How To Trap A Zombie Track A Vampire And Other Hands On Activities For Monster Hunters

An activity book that discusses the secrets of wizardry school, covering how to make a wizard robe, play vampire tag, survive a monster attack, produce an improvised wand, and more.

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.

Since the dawn of time, monsters have plagued mankind, slaying the unwary and terrorizing helpless villages. But, thanks to an extraordinary group of heroic men who have valiantly battled the vile beasts that threaten us, humanity has survived relatively unscathed. Here, in this fully illustrated compendium, classicist Ibrahim Amin reintroduces the ancient art of monster hunting to a whole new generation of intrepid warriors. From a hellhound¿s three-headed assault to a brain-eating zombie attack -- and complete with an impressive catalogue of the pre-modern world¿s most powerful armaments -- this book details everything a new generation of intrepid monster hunters needs to know to vanquish antiquity¿s biggest -- and baddest -- beasts. Full-color illustrations.

Everyone has heard stories about terrifying monsters like vampires, zombies, werewolves, and witches. The experts claim there's nothing to worry about from them, since monsters only exist in books and movies. But what if those so-called "experts" are wrong? Or what if they want you to let your guard down so the monsters will eat you first? How can you protect yourself from blood-thirsty vampires or hungry werewolves? What about walking corpses and cranky witches?This book is your first line of defense against a wide variety of evil creatures. It will teach you to identify them, repel them, and escape from them. You'll even learn what to do if you're attacked and become a monster yourself. The advice includes Important Safety Tips like, "Don't waste your money on a mongoose" and "Yogurt can be your best friend or worst enemy." You'll also find activities like quizzes to help identify witches and how to use mirrors to tell if you have already become a vampire.Author Tweedy Britches might be young, but he has already spent years learning the secrets of avoiding monsters, escaping from monsters, destroying monsters, and helping other people stay safe from monsters. Now he uses his expertise to help keep others from becoming part of a monster menu. If you want to contact Tweedy, he never answers the door, the phone, or the mail. After all, monsters can be hiding anywhere. You can reach his publisher by sending an email to Kissing Frog Books. His editor will respond if she hasn't already been eaten, and she'll let Tweedy know that his work has saved another reader from a cruel fate on the claws or in the jaws of a horrifying monster.

'[A] spine–tingling new activity book' – The Evening Standard, London The Week Junior UK, Science + Nature Magazine Book of the Week, October 2019. 'This book is fantastic…a great way to get the creative juices flowing.' The Inspiration Edit The Monster Book of Zombies, Spooks and Ghouls is the perfect book for Halloween or for spook–tastic fun at any time of year! The book is packed full of fun and eerie activities that will keep children busy as they draw and create zombies, ghosts, monsters, werewolves and vampires. The Monster Book of Zombies, Spooks and Ghouls is illustrated in Jason Ford's quirky trademark style, recognisable from his superhero books series, including The Superhero Handbook and The Superhero Comic Kit. Readers will meet the zombies and all their undead friends as they design a zombie diner menu, learn to draw a vampire, cause chaos with scary spiders, and much more! This is an ideal gift book for kids aged 6+

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry