"Describes a variety of popular monsters, including real-life accounts that inspire the legends behind the creatures"--Provided by publisher.

What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of attitudes toward people, monsters, and death.

Originally titled: Roger Corman: an unauthorized biography of the godfather of indie filmmaking.

Text and color illustrations provide information about outer space, the planets, the stars, and the people who study them.

Dragged from the deepest, darkest depths of the 'Very Peculiar History' vaults, this book collects tales of terror, morbid myths and frightening facts that will chill you witless. Introduced by everyone's favourite bloodsucker, Count Dracula, 'Vampires: A Very Peculiar History' features the origin of vampire-like creatures and a biological and mythological look at human blood (including the best places to bite if you were a vampire!) alongside tales of the real-life vampires that may have inspired the first vampire stories. It includes advice on how to spot a vampire as well as how to become one! Even vampires of film, graphic novel and manga get a taste of the action! Don't be scared, be prepared...with 'Vampires, A Very Peculiar History'!

For centuries, mankind has experienced and had the tenacity to survive tremendous natural disasters. He has endured battles, against his own kind; however, a new battle that will challenge all beliefs is on the horizon. Elders in the Philippines and the Caribbean have been telling folklore stories of evil mythical characters for generations. These viscous characters emerge under the cover of darkness and wreak havoc in these tropical countries. People of the Americas have been skeptical of their existence, laughing at those who believed. August 1st, 2025 everything changed. They are not laughing anymore. People must now pray, or be preyed upon by creatures such as the: Lajabless, Soucouyant, Lagahoo, Dwen, Jacakalantan Aswang, Mananangal, TicTic, Tyanak, WakWak, Ghouls, Rolling Calf, Duppies, Ol’ Higes, River Mumma, Bacoo, Choorile, Ole Higue, and the Massacooramaan. North Americans are at risk. They rely on a security system that is based on rational and tangible situations. They are not equipped to deal with what appears to be random irrational attacks. Officials are baffled by this strange phenomenon. Be wary of dark places. Do not walk alone. Something sinister lurks in the shadow.

Nearly every culture in the world has a myth about people who change into animals. Sometimes this is the result of a curse, or an infection—or sometimes, a dark pact made with evil forces. This book contains three terrifying and thrilling stories of people afflicted with the curse of the werewolf. Readers will learn about the history of werewolves, people who were punished because they were believed to be werewolves, and how the curse of the werewolf can be lifted from those afflicted with it.