Butterfly Moon

Anita Endrezze has deep memories. Her father was a Yaqui Indian. Her mother traced her heritage to Slovenia, Germany, Romania, and Italy. And her stories seem to bubble up from this ancestral cauldron. Butterfly Moon is a collection of short stories based on folk tales from around the world. But its stories are set in the contemporary, everyday world. Or are they? Endrezze tells these stories in a distinctive and poetic voice. Fantasy often intrudes into reality. Alternate “realities” and shifting perspectives lead us to question our own perceptions. Endrezze is especially interested in how humans hide feelings or repress thoughts by developing shadow selves. In “Raven’s Moon,” she introduces the shadow concept with a Black Moon, the “unseen reflection of the known.” (Of course the story is about a witch couple who seem very much in love.) The title character in “The Wife Who Lived on Wind” is an ogress who lives in a world somewhat similar to our own, but only somewhat. “The Vampire and the Moth Woman” reveals shape-shifters living among us. Not surprisingly, Trickster appears in these tales. As in Native American stories, Trickster might be a fox or a coyote or a raven or a human—or something in between. “White Butterflies” and “Where the Bones Are” both deal with devastating diseases that swept through Yaqui country in the 1530s. Underneath their surfaces are old Yaqui folktales that feature the greatest Trickster of all: Death (and his little brother Fate). Enjoyably disturbing, these stories linger—deep in our memory.

Lori Van Kirk Schue is an award winning fine and graphic artist and author of many children's and art resource books, including the best selling Art Works for Kids. She is an expert in art curriculum development and a professional illustrator. Her books are always dedicated to her family for their constant inspiration and support. Moon Glow and Hyacinth is a story about accepting who you are, inside and out. A caterpillar who wishes she could swim and a tadpole who wants wings so she can fly? How absurd! Moon Glow and Hyacinth try to achieve what they most admire in each other. But in the end, each must accept the harsh truth that sometimes you have to embrace your limitations. They learn that instead of wishing you are like someone else, discovering the magic that makes you unique and using your imagination can make your dreams come true. Children often find fault with the way they speak or look, or with their abilities. Looking to others as ideal may lead to self doubt or low self esteem. Learning to appreciate others while accepting who we are inside and out is not always easy. But using our imaginations can suddenly open a world of new ideas that lead to self confidence. Developing a strong vocabulary and engaging in the arts are wonderful ways to express ourselves. This See Say Create book combines literature and art activities to help develop a whole minded, creative approach to learning. Read the story, learn new vocabulary from the supplied list of definitions, and have fun creating. the art projects were developed especially for Moon Glow and Hyacinth by Artlingz, Inc., an online creativity warehouse of fun and educational art activities for everyone. This is a See Say Create™ book for budding readers and artists. For more See Say Create books by Lori Van Kirk Schue that combine stories and art, look for Peapod, Dot and Charlie. Have more fun doing art. Visit www. artlingz. com.

Seashell or sea shells are the hard exoskeleton of mollusks such as snails, clams, chitons. For most people, acquaintance with mollusks began with empty shells. These shells often delight the eye with a variety of shapes and colors. Conchology studies the mollusk shells and this science dates back to the 17th century. However, modern science - malacology is the study of mollusks as whole organisms. Today more and more people are interacting with the ocean - divers, snorkelers, beachgoers - all of them often find in the seas not empty shells but live mollusks - living shells, whose appearance is significantly different from museum specimens. This book serves as a tool for identifying such animals. The book covers the region from the Red Sea to Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, and Guam. Inside the book: • Photographs of 1500+ species, including one hundred cowries (Cypraeidae) and more than one hundred twenty allied cowries (Ovulidae) of the region; • Live photo of hundreds of species have never before appeared in field guides or popular books; • 2600 full-color images; • Convenient pictorial guide at the beginning and index at the end of the book. It is designed for divers, underwater photographers, snorkelers, shell collectors, beachcombers, and nature lovers. Photographs, showing color variations are included. The validity of species names was checked with the help of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS).

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." ~ H.P. Lovecraft This collection includes 160 of H.P. Lovecraft''s works. The collection is grouped by Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborative Works, Poetry and Essays. The groups are organized in chronological order by the date that each work was written. * Professional formatting, giving you full control over fonts, font sizes, and line spacing * Active table of contents accessed by the "go to" or "menu" button * Links to download full-length audiobooks included FREE! Early Writings: The Little Glass Bottle (1897) The Secret Cave (1898) The Mystery Of The Graveyard (1898) The Mysterious Ship (1902) The Beast in the Cave (1905) The Alchemist (1908) Fiction: The Tomb (1917) Dagon (1917) A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917) Sweet Ermengarde (1917) Polaris (1918) Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919) Memory (1919) Old Bugs (1919) The Transition of Juan Romero (1919) The White Ship (1919) The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919) The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919) The Terrible Old Man (1920) The Tree (1920) The Cats of Ulthar (1920) The Temple (1920) Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920) The Street (1920) Celepha?»s (1920) From Beyond (1920) Nyarlathotep (1920) The Picture in the House (1920) Ex Oblivione (1921) The Nameless City (1921) The Quest of Iranon (1921) The Moon-Bog (1921) The Outsider (1921) The Other Gods (1921) The Music of Erich Zann (1921) Herbert WestÑReanimator (1922) Hypnos (1922) What the Moon Brings (1922) Azathoth (1922) The Hound (1922) The Lurking Fear (1922) The Rats in the Walls (1923) The Unnamable (1923) The Festival (1923) The Shunned House (1924) The Horror at Red Hook (1925) He (1925) In the Vault (1925) The Descendant (1926) Cool Air (1926) The Call of Cthulhu (1926) Pickman''s Model (1926) The Silver Key (1926) The Strange High House in the Mist (1926) The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927) The Colour Out of Space (1927) The Very Old Folk (1927) The Thing in the Moonlight (1927) A History Of The Necronomicon (1927) Ibid (1928) The Dunwich Horror (1928) The Whisperer in Darkness (1930) At the Mountains of Madness (1931) Discarded Draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) The Dreams in the Witch House (1932) The Thing on the Doorstep (1933) The Evil Clergyman (1933) The Book (1933) The Shadow Out of Time (1934-1935) The Haunter of the Dark (1935) Collaborative Works: The Green Meadow (1918) Poetry and the Gods (1920) The Crawling Chaos (1920) The Horror At Martin''s Beach (1922) Under the Pyramids (1924) Two Black Bottles (1926) The Last Test (1927) The Curse Of Yig (1928) The Electric Executioner (1929) The Mound (1929) Medusa''s Coil (1930) The Trap (1931) The Man Of Stone (1932) The Horror In The Museum (1932) Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1932) Winged Death (1933) Out of the Aeons (1933) The Horror In The Burying-Ground (1933) The Hoard Of The Wizard-Beast (1933) The Slaying of the Monster (1933) The Tree On the Hill (1934) The Battle That Ended the Century (1934) Till A'' the Seas... (1935) Collapsing Cosmoses (1935) The Challenge From Beyond (1935) The Disinterment (1935) The Diary Of Alonzo Typer (1935) In the Walls of Eryx (1936) The Night Ocean (1936) Poetry: Poemata Minora, Volume II (1902) On Receiving a Picture of Swans (1915) March (1915) Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea (1915) An American to Mother England (1916) Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee (1916) The Rose of England (1916) The Poe-et''s Nightmare (1916) The Teuton''s Battle-Song Fact and Fancy (1917) Pacifist War SongÑ1917 (1917) A Garden (1917) The Peace Advocate (1917) Ode for July Fourth, 1917 (1917) Nemesis (1917) Astrophobos (1917) Sunset (1917) Laeta; a Lament (1918) Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme (1917-1918) The Conscript (1918) Despair (1919) Revelation (1919) The House (1919) The City (1919) To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany (1919) The Nightmare Lake (1919) On Reading Lord Dunsany''s Book of Wonder (1920) Christmas (1920) Sir Thomas Tryout (1921) Waste Paper (1922) Providence (1924) The Cats (1925) Festival (1925) Hallowe''en in a Suburb (1925) The Wood (1929) The Outpost (1929) The Ancient Track (1929) The Messenger (1929) Fungi from Yuggoth (1929-1930) Little Sam Perkins (1934) Dead Passion''s Flame (1935) Arcadia (1935) In a Sequester''d Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk''d (1936) To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures (1936) Life''s Mystery (No date) Nathicana (No date) Christmas Greetings (No date) Essays: Metrical Regularity (1915) The Allowable Rhyme (1915) At the Root (1918) The Despised Pastoral (1918) The Literature of Rome (1918) Americanism (1919) Literary Composition (1920) Winifred Virginia Jackson: A "Different" Poetess (1921) Supernatural Horror In Literature (1925-1927) Cats And Dogs (1926) Notes On Writing Weird Fiction (1933) Audiobook Links: Links to download 60 free, full-length audiobooks for H.P. Lovecraft''s works can be found at the end of the book.

Each of us lives an extraordinary life; however, the artists are qualified to share their thoughts in a manner that preserves existence, universally. Two writers, Rochelle Lynn Holt and Virginia Love Long, shared a friendship that was both literary and encompassing of everyday experiences. The writers, however, also revealed their emotions in poems and collaborative published projects. This memorial, POINTING TO THE MOON, is a novel biography in epistolary form. Letters have become a lost art now that e-mail exists! But, once, there was time to reflect in long missives.

Exploring a prominent digital mythology, this book proposes a new way of viewing both online narratives and the online communities which tell them. The Slender Man – a monster known for making children disappear and causing violent deaths to the adults who seek to know more about him – is used as an extended case study to explore the role of digital communities, as well as the question of the existence of a broader “digital culture”. Structural anthropological mythic analysis and ethnographic details demonstrate how the Slender Man mythology is structured, and how its everlasting nature in the online communities demonstrates an importance of the mythos.