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.