World Folklore

Discover the history and culture of over 50 of the most fearsome mythical creatures to capture the human imagination. Freaky Folklore is your guide to the world’s most terrifying beings, from ancient times to today. Hosts from Eeriecast, the leading horror podcast network, present the most...

This valuable box or combo contains six titles that are each targeted towards a different area of the world. Most are in Europe, and a couple of them beyond that continent. You will listen about myths, deities, people being killed, people betraying each other, animals that can talk, supernatural powers that are exerted, and much, much more. Each of these audiobooks is not only filled with the stories from those times, but a number of background details of that particular society as well.

Ancient Mysteries - Lost Civilizations - Hidden History - Legendary Heroes - Myth vs. Reality - Fairy Tale Origins - Forgotten Legends - Quests & Kingdoms What if every story you were told as a child was hiding something true? Behind the wicked stepmothers and enchanted castles, behind the sword pulled from stone, behind the golden cities explorers died searching for, real history is buried, waiting to be uncovered. Legends and Folklore of the World takes you across centuries of storytelling to unearth where humanity's most enduring legends actually came from, and what they reveal about the...

Before history was written, the gods went to war Long before the mortal kings claimed the Emerald Isle, it was ruled by the Tuatha Dé Danann. They were a race of golden warriors, fierce queens, and masters of primal magic. But paradise is never won without a fight. In this high-stakes epic retelling, D.B. Sullivan brings the ancient Celtic myths to roaring life. Step into a brutal and beautiful age where gods bleed, kingdoms shatter, and legends are forged in the fires of battle. You will ride alongside the legendary figures of Irish myth as you have never seen them before. Lugh, the ...

What if almost everything you think you know about Halloween is wrong? Halloween: A History of the World's Most Haunted Holiday traces the night from its origins as Samhain, an Iron Age Irish festival marking the turn from summer to winter, through two thousand years of accident, adaptation, and reinvention, to the trillion-dollar American holiday it has become today. This is not the tidy, secondhand version of Halloween's history repeated every October in listicles and classroom handouts. This book goes back to primary sources and archaeological evidence to separate what actually happened ...

"For years I have considered Jeff Belanger to be one of the most passionate and knowledgeable authors in the paranormal field. I routinely recommend his books to aspiring paranormal investigators and The World's Most Haunted Places is no exception." —Amy Bruni, costar of Kindred Spirits Now...

The road is still there. The records say it never was. A graduate student contacts historical geographer Dr. Veronica Sellers with an impossible discovery: an Appalachian road appears on maps until 1989—and then vanishes. Not abandoned. Not renamed. Erased. Later county records have been altered as though the road never existed at all. But twelve families once lived along it. Veronica goes to West Virginia expecting a bureaucratic mystery. Instead, she finds a physical road leading into a history someone deliberately removed from the official record. Every mile raises another question. ...

Discover the oldest story ever told—now in a powerful new translation that brings ancient Mesopotamia to vivid life. The Epic of Gilgamesh is humanity's first great work of literature, composed more than 4,000 years ago—centuries before Homer, before the Bible, before any written story you know. This is the tale that established the hero's journey, the quest for immortality, and the profound reckoning with what it means to be human and mortal. Gilgamesh is the mighty King of Uruk: two-thirds god, one-third man, blessed with superhuman strength and cursed with a restless heart. He is a ...

The Twin Natures of the Adlet: The Battle of the Adlet (Legends of the Last Frontier · Book Three) When the blood moon rises, the howls cannot be silenced… Beneath the shimmering northern lights, storms rage—and so do legends. The Adlet, half-human and half-dog, have haunted Alaska’s icy frontiers for centuries. Some call them cursed, torn between man and beast. Others believe they are unstoppable predators, destined to destroy all who cross their path. Now, as a blood-red moon climbs the sky, the whispers grow louder: the Adlet are preparing for war. Two brothers stand at the heart ...

The Green Man has watched from churches, gardens, pub signs and ancient stone for centuries. His face appears among leaves and branches, familiar yet mysterious—but who is he, and why does his image continue to speak to us? The Foliate Way: The Green Man is a wide-ranging journey through the history, folklore, symbolism and living presence of one of our most enduring figures. Michael Arluna Celestial follows the Green Man from medieval carvings and sacred architecture into woodland traditions, seasonal customs, literature, art and modern nature-based spirituality. Rather than forcing the ...

Something is listening in the mountains. And it answers back. When Dr. Mara Keene returns to Echo Ridge to search for her missing brother, she hopes for closure. Instead, she finds a pattern. Three knocks. Two knocks. Three again. Voices echo where no one stands. Children vanish in seconds. Footprints appear that do not belong to any known animal. And beneath the forest lies a vast underground network that behaves like a living intelligence. With the help of seasoned tracker Elias Boone, Mara uncovers a truth buried for generations: The creatures in the hollow are not random predators. They...

Something is hunting beneath the Arctic ice. But the greatest danger may be what it awakens inside her. Dr. Maya Sato trusts evidence, observation, and the discipline of never forcing facts to fit the answer she wants. But aboard an Arctic expedition, something impossible emerges from the frozen dark—and looks directly at her. What begins as a terrifying encounter becomes a fight for survival as Maya and her companions are pulled deeper into an isolated world of unexplained creatures, buried evidence, biological transformation, and secrets powerful people would rather control than ...

In detective Mera Maurea's experience, three things motivate a murder: secrets, convenience, or passion. But none of the three can explain why the Summer King is dead. With a tight deadline hanging over her head, Mera has to figure out who's the culprit before the frail balance that holds the nation of Tagrad together crumbles into dust. To aid her - or turn her life into a living hell, hard to tell which - is her fae partner Sebastian Dhay, a snarky detective with a penchant for the illegal. He's a volatile wild card who will do anything to solve the murder, even if it means his doom.

From a precious oral tradition rooted over 2,500 years in Ireland's past, John O'Donohue's Celtic Wisdom Trilogy brings you this vibrant spiritual legacy, unique in the Western world. A liberating feast of authentic blessings, insights, and teachings, brought to life by this acclaimed poet...

The natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds. “Moss is a captivating storyteller.” —Wall Street Journal For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies...

Everyone remembers Eden. No one can prove it existed. The photographs are real. A lakeside pavilion. Boats on the water. Numbered houses along a curved lane. Families who remember porches, gardens, payments, repairs—and the certainty that the place they called home would endure. But when Dr. Veronica Sellers begins tracing the surviving evidence of Eden, the official record refuses to cooperate. Maps don't match memories. Property files divide one place among different companies and different meanings. Documents promising an Eden home conceal language that says something else entirely. ...

Miriam Mercer has spent years caring for her father as his memory fades. Their days revolve around meals, medication, and questions he asks again and again. Then Henry wakes in the night, terrified that someone is digging at the old plant where he once worked. He says the name of Claire Rowan—Miriam’s teenage friend, who vanished nearly thirty years ago. When redevelopment begins at the site, Henry’s fragments become harder to dismiss. Miriam starts examining the story her family has lived with for decades. But each answer leaves her less certain of what Henry remembers, what he may ...

THE NAMES UNDER MAIN STREET The Records Say They Left. Their Names Say Otherwise. Roadwork beneath a Kansas main street exposes buried foundations - and hundreds of names carved into stone below the town's polished storefronts. Official histories say the former residents moved away before redevelopment began. The names say they remained long enough to mark the place that was being taken from them. Dr. Veronica Sellers follows property transfers, family records, and the altered boundaries beneath Main Street to a campaign of dispossession hidden inside the town's celebrated rise. The ...

Behind the wall are six houses. According to every official record, they were never there. When historical geographer Dr. Veronica Sellers encounters evidence of a residential street sealed away from the community around it, the geography makes no sense. The houses are real. The street is real. The people who lived there were real. Yet property maps, municipal files, and local histories contain no trace of them. Someone didn't simply abandon the street. Someone separated it from the world outside—and then removed it from the record. To understand why, Veronica must reconstruct the lives ...

The Earth Has a Heartbeat. And It’s Getting Hotter. When a classified geothermal project fractures deep beneath a volcanic fault line, it unleashes something no one was prepared for—a living reactor that feeds on heat and adapts to every attempt to destroy it. Dr. Maya Serrano races to stop a catastrophe spiraling beyond containment as molten entities rise from beneath a quarantined valley, replicating and evolving faster than the military can respond. Nuclear strike is authorized. Evacuation fails. The world is watching. But the real terror begins when the creatures stop fighting ...