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Tales about faraway Russian villages, long winter nights, deep snow, thatched huts, forests with wild animals and muzhiks (peasants), who have never progressed beyond the very beginning of human civilization

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

The animals and birds of the forest hold a contest to choose which will sing a song to greet the day.

For the community of Oscola, New York, the mound has never been dangerous, until now--something evil is hiding beneath it. Only an impossible gamble will give the town a chance to prevail, and only Brian and Loi know the stakes.

The animals and birds of the forest hold a contest to choose which will sing a song to greet the day.

"Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. This time has to be different, so she turns to the Melancons, an old and powerful Harlem family known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the secret source of their healing power. When a deal for Laila to acquire a piece of caul falls through, she is heartbroken, but when the child is stillborn, she is overcome with grief and rage....

When Beaver challenges Turtle to a swimming race for ownership of the pond, Turtle outsmarts Beaver, and Beaver learns to share.

A collection of five stories by American author Washington Irving, including the title work about a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and wakes to a much-changed world.

During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes, and he must find her while confronting an unspeakable darkness along the way.

"When [Charles Thomas Tester] delivers an occult book to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, [he] opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping"--Page 4 of cover.