Tales of the peculiar / by Ransom Riggs ; illustrations by Andrew Davidson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399538537
- ISBN: 0399538534
- Physical Description: 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Syndrigast Publications/Dutton Books, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The splendid cannibals -- The fork-tongued princess -- The first Ymbryne -- The woman who befriended ghosts -- Cocobolo -- The pigeons of Saint Paul's -- The girl who could tame nightmares -- The locust -- The boy who could hold back the sea -- The tale of Cuthbert. |
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Subject: | Paranormal fiction, American. Supernatural > Fiction. Short stories. |
Genre: | Horror fiction. Fairy tales. Short stories. |
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | PZ 7 .R544 Tal 2016 | 30775305513625 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Tales of the Peculiar
Ransom Riggs is a writer and filmmaker. He was born in Marland in 1980 and attended the Pine View School for the Gifted in Florida. He studied English literature at Kenyon College and studied film at the University of Southern California. His work on short films for the Internet and blogging for Mental Floss magazine got him a job writing The Sherlock Holmes Handbook which was released as a tie-in to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film. Riggs had collected curious vernacular photographs and approached his publisher, Quirk Books, about using some of them in a picture book. On the suggestion of an editor, Riggs used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative. The resulting book was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children which made The New York Times Best Seller list. One of his other books inspired by old photographs entitled Taking Pictures was published in 2012. Hollow City, the sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, also made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography)