Crossword clues for catacombs
catacombs
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n. (plural of catacomb English)
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Catacombs are human-made subterranean passageways for religious practice. Any chamber used as a burial place is a catacomb, although the word is most commonly associated with the Roman Empire.
Catacombs is a 2007 horror film starring singer Pink (Alecia Moore) and Shannyn Sossamon. Set in the Paris Catacombs it is about a young woman trying to find her way out while being pursued by a killer. It is the first original movie from FEARnet, collaborating with Lions Gate Entertainment. The film's soundtrack was produced by Yoshiki Hayashi and Jonathon Pratt and was released on October 7, 2007. A big part of the movie was shot in Bucharest (Romania).
Catacombs is a doom metal solo project of Xathagorra Mlandroth. Catacombs' music appears to be deeply inspired by Lovecraftian horror and Cthulhu Mythos.
Catacombs are ancient underground passageways or subterranean cemeteries.
Catacombs may also refer to:
- Catacomb culture, the Bronze Age culture
- Catacomb (video game)
- Catacomb 3-D video game
- Catacombs (1965 film), a British film
- Catacombs (1988 film)
- Catacombs (2007 film)
- Catacombs (band), American doom metal project
- Catacombs (album), the fourth full-length album by Cass McCombs
- "Catacomb", a song by Stereophonics on their 2013 album Graffiti on the Train
- The Catacombs (film), a 1940 Czech film
- Catacombs (sex club), a gay club located in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s.
'Catacombs' is the fourth full-length album by Cass McCombs released on June 1, 2009 in the UK, and on July 7 in North America via Domino Records. The first single, " Dreams Come True Girl", was released on May 25, 2009. The single also features Academy Award-nominee Karen Black as backing vocals. The album was voted one of the 50 greatest albums of 2009 by Pitchfork Media. Music videos have been released for the songs " Dreams-Come-True-Girl", "You Saved My Life", and "The Executioner's Song".
Catacombs is a 1965 British horror film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Gary Merrill, Georgina Cookson and Jane Merrow.
Catacombs is a 1988 horror film about a haunted monastery. The film is produced for Empire Pictures, directed by David Schmoeller and stars Tim Van Patten.
The Catacombs was a gay and lesbian s/m fisting club in the South of Market area of San Francisco, which operated from 1975 to 1981, and reopened at another location from 1982 to 1984. The founder and owner was Steve McEachern. The location was semi-secret and admission was by referral only. Among the patrons was Patrick Califia. It has been exhaustively described by sexual anthropologist Gayle Rubin, who calls it "exemplary" in its attempts to deal with the AIDS crisis which would eventually lead to its closure. Patrick Moore devotes a chapter to it in his Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality. Sex educator Carol Queen called it "the place to be seen and to play at during the 1980s."
Usage examples of "catacombs".
She told him about the catacombs, and her plans for a rolling retreat to draw the enemy to a desired location.
In the darkness of the catacombs, amidst the chaos of a rolling retreat, the Daroth may not be able to read minds.
The white wall behind him had been stripped of paintings, and Ozhobar had sketched out a map of the catacombs on the bare plaster.
Lanterns have been placed around the catacombs, so that you will be able to see your targets.
The smell of lantern oil hung heavily in the still air of the catacombs, and the warriors crouched in nervous silence, listening to the steady thudding sound of Daroth hammers and pick-axes coming ever closer.
Lazarus lived here, within the catacombs, in a quaint room Friar Ivan had appointed for him, replete with a rudely fashioned bed and thick blankets.
Frequently Ivan would summon Migual and Thateus to the catacombs to work alongside Lazarus and, as Lazarus had forever been confined to the catacombs, doing so brought Ivan as much if not more joy than it did Lazarus.
And for Ivan, when the ghost children were together and Lazarus burst into laughter - rare enough laughter, there in the catacombs - that the unexpected and memorable cackle invariably served to still his troubled soul.
He threw back his shoulders and clasped his hands behind his back like a proud, condemned prisoner bound for a march into Hell, and he descended deeper into the catacombs, the darkness swallowing him.
He liked the catacombs even less than he liked the sunlit plain, but these tunnels were the only choice save death.
There were no frescoes in this portion of the catacombs, but prayers and eight-pointed stars scratched in the rock showed that the poor were as pious as their betters.
The whole valley and delta of the Nile, from the Catacombs to the sea, was covered with temples, palaces, tombs, pyramids, and pillars.
Jera whispered, peering impatiently into the catacombs for some sign of the chamberlain.
From the fragments of conversation, it appeared that they were wary about entering the catacombs, facing the dread magic of the mysterious stranger.
In actuality, the senseless creatures were packed in catacombs where they sat on rough stone slabs and were fed and exercised once a day.