Algernon Blackwood
1) Wendigo
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A hunting trip in the Canadian wilderness takes a bad turn when one of the hunting party disappears. Young Simpson tracks the missing hunter to find his tracks mysteriously change. They now look like the supernatural being of native lore--the Wendigo! The hunters find Dfago but it may be too late for him. This horrifying tale is now a striking graphic novel adaptation. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Graphic...
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Creators: Half stories for dog-lovers, half for cat-lovers. Original stories and poems by Ray Bradbury, P.G. Wodehouse, Algernon Blackwood, Robert E. Howard, Franz Kafka, Saki, Edward Lear, Joe R. Lansdale, Carl Sandburg, Joseph Jacobs, H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Robert J, Burdette, James Anthony Froude, O. Henry, Oliver Goldsmith, John Lehman. Adaptations by Alex Burrows, Antonella Caputo, Trina Robbins, Tom Pomplun. Edited by Tom Pomplun and...
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The darkness that endures beneath the earth . . . the disquiet that lingers in the woodland surrounding a forgotten path . . . those ancient traditions and practices that still cling to standing stone circles, earthworks, and abandoned buildings; elaborate rituals that invoke elder gods or nature deities; the restless spirits and legendary creatures that remain connected to a place or object, or exist in deep wells and lonely pools of water, waiting...
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In Haunted Tales, the reader will enjoy discovering masterpieces like Algernon Blackwood's terrifying "The Kit-Bag," Oscar Wilde's delightful "The Canterville Ghost," and F. Marion Crawford's horrific "The Screaming Skull," as well as lesser-known gems by some of literature's greatest voices, including Virginia Woolf's "A Haunted House," H. G. Wells's "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost," and Rudyard Kipling's "They." Haunted Tales also resurrects...
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32 stories featuring the frightening creature--the vampire. Here, in all their horror and all their glory, are the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring. Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered for the kill and for the chill, brought frighteningly to life by Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles...