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Candlewick PressJust in time for Halloween!
Find sundry novelties, flaps, facsimiles, and more in
a haunting—or is it haunted?—volume that gives new meaning to the term ghost writer.
A True Revelation of Spirits, Ghouls, and Hauntings
by DUGALD A. STEER
Have you been hearing strange footsteps and knocks,
whispers and rattling chains? Perhaps the early-
twentieth-century author of this newly discovered
tome has some secrets to share. Within the book’s
weathered pages you’ll hear of a headless French
pirate in search of his missing noggin, a vanishing
pair of young trickster twins, a ghostly woman who
screams for attention, and other communications
from the “fun side.” Readers who wish to plumb the
mysteries of the paranormal will find some hands-
on challenges to lift their spirits, along with tips on
a range of spectral subjects, such as what to pack in a
ghostologist’s field kit, how to distinguish the types
of ghosts, the best ways to hunt them, and spotting
the unfortunate fakes and frauds. Too bad the late
author never got to see her guide find its way into the
world! But wait—what are those strange and scratchy
asides that appear in odd places throughout the book?
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Over The first title in the ’Ology series,
9 million Dragonology, was published in 2003
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flaps, and tucked away in secret envelopes and booklets. “In addition to the clever text and persuasive
illustrations by Helen Ward, Douglas Carrel, and
Ghostology will be the fifteenth ’Ology volume to dazzle
Wayne Anderson, the interactive book includes an insert
readers. In addition to the fifteen core titles, there are on dragon script, a mini-book of dragon riddles, and a
also thirty spin-off books to extend the fun and fantasy. glass dragon eye bound into the back cover.”
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Ages 8–12 • 32 pages “Even children who don’t like “Surely the most irresistibly playful book
“Complete with ‘magical’ talismans and to read will get caught up in the of 2003 was Dragonology, a faux Victorian
recipes for mysterious potions, it’s bound swashbuckling tale.” compendium on dragons. Now, in the same
to please your Potter-philes.” —Entertainment Weekly vein, follows Egyptology, the 1926 journal
—People Magazine of one Miss Emily Sands, whose goal is to
find the tomb of Osiris, god of the dead, and
‘reveal its treasures to the whole world.’”
—The Boston Globe