Be Very Afraid

An anthology of the most chilling urban legends of all time collected by the maestro himself. Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always happen to a friend of a friend. For the first time, Professor Jan Harold Brunvand, "who has achieved almost legendary status" (Choice), has collected the creepiest, most terrifying urban legends, many that have spooked you since your childhood and others that you believe really did occur—even if it was one town over to some poor hapless coed who left a party early only to be followed by a man who just got loose from a mental hospital. From the classic hook-man story told around many a campfire to "Saved by a Cell Phone," these spine-tingling urban legends will give you goose bumps, even when you know they can't be true. Still, you'll continue to check the backseat of your car at gas stations and look under your bed at night before praying for sleep.

Examines the human response to existential threats--once a matter for theology, but now looming before us in multiple forms. Nuclear weapons, pandemics, global warming: each threatens to destroy the planet, or at least to annihilate our species. Freud, Wuthnow notes, famously taught that the standard psychological response to an overwhelming danger is denial. In fact, Wuthnow argues, the opposite is true: we seek ways of positively meeting the threat, of doing something--anything--even if it's wasteful and time-consuming. It would be one thing if our responses were merely pointless, Wuthnow observes, but they can actually be harmful.--From publisher description.

When the sun goes down, the Dark stretches out. The Dark can be scary, but it can be other things too - it depends on how you see it... This gorgeous picture book tells the story of a little boy's fear of the Dark. Ingenious holes cut in the illustrations help to explore his feelings. When he goes camping with his dad, he discovers that it's only when it's really Dark that you can see all the beautiful stars. Maybe the Dark isn't so bad after all... This friendly, heartwarming story with a wonderful, cut-out starry sky, is a comforting, helpful book to share with young children.

The dragon's wings stretched, stretched like a ship's sail unfurling - and cut through power lines on the other side of the street. Electricity crackled and sparks flew as the lines came down. I watched, frozen in terror as it turned towards my house and pulled back its head in a roar of attack.

This book will make your blood boil. It is the almost unbelievable account of Christchurch businessman Dave Henderson's five year battle with the Inland Revenue Department. It tells of a government department that is out of control, with little respect for the law and common decency. What started as a routine GST tax return, seeking a sizeable refund, turned into a nightmare. The IRD assessed Mr Henderson's company for a million dollars, refused to explain the basis for the assessments and drove him into bankruptcy. Determined to resist the IRD's bullying tactics, Dave Henderson withstood its continued efforts to drive him further under. This book tells that story. It describes, in graphic detail, the actions, evasions and convolutions practised by a department with almost limitless resources and no-one to monitor its behaviour.

A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts. “A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I’m pretty hard to scare,” raved Stephen King about Paul Tremblay’s previous novel. Now, Tremblay returns with another disturbing tale sure to unsettle readers. Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park. The search isn’t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend Tommy’s disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state police have uncovered no leads. Josh and Luis, the friends who were the last to see Tommy before he vanished, may not be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park, when they were supposedly hanging out a landmark the local teens have renamed Devil’s Rock. Living in an all-too-real nightmare, riddled with worry, pain, and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. She believes a ghostly shadow of Tommy materializes in her bedroom, while Kate and other local residents claim to see a shadow peering through their windows in the dead of night. Then, random pages torn from Tommy’s journal begin to mysteriously appear—entries that reveal an introverted teenager obsessed with the phantasmagoric; the loss of his father, killed in a drunk-driving accident a decade earlier; a folktale involving the devil and the woods of Borderland; and a horrific incident that Tommy believed connects them. As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what happened become more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the shocking truth about that night and Tommy’s disappearance at Devil’s Rock.

This little girl follows her daddy everywhere - upstairs, downstairs, and even to the bathroom! She doesn't like being left alone - the world is so big and she's so small! Can she and her daddy find a solution?

"History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte The Earth Really is Flat The earth is flat and stationary, but you won't hear that on the nightly news.Proving that the earth is a ball spinning through space should be simple, but there is no real-world evidence to support the claim.Instead, all experiments and observations demonstrate that the earth is completely flat and motionless.The greatest deception in modern history has gone on far too long, and it's time for people to know the truth.In this book be prepared to learn: How scientific evidence proves that the earth is "flatter than a pancake" How our ancestors knew that the earth was flat and motionless How fake 'science', brainwashing, and bold-faced lies have shaped our civilization and caused us to accept a false reality From fake moon landings, to fake 'space' images and footage, to fake scientific theories, those behind the scenes understand the importance of 'the big lie', and have used it to 'bamboozle' the unsuspecting and distracted masses for generations.The lies have been exposed and the future is ours to reclaim.Will we remain in the 'dark ages' or WAKE UP in time to change history?tags: flat-earth theory, the earth is flat, the flat earth society, illuminati secrets, new world order, conspiracy of flat earth, nasa, satellites, space, hoax, evolution, big-bang, gravity, einstein, tesla, flat-earth experiments, railroads, bridges, illuminati conspiracy, black budget, international space station, flat earth proof, apollo moon landings, mars rover, manned trip to mars, disinformation, misinformation, straw man, hoax, darwin, piltdown man hoax, nikola tesla, ancient egypt, secret societies, skull and bones, rituals, oath, albert pike, manley hall, atlantis, piri reis map, the lost continent antarctica, circumnavigation of antarctica, illuminati secrets, isaac newton, pythagorean geometry, nikola tesla, gleason flat earth map, albert einstein, charles darwin, thomas huxley, aldous huxley, brave new world, pharmacological revolution, space deception, flat earth facts, flatter than a pancake, brave new world, 1984, piri reis, antarctica pyramid, antarctic treaty, circumnavigation, freemasonry, secret societies, secret oaths, anti-mason, john quincy adams, anti-masonic party, south pole, north pole