Barry Moser

A collection of stories, filled with suspense and horror features contributions from such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and H.P. Lovecraft, as well as such modern masters as Stephen King and Ray Bradbury.

A humorous retelling of the classic story recounts the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same fate.

"Illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men"--

An illustrated collection of stories by the well-known horror author, including "The Gold Bug, " "The Tell-tale Heart, " "The Fall of the House of Usher, " and "The Pit and the Pendulum."

A dog and a cat take turns explaining what is wonderful about being who they are.

Twelve trickster tales that show the migration of African culture to America via the West Indies.

Presents information about twenty animals with unusual names and habits, including the loris, okapi, viscacha, and zorilla.

"I'll bet you 20,000 pounds that I can travel around the world in 80 days!" said Phileas Fogg. The time is 1872, when trains and steamships are the fastest means of travel. Across egypt and India, through Hong Kong, Japan and America he goes, encountering wonders along the way and braving many dangers. He meets a beautiful Indian princess and is pursued by a detective with a warrant for arrest...Can they keep Phileas Fogg from winning his bet?

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. It's a lazy Mississippi River town, a place where a boy can learn magical cures for warts, turn a fence-painting job into a leisurely con game, get lost in a cave, escape to an island, or attend his own funeral. It's a time when hooky is punished with a simple swatting and pockets bulge with firecrackers and dead rats; a time...

Text and illustrations explore the countryside and people of Appalachia.