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    The Unruly Sprite: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Unruly Sprite: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Unruly Sprite: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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    The Unruly Sprite: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

    By Henry Van Dyke and Reginald Bakeley

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    Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.

    Join Reginald Bakeley on a sprite-and-fairy hunt in this torrid little tale from 1912 author and humorist Henry Van Dyke. Here you'll learn that it's okay to take your creative frustrations out on a misbehaving sprite via whips and switches.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781619400641
    The Unruly Sprite: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Henry Van Dyke

    Henry Van Dyke (1928–2011) was born in Allegan, Michigan, and grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where his parents were professors at Alabama State College. He served in the Army in occupied Germany, playing flute in the 427th Marching Band. There he abandoned his early ambition to become a concert pianist and began to write. In 1958, after attending the University of Michigan on the G.I. Bill and living in Ann Arbor, he moved to New York, where he spent the rest of his life. Henry taught creative writing part-time at Kent State University from 1969 until his retirement in 1993, and was the author of four novels, including Blood of Strawberries, a sequel to Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes.

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      The Unruly Sprite - Henry Van Dyke

      A Cautionary Note from the Editor:

      Reginald Bakeley was introduced to me by his publisher, Clint Marsh, back in the late 1990s, and he has been harassing me ever since. He has wanted to collaborate on a project, but his rather antagonistic approach to things never seemed to fit with any of my supernatural endeavors. That is until I read Henry Van Dyke's short story, The Unruly Sprite. The rather violent mistreatment of a magical creature seemed to align with Bakeley's beliefs. And so, at last, I had something to offer him. I must say what I found to be brutal, he found to be not nearly enough. And so, Dear Reader, tread with caution into this tale. It is certainly not a gentle fairy tale, and not something to read the kiddies at night. It is best served with some single malt Scotch and a notebook on hand. You'll likely end up with ideas above your station.

      —VARLA VENTURA, ED.

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