Insect collectors, breeders, photographers, and other nature hobbyists will find this book useful when searching for the walkingsticks of North America. The masterful camouflage of stick insects intrigues anyone who is fortunate to find and recognize one in the field. This guide provides data on known regions of inhabitation, host plant preferences, and characters to distinguish the various species. Also included are reprints of classic entomological studies on our native stick insects: systematics, natural history, and behavior.

This collection of classic supernatural stories ranges from light fantasy to darkly weird, as angels, demons, souls (lost and saved), and a vast spiritual landscape are brought to light (or at least to print). The authors of these 44 stories include Daniel DeFoe, James Hogg, George MacDonald, G. K. Chesterton, Mary Wilkins, E. G. Swain, M. R. James, Henry S. Whitehead, Robert H. Benson, and others.

Boss Snakes: Stories and Sightings of Giant Snakes in North America offers a comprehensive collection of tales involving an often overlooked folkloric creature. While recognizing that hoaxes and misidentifications exist, there are stories that might just point to larger-than-expected serpents. Includes a brief guide to our larger native species (and new invasive species) and a state-by-state listing of hundreds of historical and contemporary stories.

Twenty classic stories of horror, adventure, and mystery with a focus on Egyptology. Stories include The Mummy's Foot (Theophile Gautier), Some Words with a Mummy (Edgar Allan Poe), Lost in a Pyramid (Louisa May Alcott), My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies (Grant Allen), The Ring of Thoth (Arthur Conan Doyle), Lot No. 249 (Doyle), A Professor of Egyptology (Guy Boothby), The Story of Baelbrow (E. and H. Heron), The Mysterious Mummy (Sax Rohmer), The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt (C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne), Mustapha (S. Baring-Gould), The Nemesis of Fire (Algernon Blackwood), Sand (Blackwood), Smith and...

Invertebrata Enigmatica collects thirty classic sci-fi/fantasy short stories involving strange invertebrates. From giant arachnids to intelligent insects, the stories explore imaginative worlds where human meets bug (and bug might just win...). Some stories are well-known, others are rarely reprinted. They include: The Sphinx, The Blue Beetle: A Confession, The Strong Spider, The Queen of the Bees, The Crab Spider, A Moth-Genus Novo, The Purple Emperor, The Messenger, The Captivity of the Professor, The Valley of the Spiders, The Ash-Tree, The Great White Moth, The Green Spider, The Empire of...

Eight-Legged Marvels explores the diversity of colors, shapes, sizes, and behaviors of spiders around the world. Beyond a basic review of the biology of spiders, it offers incentive to think about beauty and design in a fascinating group of animals.

Anthropologica Incognita collects twenty classic short stories of wild men, monster apes, weird primates, and strange races. Includes the Story of TsoqelEM, Two Nights in Southern Mexico, Hunting of the Soko, Manmat'ha, A Haunt of the Jinkarras, From a Simian Point of View, Dankwarra: the Isle of Fear, The Depths of Kyamo, No-Man's-Land, The Harbour-Master, Found by the Missing Link, In the Lower Passage, Beyond the Banyans, Back There in the Grass, The Ape-Man, The Missing Link, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, Spirit Island, The Horror-Horn, and The Tale of the Abu...

A Spectrum Unseen collects 14 short stories and 2 novellas dealing with invisible people and creatures in classic science fiction and fantasy. Included are H. G. Well's The Invisible Man, and such stories as The Crystal Man, The Horla, The Gift of Fernseed, The Face of Air, Sister Hannah, and more.