Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
1993-1997. Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters is the first in a series of "Book of" anthologies edited by Bruce Coville. It was first published in September 1993 by Scholastic Publishing. It is collection of stories aimed at juvenile readers that advertises itself as "scary", but in fact contains a wide variety of stories and genres such as ...
The Book of Giants is an antediluvian (pre- Flood) narrative that was received primarily in Manichaean literature and known at Turfan. [3] However, the earliest known traditions for the book originate in Aramaic copies of a Book of Giants among the Dead Sea Scrolls. [4] References to the Giants mythology are found in: Genesis 6:1-4, the books ...
The Book of Exalted Deeds was the flip side of the Book of Vile Darkness and dealt with "the extreme elements of the good alignment". It included "ethical questions that most players might not be comfortable with including in their game" and "also dealt with aspects of real-world religion and tried to use them in the context of Dungeons ...
The Lightning Thief. Followed by. The Titan's Curse. The Sea of Monsters is an American fantasy - adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan and published in 2006. It is the second novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and the sequel to The Lightning Thief.
Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short film in 1973 (with an updated version in 1988); a 1980 opera; and a live ...
ISBN. 978-0-7869-6607-3 (Limited Edition Cover), 978-0-7869-6601-1 (Standard Edition) Volo's Guide to Monsters is a sourcebook for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 2016. It is, in part, a supplement to the 5th edition Monster Manual and the Players Handbook.
Codex Gigas. The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [1] Very large illuminated bibles were typical of Romanesque monastic book production, [2] but even among these, the page-size of the Codex Gigas is exceptional. The manuscript is ...
Description. The Encyclopedia of Monsters is a book about creatures from folklore, legend, and documented sightings. The book is divided into chapters about humanoids like Bigfoot, land-based monsters, flying monsters, phantoms, "strange visitors", sea monsters, and creatures from folklore. [2]