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In this collection of top ten Greek legends, a top police inspector investigates Oedipus's crimes and there's the chance to play the hero in the story of the Trojan war and Achilles. The book also includes nasty ways to die, cruel Greek criminals and petrifying pets of the ancient world.
Poznáte najslávnejšieho netvora všetkých čias? Máte tušenie, ktorý horor zaujíma prvé miesto na rebríčku tisícok strašidelných príbehov? Žeby to bol Pes baskervillský - napínavá novela o Sherlockovi Holmesovi z pera A. C. Doyla? Alebo Dracula - hrôzyplný príbeh od Brama Stokera o krvilačnom transylvánskom grófovi? Táto knižka vám príťažlivou formou prináša prehľad toho, čo patrí medzi "hororovú klasiku". Čakajú na vás blázniví doktori, agresívne vtáky, vlkolaci, démoni, mŕtvoly vstávajúce z hrobov,... skutočná Desivá literatúra!
TERRY DEARY'S BEST EVER SHAKESPEARE TALES tells you more than what happens in everyone's favourite Shakespeare plays - he tells you the stories behind them too. Find out how the plays were originally staged and what Shakespeare himself might have thought of his work being taught in schools. Includes Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and many more.
Story 1. A midsummer night's dream : nightmare in elm trees -- Fantastic facts 1: The ten ages of Shakespeare -- Story 2. King Lear : Lear today, gone tomorrow -- Fantastic facts 2: Shakespeare theatre -- Story 3. Twelfth night : Malvolio's madness -- Fantastic facts 3: Ten best actors' tales -- Story 4. The tempest : Miranda's diary -- Fantastic facts 4: The Shakespeare timeline -- Story 5. The merchant of Venice : Shylock shocker -- Shakespeare's blind date -- Fantastic facts 5: Villains or victims? -- Story 6. Romeo and Juliet : play dead -- Fantastic facts 6: Foul word-play -- Story 7. Julius Caesar : the revenge of Caesar's spirit -- Fantastic facts 7: Who wrote Shakespeare? -- Story 8. The taming of the shrew : shrew shocker -- Fantastic facts 8: Shakespeare's audiences -- Story 9. Macbeth : the ballad of Big Mac -- Fantastic facts 9: The Macbeth curse -- Story 10: Hamlet : the topped ten -- Fantastic facts 10: Quick quiz
The ten best Arthurian Legends are re-told, but with a modern twist! Readers can follow Arthur's sensational rise to fame in the Celtic Clarion and find out who proves to be the best in the quest for the Holy Grail. With fact files on knights and jousting, plus a who's who of Arthurian Legends, this title is 100% Horrible!
From killer king Oedipus to monstrous Medusa's horrible hair, Terry Deary presents the classic Greek legends ... with a modern twist. Heracles sits his SATs and the wife of Zeus spills the beans about her husband. With fact files on furies, harpies and other killer creatures and the evils of the Underworld revelead, this title is 100% Horrible!
Presents the ten best Viking Legends. This title lets readers find out about Thor's missing hammer, Fenrir the out-of-control giant wolf, how the Vikings thought the world would end, and more. It features cartoons and fact sections, including a gallery of the gods, and ten Norse monsters to avoid.
Shivering spectres and screaming skulls galore in the ten best ghost stories ... ever! Including The Body Snatchers, which finds Dr Fettes on a midnight trip to the graveyard; Night Mail, which takes place on board a phantom stagecoach; and Turn of the Screw - a spine-chilling tale of children with some very ghoulish 'friends'.
