Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, a weekly open gathering in Toronto begun by Dan Yashinsky in 1978 and still going strong. There are tales from Canada and many other parts of the world; each followed by a brief word from the teller, giving us the flavour of the Friday Nights.
Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytellin...
Ghostwise is a bewitching collection of strange and scary stories of ghosts and other supernatural occurrences from many different cultures. The storytellers in this collection include Mariella Bertelli, Alice Kane, Cathy Miyata, Stanley Sparkles, and many more. Prepare to meet spirits who reach across the shifting border that separates the dead from the living and heroes who overcome evil with a courage they didn't know they possessed. Beware of the monsters whose bone-chilling stories will haunt you time and again. And, listen carefully to the voices within each story: you, too, can become...
Ghostwise is a bewitching collection of strange and scary stories of ghosts and other supernatural occurrences from many different cultures. The story...
In Suddenly They Heard Footsteps, Dan Yashinsky, one of North America's best-known storytellers, shows how an old tradition has become the new avant-garde. Storytelling is very much alive in the digital age despite the pressures of an -on-demand- society. Yashinsky admits that people no longer have to hear and retain information with the same urgency required of previous generations. However, people still choose to listen, and stories still have the power to create a sense of community and a shared past.
The belief that storytelling is a necessary and beneficial art for our times...
In Suddenly They Heard Footsteps, Dan Yashinsky, one of North America's best-known storytellers, shows how an old tradition has become the n...
