Step into a world of mystery and imagination with this collection of folklore and tales of cryptids from around the globe, featuring legendary creatures like Bigfoot, the chupacabra, the Loch Ness Monster, and more.From hidden water dwellers and winged beasts to mischievous shape-shifters, discover the creatures and legends behind some of the world’s most unusual folktales, from North America to Japan, Scandinavia, and beyond. Learn about cryptids—mysterious creatu...

An Emmy Award-winning writer for The Colbert Report follows in the (big) footsteps of Bigfoot: I Not Dead.Monsters have it tough. Besides being deeply misunderstood, they suffer from very real problems: Mummies have body image issues, Godzilla is going through an existential crisis, and creatures from the black lagoon face discrimination from creatures from the white lagoon. At heart, these monsters are human; after all, you are what you eat. Quir...

For too long the daily problems of monsters have been ignored. Few people take the time to understand the secret lives of those monsters we know so well from popular culture. From Godzilla's parental woes, the witch worried about the calories contained in Hansel and Gretel to Big Foot's problems with Megan Fox, Frank Lesser reveals just how human monsters can be.How do you heal a broken heart when you are undead?How does a Yeti go about getting an editorial job at Vogue

The main focus is on a novel analysis, a first-time exposure of the true causes and a sensational immediate solution (which I rightly call a "trick") to our economic, monetary and financial problems, a solution that can not only be implemented in a sensationally short time, but is also made sustainable and lasting by accompanying measures. This sustainability of the solution, which goes hand in hand with the immediate effect of the trick, does not apply to the commercial banks, because the...

From the multimillion copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction.***When eighteen-year-old Dot meets Sol, she feels that love has arrived at last. Solomon Arbuthnott is a man who can bring colour and warmth to her drab life in sixties London – and what's more, he is a young, handsome soldier with excellent prospects. Someone who wants to give her everything she has dream...

"Angels: A book for self realization through angels and your personal guides-" is a quick-read."Synchronicity: Coincidence, Happening at the Same Time, Simultaneous" is a quick-read. Your free will is important, but it can also block help from your angels and guides. Unless you are totally aware of what is in your best interest, you could take too many wrong turns and end up in the wrong place; something that would not happen if you were in touch with your angels and guides-more im...

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, which is why it makes good vampire sense to prey on tourists and leave the locals alone. This Channeling Morpheus short takes place after story #10, Elixir, and contains series spoilers. (short story)

Horror, history, science, mystery . . . and eerily twisted tales. Follow Uncle John into a world so frighteningly funny it could only come from the Bathroom Readers Institute.What do you get when you cross a classic scary story such as “The Tell-tale Heart” with Uncle John’s trademark sense of humor? You get “The Tell-tale Fart” (Pee-uw!). And that’s just one of many twisted classic and original tales of humor and horror you’ll find inside The Haunted ...

A celebration of girls and women in a three part poetry collection that is powerful, hopeful, authentic, and universal.

The December 2012 issue of the Hugo Award-winning and World Fantasy Award-nominated magazine, Clarkesworld.This issue features the following stories: "Your Final Apocalypse" by Sandra McDonald, "The Wisdom of Ants" by Thoraiya Dyer and "Sweet Subtleties by Lisa L Hannett. Non-fiction includes an interview with Todd Lockwood, an article on Jane C. Loudon’s The Mummy! and Victorian Science Fiction by S. J. Chambers, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham and an editorial b...

A fiendish lifestyle guide for today's discerning evil-doers from the author of the perilously popular How to Be a Villain.All those aspiring ne'er-do-wells who cackled all the way to the cash register with the Neil Zawacki's How to Be a Villain are ready to embrace the finer points of the evil life with The Villain's Guide to Better Living. It covers all the topics contemporary villains care about, such as: Home d cor—Gothic? Apocalyptic?...

A bittersweet box of comedy bon-bons by the sometimes angry, but always hilarious A.J. Axline. If comedy is a banquet, then this collection is a surreal dream diner filled with tasty bite-sized treats like, "My uncle was a lot like Galileo: reviled by the church, and under house arrest." The perfect book for reading in-between meals!