Story of an Appearance and Disappearance

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.

Master horror writer Montague Rhodes James sets a gruesome scene when a beloved uncle goes missing and a prophetic dream and the seemingly innocent puppets of a Punch and Judy show reveal a sinister and bloody truth behind his disappearance.