Did you hear something? Whatäó»s that lurking over there behind the bushes? Only the student knows as they perform this sly Late Elementary piece in D Minor - perfectly capturing the spooky unknown creatures that may lurk in the dark on Halloween night. With movement of both hands up and down the keyboard, this piece provides a challenging exercise for hand placement, while never losing the fun character of Halloween. Teachers will enjoy watching as students become faster and faster at placing their hands in the perfect spot to hit that suspenseful note, and then return to the lower shadowy register for more mystery!
By shining the flashlight tethered to the cover, readers can create spooky shadows to help illustrate the rhyming couplets about things that happen at night, such as mice playing a graveyard, bats at the window, and a hungry shark swimming.
Explore the power of Samhain and Halloween through ancient lore, modern witchcraft, and the magic of the unknown. You might've always felt a curiosity about death and what lies beyond the veil. That's why people around the world enjoy festivals like Halloween, a spin-off of ancient Samhain. Death demands that we celebrate life alongside it, and death shows us not only what is possible, but what is important. A different kind of spell book, Season of the Witch is coloring book and a magical journey to explore your psychic powers, perform powerful rituals, deepen (or begin) your witchcraft practice, and learn ways to celebrate this iconic witch's holiday. Samhain is coming.... are you ready?! Find out in this enchantingly illustrated book of magic, art, and spells. Includes: Legends, folklore, and a brief history of Samhain and Halloween. How to get started with simple yet powerful rituals. Green witchcraft and the magic of Samhain's dark herbs and plants. Ways to connect to your ancestry and honor spirits of your loved ones. Spells to enchant your masks, costumes, and witchy Halloween crafts. Channel your inner kitchen witch with herbal spells and recipes. See beyond the veil with lighthearted divinations and Samhain traditions to share with friends and family. A gorgeous set of grimoire-worthy correspondence sheets for Samhain foods, herbs, flowers, poisonous plants, witch's tools, crystals, mythological creatures, and more. Make this Samhain and Halloween your most memorable and powerful yet with Season of the Witch.
A different kind of spell book, Witch's Alchemy is a coloring book that shows you how to unearth your magic through simple rituals and journal prompts. Use the elements of natural magic to become the best witch you can be.
In this creative, creepy, large-format book of black pages, crafters will find jack-o'-lanterns, black cats, ravens, skulls, and more. Just put these 25 punch-out apparitions (no cutting, no folding, no mess) in the window, and they'll turn any home into a haunted house ready to welcome trick-or-treaters. Patterns on the inside back cover allow users to create life-size photocopied silhouettes of Frankenstein's monster, a mummy, zombies, a witch, and other ghosties, ghoulies, and things that go bump in the night.
In Light of Shadows is the long-awaited second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-TaishÅ writer Izumi KyÅ ka. It includes the famous novella Uta andon (A story by lantern light), the bizarre, anti-psychological story "Mayu kakushi no rei' (A quiet obsession), and KyÅ ka's hauntingly erotic final work, "RukÅ shyinsÅ " (The heart-vine), as well as critical discussions of each of these three tales. Translator Charles Inouye places KyÅ ka's "literature of shadows" (ka no bungaku) within a worldwide gothic tradition even as he refines its Japanese context. Underscoring KyÅ ka's relevance for a contemporary international audience, Inouye adjusts Tanizaki Jun'ichirÅ 's evaluation of KyÅ ka as the most Japanese of authors by demonstrating how the writer's paradigm of the suffering heroine can be linked to his exposure to Christianity, to a beautiful American woman, and to the aesthetic of blood sacrifice. In Light of Shadows masterfully conveys the magic allusiveness and elliptical style of this extraordinary writer, who Mishima Yukio called "the only genius of modern Japanese letters."
In September of 2004, Dr. Charles Marsh arrived at the Kriegmoor Psychiatric Institute in Bayfield, Wisconsin, anxious to take on his new duties, eager to distance himself from the scandal that had forced him to resign his previous post. Among the patients assigned to Marsh at this time was a young woman named Kari Hansen, a college student who had suffered a nervous collapse during a school-sponsored anthropology dig a year previously. Subsequently, Ms. Hansen began experiencing what hospital records referred to as "a series of vivid hallucinations;" her own words described visions of an "alien" intelligence, a heretofore unknown kind of life form which appeared to her as shadows, often of indeterminate shape, occasionally taking on the form of man. Dr. Marsh came to believe these shadows were real. Shadows in the Asylum collects, for the first time anywhere, Ms. Hansen's patient records, as well as records belonging to a number of Dr. Marsh's other patients and the related historical evidence that led the doctor to his astonishing conclusions to present a bizarre story of insanity that blurs the line between fact and fiction.
Switch off the lights, turn on your torch and come on a wonderful shadow adventure with Midnight Creatures! This book contains five beautifully crafted pop-up scenes full of creatures to find, from the fork-marked lemur in the jungle to the giant squid at the bottom of the ocean. Use your torch to help you spot the hidden creatures when they appear as shadows on your wall. A beautiful and unique pop-up adventure from talented paper artist Helen Friel.
A century after the witch trials, Salem is still not without its witches... Alice Jacobs doesn't believe in ghosts... until her daughter is taken by one. When her husband disappears while investigating a series of strange and terrible incidents in the bustling seaport of Salem, Alice is forced to bring her young daughter, Abigail, along from Boston while she takes up the search. But she soon learns of a terrible prophecy that has the entire town bracing for nightfall: one hundred years after being hanged for witchcraft, the vengeful spirit of Rebecca Hale will rise from hell on All Hallows' Eve to claim the souls of Salem's children. Alice dismisses the old legend as foolish superstition... until Abigail is snatched from her bed by a sinister woman made of smoke and mist. Desperate to find her daughter before the sun rises and she is lost forever, Alice races against time on a spine-chilling adventure that takes her from forgotten dungeons and gloomy cemeteries to the haunted forests of Gallows Hill. Along with Jonas Hobbes-a roguish sailor searching for his own missing child-she battles deadly supernatural forces and uncovers a dark secret that may be the key to saving Abigail's soul... if only she can survive the most terrifying night of her life.
