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Used - Good: All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Books with markings of any kind on the cover or pages, books marked as "Bargain" or "Remainder," or with any other labels attached, may not be listed as New condition. New: A brand-new copy with cover and original protective wrapping intact. Yes, people meet ghastly ends, and the creatures are inescapably dreadful, but isn’t that exactly what young, literary thrill-seekers are after? Wildly imaginative and delightfully macabre. Cox’s Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods (1913) strikes a similar chord to Alvin Schwartz’s classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981), and it is particularly well-suited to flashlight reading-though its glow-in-the-dark cover continues to menace even when the lights are out. It is for this reason that I award the toteroad shagamaw second place.” Mead’s black-and-white illustrations are horrible in the best sense, ramping up each tale’s tension and fear factor to levels of delightful squirming. Johnson steers clear of abject terror by weaving a thread of humor throughout, evidenced in the narrator’s editorializing, including his apparent dislike of Frenchmen, and pronouncements such as “The most fearsome creature, dear reader, is unpreparedness. They are also the stuff of nightmares and urban legends. 
What would you do if you came across a hodag, “three thousand pounds of pure carnivorous appetite”? Or perhaps the shadow-eating snoligoster that first impales its victims on its large dorsal spike? These are but 2 of the 20 fearsome creatures in Johnson’s gleefully spine-chilling tales, told as a cryptozoologist’s firsthand account of beastly encounters in the North American Lumberwoods.
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