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It's the terrifying debut of the Ultimate Hobgoblin as Harry Osborn returns to Midtown High harboring a dark secret that will affect the lives of all those around him - especially his best friend, Peter Parker. And where does Harry's father - Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin - fit into all this? Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #72-78..
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The old adage, rules are made to be broken has never been as well defended as in MISS THISTLEBOTTOM'S HOBGOBLINS Throughout the book, Bernstein asserts that we have been indoctrinated with English usage rules that lack flexibility and evoke fear, confusion and frustration in writers. There are times when splitting an infinitive or ending a sentence with a preposition makes sense. Through a series of one-sided correspondences with Bertha Thistlebottom, an archetypal grade school English teacher, Bernstein addresses the community of rule mongering sticklers who have tried to squeeze the English language into a set of inflexible rules and outmoded definitions that only serve to stifle its growth and paralyze writers. In addition to his letters to Miss Thistlebottom, there are scores of entries where Bernstein debunks the rules of yesteryear with wit and intelligence and illustrates how to write effectively--without the worry of hobgoblins..
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"Enchanting . . . witty . . . full of surprises and delights "
—The Times

"Fascinating . . . a monstrous, magnificent fairy ride . . . Purkiss writes about nymphs and lamiae, about demons and familiars, about fairground freaks and Lost Boys, about ET and dead Elvis . . . both splendidly scholarly and breezily accessible."
—Sunday Times

"Fascinating . . . rigorously researched . . . highly recommended."
—Choice

"Illuminating and enormous fun."
—Spectator

"Elegantly written and witty."
—The Times

"A clever, bold and enriching study of an absorbing subject . . . a book that anybody intrigued by the history of the little people and their origins ought to read."
—Literary Review

"Witty, eccentric and seductive . . . written with a rich generosity of spirit."
—Sunday Telegraph

At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society.

The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes and make dreams come true—as brought to you by Disney's fairies flitting across a woodland glade, or Tinkerbell's magic wand—is predated by a darker, denser world of gorgons, goblins, and gellos; the ancient antecedents of Shakespeare's mischievous Puck or J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. For, as Diane Purkiss explains in this engrossing history, ancient fairies were born of fear: fear of the dark, of death, and of other great rites of passage, birth and sex. To understand the importance of these early fairies to pre-industrial peoples, we need to recover that sense of dread.

This book begins with the earliest manifestations of fairies in ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. The child-killing demons and nymphs of these cultures are the joint ancestors of the medieval fairies of northern Europe, when fairy figures provided a bridge between the secular and the sacred. Fairies abducted babies and virgins, spirited away young men who were seduced by fairy queens and remained suspended in liminal states.

Tamed by Shakespeare's view of the spirit world, Victorian fairies fluttered across the theater stage and the pages of children's books to reappear a century later as detergent trade marks and alien abductors. In learning about these often strange and mysterious creatures, we learn something about ourselvesour fears and our desires.

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A retelling of a Norwegian folktale follows Tatterhood, the wild and strange twin sister of sweet and perfect princess Isabella, as she attempts to break a spell placed on her sibling..
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This is the definitive hobgoblin sourcebook for Dungeons & Dragons and the Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign setting. Detailed information on hobgoblins of the sovereign lands for D&D players and dungeon masters. This includes five hobgoblin sub-races, a new hobgoblin variant class, new hobgoblin spells, new hobgoblin weapons and armor, five hobgoblin prestige classes, feats for hobgoblins PCs and NPCs, new hobgoblin skills and new variant rules..
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