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The Poison Apple: And Other Tales of Magic Mirrors and Wicked Queen - Magical Creatures A Weiser Books Collection - cover

The Poison Apple: And Other Tales of Magic Mirrors and Wicked Queen - Magical Creatures A Weiser Books Collection

Andrew Lang, Varla A. Ventura

Publisher: Weiser Books

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Summary

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.For fairy tale lovers and fans of TV shows like Grimm and Once Upon a Time and movies like Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman, here is a collection of stories thick with dark woods, poison apples, wicked queens, curses, blessings, huntsmen, true love, crystal coffins, and helpless beauties, largely from Andrew Lang's bestselling Victorian series of color fairy books.
Available since: 04/01/2012.
Print length: 85 pages.

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