title: Gruesome Guide to World Monsters
author:  Judy Sierra 
description: Grade 4-6Drescher's crudely drawn, luridly colored, mixed-media Monsters from the Id-style portraits, which provide perfect jumping-off points for susceptible young imaginations, are matched with Sierra's brief introductions to dozens of ugly customers from world folklore. Along with the few that will provoke shivers of recognition, such as the Australian Bunyip, she offers wonderfully provocative warnings against creatures as diverse as the giant skunk Aniwye, the blood-sucking bat Mansusopsop, and Bloody Mary, an evil specter who lives on the other side of mirrors, especially the mirrors of elementary-school bathrooms. Though the author does not provide specific source notes, she does give each entry a general area of origin, as well as a skull-and-crossbones Gruesomeness Rating and a Survival Tip, if any. This crowd pleaser is a perfect lead-in to Daniel Cohen's spine-chilling tales, or more broadly focused reference titles, such as Rosemary Ellen Guiley's <i>Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters</i> (Facts On File, 2004).<i>John Peters, New York Public Library</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Table of Contents
  FOREWORD by David Boop
  BUBBA SHACKLEFORD’S PROFESSIONAL MONSTER
  KILLERS by Larry Correia
  TROUBLE IN AN HOURGLASS by Jody Lynn Nye
  THE BUFFALO HUNTERS by Sam Knight
  THE SIXTH WORLD by Robert E. Vardeman
  EASY MONEY by Phil Foglio
  THE WICKED WILD by Nicole Givens Kurtz
  CHANCE CORRIGAN AND THE LORD OF THE
  UNDERWORLD by Michael A. Stackpole
  THE GREATEST GUNS IN THE GALAXY by Bryan Thomas
  Schmidt & Ken Scholes
  DANCE OF BONES by Maurice Broaddus
  DRY GULCH DRAGON by Sarah A. Hoyt
  THE TREEFOLD PROBLEM by Alan Dean Foster
  FOUNTAINS OF BLOOD by David Lee Summers
  HIGH MIDNIGHT by Kevin J. Anderson
  COYOTE by Naomi Brett Rourke
  THE KEY by Peter J. Wacks
  A FISTFUL OF WARLOCKS by Jim Butcher
  BIOGRAPHIES
  
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