Matt Mantrell's best friend, Saul, investigates Matt's disappearance, only to find himself in the same fantastic world where lines of poetry work magic. Saul's love of verse makes him a top-rate wizard immediately, but also leads him into conflict with the evil Suettay, a magical queen.

Scooby-Doo and his friends investigate when a witch doctor haunts a volcano in Hawaii.

Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola's writing and the stories collected here are no exception. They feature characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. Their very titles - from 'The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister' to 'Don't Pay Bad for Bad' - are evocative of a unique blend of tradition and imagination, which belongs to the same universal culture as Aesop and the Brothers Grimm.

One-woman expedition up the tributaries of the Amazon in search of medicinal plants.

Although a little witch tries very hard to be good when her whining nasty aunt comes to visit, she needs some help from the Witch Doctor.