening sentence .
The Hook is a 1963 Korean War war film directed by George Seaton based on the 1957 novel L'Hameçon by Vahé Katcha. [2] The film's title comes from the translation of the title of the original novel rather than the Battle of the Hook. The film was shot off Santa Catalina Island, California.
The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella, [1] and was a finalist for the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction, [2] the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 2016, [3] the 2017 British Fantasy Award for best novella, [4] the 2017 Theodore Sturgeon Award, [5] the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novella, [6] and the 2017 World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction.
Then it took quite a while, maybe a year, back and forth. I eventually tied everything together. As much as it got tied together; there isn't a hell of a story line in MASH, just a succession of operations and techniques and humor. The only thing that holds it together is the characters and the familiarity that the reader comes to have with them."