Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN : 9781840225327
Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings.This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghosts, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound.
Author : John J. Kohut
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780452281189
After the success of their Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest series, the unflappable veterans of the strange news beat -- John Kohut and Roland Sweet -- have come back to their readers with Strange Tails, a collection of true news events chronicling the bizarre, wacky, hilarious, and sometimes heartwarming behavior of animals. After reading more than three hundred unbelievable tales, readers will never look at animals -- let alone their pets -- in the same way again.
Author : David Romo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 166983543X
Pedro Reeves is an ordinary young boy growing up in the City of Los Angeles. As far as he can remember, strange things always seem to happen around him and the only luck he ever has is bad luck. His parents seem to be hiding something but he cannot figure out what it might be. When he tells his best friend about it, he is advised to never repeat it to anybody else. Pedro’s Father was in the military and disappeared many years ago without explanation. No one can explain to his family what actually happened or where he is. When Pedro discovers that his family’s home has been monitored ever since his father went missing, it is clear there is more to his father’s disappearance than he could have ever guessed. Years later, Pedro is approached by an old woman who tells him a strange tale about two warring alien worlds battling for possession of Earth. She says she knows the truth about his father but will only tell him if he agrees to join her in the alien’s war. In hopes of finding his father, Pedro agrees and soon finds himself in situations he never thought were even possible.
Author : Erica Schultz
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780960086900
A collection of three stories by Claire Connelly and Erica Schultz.
Author : Various
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473399971
These early works by various authors were originally published in the late 19th century and early 20th century and we are now republishing them with a brand new introduction as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Weird Tales of Weird Tails' contains a collection of short stories about supernatural felines, and includes 'The King of the Cats' by Thomas Lyttelton (1807), 'The Gray Cat' by Barry Pain (1901), 'Ancient Sorceries' by Algernon Blackwood (1908), and many more. Therianthropy – the metamorphosis of humans into animals – is one of literature's oldest themes, and the werecat appears in some form in the folklore of virtually every global culture. African legends are replete with tales of people morphing into lions or leopards; Asian folklore features the often malevolent figure of the weretiger; and in Europe, werecats are found in the writings of Ancient Greece, and were explicitly condemned as heretical creatures during the witch trials of the early Modern period. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant spiders, werewolves, lake monsters, or dinosaurs, the Cryptofiction Classics series offers a fantastic introduction to the world of weird creatures in fiction.
Author : Denver Michaels
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439677360
Denver Michaels is an author with a passion for cryptozoology, the paranormal, lost civilizations, ancient history and all things unexplained. The Virginia native has written more than ten books examining unexplained phenomena, including Haunted Shenandoah Valley, Giants: Men of Renown and Strange Tales from Virginia’s Mountains. Michaels travels the country full time with his wife and dog in an RV and is an avid outdoorsman. In his spare time, he enjoys sightseeing, investigating the unexplained and working on future books.
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0895810018
The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the first of 6 volumes.
Author : John Stevenson
Publisher : Brill Hotei
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Ghosts in art
ISBN : 9789004337374
Taisō Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) was fascinated by the supernatural, and some of his best work concerns ghosts, monsters, and charming animal transmutations. Yoshitoshi's strange tales presents two series (with full page illustrations) that focus on his depictions of the weird and magical world of the transformed. The first series is One Hundred Tales of Japan and China (Wakan hyaku monogatari, 1865) and it is based on a game in which people told short scary ghost tales in a darkened room, extinguishing a candle as each tale ended. New Forms of Thirty-six Strange Things (Shinken sanjūrokkaisen) of 1889-92 illustrates stories from Japan's rich heritage of legends in more serene and objective ways.
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0895810492
The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales.This is volume 5 of 6.
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0895810433
The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the second of 6 volumes.
