![]() From the Berserker stories of Viking fame, to the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, to the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, to the seven-tailed fox woman tale of ancient Japan. The werebeast sections, while paying homage to the popular werewolf, looks at the phenomenon from the perspective of any tale involving man turning into beast. Instead, the other explores those vampire legends outside the norm, what Eastern and Eastern European cultures considered a vampire and how they dealt with them. Unlike the other volumes, this one at least brings in tales from outside of Europe, so it isn’t a retelling of Dracula and other well-known vampire and werewolf tropes. The last pair of chapters discuss tales of vampires and lycanthropes respectively. It isn’t until Chapters 3 and 4 - “Blood Feasts of the Damned” & “The Way of the Werebeast” - that the books takes on an identity of its own. Of the monsters which feed on fear and bring nightmares into the world. It focuses on nightly ghost visitations of specters, demon imps, and various other bogarts determined to spellbind men, and either steal their souls or semen. It opens with the tale of Beowulf - much more entertaining than the original Beowulf text - and fills the pages with brave heroes who were forced to face and destroy some random spawn of chaos.Ĭhapter 2 - “Visitations from the Realms of Shadow” - on the other hand, seems to be formed from leftover tales from volume 4 Ghosts. In fact the first chapter, “Perilous Paths through the Dark” seems as if it were being used for all the stories left out, for space reasons, from the previous volume Legends of Valor. ![]() ![]() Here they take it to contain any old tale about a creature which lurks by night. You do not need to read In Stone first in order to enjoy this book, but I would anyway.The topic of this volume, Night Creatures, is upon reflection a fairly broad brush. I cannot wait for the next book in the series. It's been so many years that most - if not all - of those first impacted have died, and these young adults are seeing a world where AIDs may not have a cure yet, but has treatments, and being told you have it is not an immediate death sentence like it was in the 80s. I think this book is incredibly important for young adults because so many don't understand the AIDs crisis and what it really meant to everyone. We know now, and reading it, knowing what's happening and what's going to happen to everyone who gets sick. What made it more chilling was the way the author didn't just immediately say what was happening. Told from Bryant, it was so realistic I felt like I was living through it with him. It really packs a hard punch, especially with the descriptions of the beginning of the AIDs crisis when doctors didn't know what they were dealing with. What follows is an adventure as Bryant learns to adjust to his new life as he erases his old identity and tries desperately to stop AIDs from taking more lives. Shipping All Sellers TIME-LIFE The Enchanted World: Night Creatures W/Original Box (798) 57.57 FREE shipping Forest Wall Art Print, Night Time Forest Art, Owl Art Work, Owl Wall Art (21) 30.31 FREE shipping Woodland Stars Night Time Wall Decal - Watercolour Stars Wall Stickers - Little Tall Tales (3.3k) 47. In comes Jonathan, the man from the bath house. First he thinks it's the flu, and then, when his lover and other friends start dying, he realizes it's much worse. He enjoys his life, but when an encounter with a mysterious man in a bath house leaves him sick, he freaks out. The time is the 1980s, right at the start of the AIDs crisis, and Bryant has just moved to New York City. ![]() In this book, readers meet Bryant before he's been turned into a vampire. Since I finished the first book in this series, In Stone, I have been dying to get my hands on the sequel/prequel, especially when I found out the main character was going to be Bryant, my favorite side character in the first book. ![]()
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