A collector's edition of over 350 Color photos from the award winning motion picture Tales of Frankenstein - Four gruesome stories spanning a century, in an all star cast, in classic Frankenstein style. Celebrating the 200 year anniversary of Mary Shelley's original "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus.". With man-made monsters, mad labs and madder scientists. Castles, crypts, and creeping cadaver parts. Brain transplants and body snatching....
This is Donald F. Glut's brand new companion to his classic volume, True Vampires of History. As in his first book, True Werewolves of History, uses contemporary chronicles and new research to bring to life the stories of over 100 werewolves from the pages of history. This new 21st Century tour-de-force brings together real tales of werewolves (not to mention "were" bears and "were" jaguars) from throughout the world and across the centuries. ...
Donald F. Glut's classic is back in print after decades, bringing to life again tales of historical vampires taken from numerous contemporary chronicles dating from the days of the Roman Empire up through the recorded exploits of vampire hunters of the Twentieth Century. From the cobblestone streets of European cities, through the vastness of Asia and the jungles of Africa, to the secret haunts of the New World, the author brings his researche...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, started a phenomeon that has survived the years and permeated many aspects of popular culture. It has spawned numerous films, television programs, books, comics, stage presentations, and the like, and continues to do so today.Like the Frankenstein Monster, this work is made up of many individual parts, some of which are quite different...
Here is the fourth supplement to Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia, a 1998 American Library Association Outstanding Reference Book (ARBA called it ?a reference legend...lavishly illustrated, cleverly written, and extraordinarily comprehensive?). This volume updates the concepts discussed in the encyclopedia and its earlier supplements. It includes a discussion of the Mesozoic Era, covers recent discoveries in paleontology, and furthers the ectotherm...
This is the third supplement to Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia (a 1998 American Library Association Outstanding Reference Book) and follows the intent and format of that volume and its first two supplements ("superb...the scope is phenomenal"--ARBA). This continuation of what is now the standard dinosaur encyclopedia provides up-todate concepts, based on the latest original research of paleontologists, on such topics as the Mesozoic Era, new disc...
This is the first supplement to the highly acclaimed Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia that was named an ALA OUTSTANDING REFERENCE BOOK. Some of the reviews of the 1997 work: "Highly recommended"--Choice, "grander than anything ever accomplished of similar title or reputation"--Dinosaur World, "the most thorough and most scholarly dinosaur encyclopedia yet"--Rettig on Reference, "THE dinosaur encyclopedia"--VOYA, "a welcome resource"--ARBA, "a monum...
This reference work is the second supplement to Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia (a 1998 American Library Association Outstanding Reference Book) and follows the intent and format of the encyclopedia and first supplement. In speaking of that first supplement--"superb...the scope in phenomenal"--ARBA referred to the basic volume as "a reference legend...lavishly illustrated, cleverly written, and extraordinarily comprehensive." This continuation of ...
Luke Skywalker hat den Todesstern zerstört, doch der Krieg zwischen den Rebellen und dem Imperium hat gerade erst begonnen. Die Rebellen-Armee um Luke Skywalker, Prinzessin Leia und Han Solo bereiten auf dem Eisplaneten Hoth ihre nächsten Schritte vor, doch eine Spürsonde führt die Imperiale Sternenflotte direkt zu ihnen. Luke kann der erbitterten Schlacht entkommen und folgt seiner Eingebung zum Dagobah-System. Dort trifft er auf Yoda, den le...
Based on the story by George Lucas and the screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence KasdanThe adventures of Luke Skywalker did not end with the destruction of the Death Star.Though the Rebel Alliance won a significant battle, the war against the Empire has only just begun. Several months have passed, and the Rebels have established a hidden outpost on the frozen wasteland of Hoth. But even on that icy backwater planet, they cannot escape the ...
