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Magical Creatures, a Weiser Books Collection a Digital Library of Fantastical Stories of Forgotten Lore Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection A digital library of forgotten and fantastic stories of the occult. AVAILABLE WHERE AVAILABLE The Vampyre: A Tale Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection John William Polidori and Varla Ventura One of the ghostly tales that emerged on the same stormy night that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born at a now famous gathering at Lord Byron’s home. The first vampire novel ever published in English, seventy years before Dracula. eISBN 978-1-61940-001-6 • $2.99 Category: Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Subcategory: Gothic, Horror E BOOKS ARE SOLD Buy now from Amazon The Mermaid of Druid Lake Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection The Mummy and Miss Nitocris Buy now from Barnes & Noble Charles Weathers Bump and Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection Varla Ventura George Chetwynd Griffith and An inland dwelling water nymph Varla Ventura coaxes two gentlemen into taking A misplaced mummy comes back to life. her for a joyride in the park in In this 1906 science fiction horror story this humorous and delightful that mixes Egyptian mythology, time 1906 Edwardian tale. travel, and past life regression, written by a science fiction/fantasy writer who eSBN 978-1-61940-000-9 • $2.99 helped define the genre. Category: Fiction/Occult and Supernatural Subcategory: Fairy Tales, Sea Stories, eISBN 978-1-61940-003-0 • $7.99 Legends and Mythology Category: Fiction/Horror Subcategories: Fantasy/Paranormal, Sci-fi General Buy now from Amazon Buy now from Amazon Buy now from Barnes & Noble Buy now from Barnes & Noble The Occult Powers of Goats and The Werewolf Other Welsh Tales Magical Creatures, Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection A Weiser Books Collection Wirt Sikes and Varla Ventura Eugene Field and Varla Ventrua Goblins, fairies, pooka, changelings, This classic tale of horror from gnomes, and elves are all lurking noted children’s author Eugene in this collection of Welsh folklore Field will have you howling at from nineteenth-century author the moon! Wirt Sikes, who served as US Ambassador to Wales. eISBN 978-1-61940-002-3 • $2.99 Category: Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal eSBN 978-1-61940-004-7 • $4.99 Subcategories: Fairy Tales, Horror Category: Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Subcategory: Fairy Tales, Folk Legends and Mythology, Magic, Occult and Supernatural Buy now from Amazon Buy now from Amazon Buy now from Barnes & Noble Buy now from Barnes & Noble Weiser Books www.redwheelweiser.com • 800.423.7087 Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection A digital library of forgotten and fantastic stories of the occult. AVAILABLE WHERE AVAILABLE Among the Mermaids Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection T. Crofton Croker and William Butler Yeats, Ed. by Varla Ventura From the story of T. Crofton Croker’s The Soul Cages, to a 19th century aquarium, this collection of stories about one of the most romanticized mythological creatures in history is introduced with fun facts about the fluid and the fair. eISBN 978-1-61940-011-5 • $2.99 Category: Fiction Subcategory: Fairy Tales, Sea Stories, Folk Tales, E Legends and Mythology BOOKS ARE SOLD It Moans on Land and Sea and Other Buy now from Amazon Taming the Pooka, Celtic Tales of Welsh Tales from the Spirit World the Trickster Fairy Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection Buy now from Barnes & Noble Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection Wirt Sikes and Varla Ventura T. Crofton Croker and William Butler The hills of Wales are filled with haunted Yeats, Ed. by Varla Ventura houses, séances, demons, and goblins in this delightful collection of the unseen The notorious shapeshifter and from nineteenth-century author Wirt trickster, Pooka, takes many forms Sikes, who served as US Ambassador to in this collection of tales from such Wales. notable writers as W. B. Yeats, T. Crofton Croker, and Douglas Hyde. eSBN 978-1-61940-010-8 • $3.99 Category: Fiction eISBN 978-1-61940-012-2 • $2.99 Subcategory: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends and Category: Fiction Mythology, Occult and Supernatural, Fantasy, Ghosts Subcategories: Folk Legends and Mythology, Fairy Tales, Celtic Buy now from Amazon Buy now from Amazon Buy now from Barnes & Noble Buy now from Barnes & Noble A Kidnapped Santa Claus Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection The Christmas Troll and Other Yuletide Stories L. 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With an introduction by writer Written in 1865, Sabine Baring- and collector of all things Gould, the man behind shows paranormal, Clint Marsh. his deep understanding of the half-man, half-beast. eSBN 978-1-61940-028-3 • $2.99 Category: Fiction eISBN 978-1-61940-029-0 • $2.99 Subcategory: Fairy Tales, Folklore, Fantasy, Category: Non-Fiction Short Stories Subcategories: Supernatural Buy now from Amazon Buy now from Amazon Buy now from Barnes & Noble Buy now from Barnes & Noble Weiser Books www.redwheelweiser.com • 800.423.7087 Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection A digital library of forgotten and fantastic stories of the occult. AVAILABLE WHERE EBOOKS ARE SOLD AVAILABLE The Goblins of Electricity Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection William Wirt Sikes and Varla Ventura William Wirt Sikes brings us another startling collection of lore from the fairy kingdom. 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