Ghost Books

I thought this book was hilarious I read it to my mother while she was sick and she also enjoyed it thoroughly too. I also loved reading Howie's Writing Journal. He's just so funny about all the writing. He also uses so many adjectives generally to describe himself which is so funny when his friend reads it. He always tells him he uses too many adjectives about a certain character. If you enjoy short reads that are funny I think you will enjoy this book thoroughly I would recommend this to anyone. this is a great book and the in book author is so funny its hard put this book down after you start it. I also recommend all the Bunnicula books James Howe also wrote those and all his books are so intense, but so funny at the same time. This was a great book I also read some of the other books in this series and they are just about as funny.

My son was so excited when he was given this book to add to his 'Bunnicula' collection. It has turned out to be a great book, like the others in the series.

Would you ever want to go under a bed to get a potion? Well, It Came From
Beneath the Bed by James Howe is full of mystery. This story is about a dog who wants
to become a writer just like his uncle. Delilah helps Howe save the world from a large
stuffed-animal bear from eating the city. I liked this book a lot. It was good because it was funny and interesting. I don't really have a favorite part because the whole book is
good. Read more to find out.

Would you ever like to visit Asteroid # 6 in space? Tales of the House of Bunnicula Mind Swappers from Asteroid # 6 by James Howe is a good book to read. A dog gets it's mind switched with a squirrel from asteroid #6! Delilah the dog gets sent to asteroid #6 in space. I like this book because it has a lot of cool characters in it and it is really funny. The moral is you should always help your friends when they are in danger. Read more to find out about Tales of the house of Bunnicula mind swappers from Asteroid # 6!

I enjoyed this book even though I did not read the other books in the series. Bunnicula is about a boy who wants to rule the world. He made a potion and spilt it on his stuffed Koala Bear named Pudgykins.The potion made Pudgykins grow really, really big. He was eating everything. After he ate one thing he grew one foot taller. At the end of the book they put him on a boat and brought him to to an Island where people dump trash. People were trying to figure out what to do with him. But they just left him on the Island. I like this book very much.

Stephen Addiss is, quite frankly, my hero. Any book he puts out combines in-depth knowledge, thorough (but accessible) scholarship, and a kind of keen commentary that reveals the experience of one who has had hands-on exposure with his subject matter. For example, another work of his entitled _77 Dances_ is an exceedingly beautiful collection of Japanese calligraphy, with mind-blowing commentary on every page.

The volume under consideration here ranks among one of Addiss' best. As a coffee table type art book, the print quality is superb, the proportions generous, and the colour detailing exquisite. Addiss has provided a comprehensive selection here of artists and subject matter: from Buddhist iconography, to woodblocks from Edo period ghost stories [kaidan], to the eroto-grotesque masters of the Meiji period, such as Kyôsai.

Far from simply compiling the pictures, Addiss provides brilliant detail and historical information, never flying off into punditry. He is an absolute model of clarity combined with research, making his work totally enjoyable to the non-specialist. Asian Studies PhDs out there, take note: you can publish books without losing yourself in a morass of insider cant.

I notice this book a lot on the selves of tattoo artists: obviously, the quality must be good if those who practice that craft trust it for deriving their stencils. I'm not into that scene myself: I think of this volume as providing the kind of illustrative detail, and sensory impressions, that Lafcadio Hearn could not have mustered in his time.

The subject matter detail includes a range of sources: religious, folkloric, theatrical (literary), and so forth. Addiss never condescends when describing the superstitions and spiritual practices associated with the personages.

That this book is out of print is a shame. I would say that, even at twice the price, it is will worth getting a hold of if you have an interest in the subject. It is *vastly* superior to the usual scruffy insights that travellers pass off as 'mysterious Japan'.

A great resource if you wish to get a better grasp of the many Japanese ghosts and supernatural elements which appear in woodblock prints. Well researched. I enjoyed it very much.

As the preface to "Japanese Ghosts and Demons" notes, this book is the fruit of interdisciplinary studies undertaken by the Spencer Museum of Art and the University of Kansas at Lawrence. And it is the results of just such an interdisciplinary approach that have lifted this book out of the realm of an ordinary exhibition catalogue and propelled it into the rarified ranks of an art history classic.

In historical terms, the focus of the book is the Edo period. This long (1615-1868) and peaceful period saw a concatenation of several important trends, including the perfection of the woodblock print, a democratization of art that--for the first time in Japan--served the masses, the rise of the kabuki theater, and a diffusion of popular literature and tales that often focused on the ghostly and the supernatural. The fusion of these trends was most clearly seen in the woodblock prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Utagawa Kunisada, and Ichiryusai Kuniyoshi, many of which are reproduced here. These three giants of the late woodblock period not only made a major contribution in documenting the theatrical and literary trends of the Edo period but also provided many of the visual models still employed in Japanese-style tattooing.

Apart from the rich feast of art presented in this book, "Japanese Ghosts and Demons" will nourish the souls of those interested more in the fields of anthropology and comparative religion. Even today, when Japan has emerged as one of the most technologically advanced nations on earth, fundamental cultural beliefs are still strongly informed by a sense of mutability. "Japanese Ghosts and Demons" makes an important contribution to explaining this phenomenon, in which the boundaries between the living and the dead, humankind and animals, the animate and the inanimate, and the sacred and profane are far more permeable than is believed to be the case in the modern West. Several thousand years ago, before the rise of the three great monotheistic religions, most of the world's societies believed in a universe more pregnant with magical possibilities, a type of universe that this book helps us better understand.

"Japanese Ghost and Demons" is something I really wish I could have been a part in making. A college with a fine collection of supernatural-themed Japanese art, in a variety of mediums, decides to offer an interdisciplinary study class with each group producing papers on a folklore theme, with supporting artwork from the collection. Brilliant.

Each of the chapters is incredibly insightful, providing a complete education on the topic. Along with the traditional subjects such as the Oni, Ghosts and Tengu, there are many less-often covered subjects such as Sennin: The Immortals of Taoism and Shoki the Demon Queller. I was particularly pleased to learn about Shoki, as I was browsing a print shop in Kyoto and was able to recognize the Demon Queller himself in a few prints.

The plates are, of course, beautiful, and cover an incredible range of medium, from the familiar prints to the drawings, paintings and netsuke carvings. The reproduction quality is high, and the size of the book is "coffee table" size, allowing for nice sized images. The majority of the plates are in full color.

As someone who has read quite a few books on Japanese supernatural folklore, I recommend "Japanese Ghosts and Demons" as one of the best. It would be hard to be disappointed by this treasure.

I almost hesitate to add a review since there are two other reviews here that do such a fine job. I actually attended the University of Kansas and was therefore able to visit the Spencer Museum of Art and see some of these works on display. I purchased my copy of this book at the museum and used it as part of my source material for a theses I wrote while matriculating at KU, so I am very familiar with this book.

This is a very, very impressive book with loads of gorgeously rendered and reproduced wood-block prints. If you like Japanese art you will wish to have this book simply to look at the pictures. My children actually like to get this book down and look at the pictures, half because it is truly amazing art and half because the art is focused on the creepy-crawly and supernatural. An element of Japanese culture and psychology is viscerally on display in these fine prints and it is easy to see that this form of art is the precursor to the Manga that is so popular today.

This book is much more than a simple visual display though. There is a wealth of information, meticulously researched, presented here on the creatures that make up the pantheon of the eerie and supernatural in medieval Japan. For serious students, or even those with a surfeit of Hobbits just wanting a better grounding in an alternate milieu of the supernatural, this is an excellent tome, well-written, easy-to-follow, and chock-full of information. Buy it for the pictures, buy it for the text, or buy it for both, you won't be disappointed.

In this book the reader is introduced to B.C.Bingham, a self confessed High School geek and nerd who is secretly in love with the town Sherriff's daughter, Karen Slater. Karen is involved with a mean loser who likes to play cruel pranks on helpless victims and she is blind to B.C's feelings for her. Then an outbreak of a deadly virus occurs and the small quiet town of Jericho Falls is quarantined with disastrous results.B.C. then proves to all that he has an immense reserve of courage and he makes an unlikely but very believable hero.This is a very well written novel by a talented writer and I look forward to his next offering.

Its obvious Mr. Hyde did his research. Excellent Plot with excellent research into black bag operations that are conducted to this day. Non stop reading!

I've never looked at an egg the same way since! This book scared my hair gray! The characters in this story were completely believable. The authors use of landmarks and route names makes this story utterly believable. A must read!!

Im a 17 year old, and I got this book from my mother who had already read it.She had purchased it at a used book store.But anyway, I am the kind of person who likes to read but it's hard for me to find a book that I like.So when I started to read this it was amazing how wonderful it was.The plot was very believable and always kept me on the edge of my seat!I reccomend this book to anyone who likes to read or likes suspense.,

Though published in 1986, Christopher Hyde's, "Jericho Falls", a novel about a clandestine military operation to cover-up a Chemical/Biological accident in a small New Hampshire town, is still fresh even in the early part of the 21st Century. Written in the manner of Michael Crichton's, "Andromeda Strain" and Robin Cook's, "Outbreak", Hyde's plot revolves around an accident that occurs during the transport of QQ9, a secret biological weapon that the military has been working on. When townspeople begin to show signs of some sort of terrible epidemic, it's a race between the military and Sheriff Jack Slater and company to see if the disease can be stopped before the military wipes the town off the map.

Hyde does a great job with character development and creates a few sidebars for many of the main players in the book. Sheriff Slater leads the town's battle against the evil military commander, Col. James Wright, who practically has written the "book" on the cover-up and containment of Chemical and Biological "accidents". While this battle for survival is going on, divorced-father Slater is also dealing with his rebellious teenage daughter, Karen, and his feelings of affection for Karen's homeroom teacher, Jenny Hale. Other interesting characters include the town's resident hippie, "Sparrow" Hawke and Dr. Rembrandt Payne, both of whom become reluctant heroes as the book rockets to its exciting and somewhat unexpected conclusion. Though working with a very interesting plot, Hyde does a great job making the novel character-driven so that the reader really feels a connection with the main players.

"Jericho Falls" is a page-turner that will have the reader on the edge of his or her seat and will increase the paranoia that some Americans already have about the intentions of their military and govenmental leaders.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Kristin Sorra's vibrant drawings bring an old English folk story to life in Aaron Shepard's engaging King O The Cats. What kind of intelligence can cats have? Young Peter Black has noticed some strange things happening among the local cats lately; but nobody will believe his wild tale. His investigation of what is affecting all the cats in town reveals a changing world brought on by a single leader.

Aunt Mary read _King o' the Cats_ to niece Robin, age 8, who really loves cats. She liked it all, especially the coronation scene. Robin is involved in Renaissance Faire activities and is attuned to the rituals of royalty. Aunt Mary liked the irony of Father Allen gaining a reputation for telling tall tales. Also, the illustrations were lovely, dark and appropriately spooky.

I read "The King O' the Cats" to a group of children ranging in age from kindergarten through 5th grade. After hearing the story, all the children thought this was a good book to read to kids, but that it might be too scary for the younger ones. They all like cat stories and liked how the cats helped prove Peter's "stories" to be true. They thought it had to be something important to get the cats to talk to people, though.
The illustrations lead to discussions on how the pictures were used to bring out the most important parts of the story, such as how the King of the cats stood out from the crowd as he was being crowned and thought it was interesting that the priest looked angry but spoke kindly to Peter.
There was the one child who prefered books with non-talking cats, though.

Our class really liked the book King O' the Cats. Kelly enjoyed the crowning of the cats, and all the cats going meow, meow. Mary enjoyed the details, which made her want to read more and more. Cheyenne liked how in the beginning Peter was making up stories, and at the end, the priest does the same things. Marissa feels that the book was "fantastic and funny." She especially liked when Tom jumped up and shouted "Then I'm the king o' the cats!" Diana enjoyed reading about Peter's shortcut. Shannon liked it when the cat hit his head! Alex B. liked the cats on the foxes chasing the dog. Brittany's favorite part was the cats in the church. Alex C. made a text-to-self connection, since he has cats, and he felt bad when his cat died. Daniel H. made a text-to-text connection-it reminded him of The Secret Shortcut. Destin also made a text-to-text connection, with The Boy Who Cried Wolf. (He also feels this book should get a medal!) Efren liked when the cats cried for the dead king cat. Morgan liked the whole book, but especially when the cats were speaking. Preston says, "I love your book, oh yes I do!" Ty liked when Tom went up the fireplace chimney, and he liked the title, too. Michelle wants Aaron Shepard to write a King O' the Cats part 2!

First the disclaimer: I am the author's wife. BUT...Wait...Before you decide to skip this review, let me add something.

I've never reviewed any of his other books.

So why this one?

King o' the Cats is a very special book. It's a slightly spooky story with twists and surprises in both the plot and the characters. It dramatizes truth and imagination, creativity and conformity.

But mostly, it's a delight. A special book, a special gift--for children, grownups, cat lovers, and anyone at all who enjoys a good story.

By the way, Aaron has a reader's theater script of this book available online at www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE36.html

This book is scary but really good! I really like mysteries. When the Krushers are leaving a game, the bridge is flooded and the only place to stay is in a HAUNTED MANSION! They find a mystery in the mansion and end up finding out that the person involved in the mystery lives right in their own town Stoneybrook! I like this book because like I said, i love mysteries!

ISBN 0590449583 - I haven't been reading the BSC books in any particular order, which sometimes makes it confusing. Dawn and Mary Ann are stepsisters, they weren't in the last book I read; Stacey is in Stoneybrook, she was in New York the last I knew... It doesn't impact the book, as each one does stand alone, but I'd read them in order if I were to start again! That said, the Mystery books aren't numbered the same way as the others, so my only complaint is that I wouldn't have any idea where they fit into the series!

Kristy is the coach of a softball team named the Krushers. Bart coaches the Bashers. They form an all-star team from both of their teams and dub them the Krashers. Travelling home from Redfield after a game Kristy, Bart, Charlie and eight kids find themselves stranded by a storm. The only house in sight is a mansion where they had seen lights, so they head to it, hoping that they can call home to let their parents know they're okay. A smaller house on the property is occupied by an old man, who tells him he's the caretaker and lets them stay the night in the big house.

While they're there, the kids find a diary and other clues to a mystery. Owen Sawyer's portrait scares Jamie, who has heard that the Sawyer house is haunted - and now they're IN that house! Owen's daughter died on a night just like this, the night she had planned to elope with her boyfriend, Will. How long will they be trapped there? And will they meet Dorothy Sawyer's ghost while they wait for the storm to stop?

Very good story, not too scary but very interesting reading. I like that the BSC books always reference other books (and sometimes, movies) - in this case, Beezus and Ramona, Little Women, The Wizard of Oz, The Little Mermaid, Frog and Toad and Ghostbusters. I did find a few things odd. For one, Kristy says "I'm always reading these articles about people being struck by lightning and having their zippers welded shut and stuff, and the idea just scares the daylights out of me." Her greatest fear, if struck by lightning, is that she won't be able to open her zipper? That's stupid, and the BSC books aren't usually stupid. Also, having read a bunch of these books and never having come across the mention of a group hug before, it was a surprise to read "... a group hug. That's a BSC tradition..." On the positive side, I liked the reference to Resurrection Mary's story, even if she was never named, and even if her story gets told all over the country with a different name! And I really like that Martin pays attention to details, like remembering their horse-craziness by having Mallory and Jessi looking at a book of horse pictures. All around, just a teeny bit better than the usual BSC books, which are great to begin with!

Kristy and the haunted mansion is one of the best baby-sitters club books that I have read so far. I love baby-sitters club because it's always an adventure to experience. Kristy and her softball team got stuck in a thunderstorm and had to sleep in a big spooky mansion on sayer road. they snoop around and find out a lot of stuff about the people who used to live there and even met one of them. But they survived the night. The members of the baby-sitters club threw a party for Kristy when she got back to Stoneybrook.

When Kristy and the Krashers are forced to live inside a creepy mansion with a creepy mystery. One of Kristy's Krusher gets scared. They have to sleep there because of a terrible rain. Is Jackie's ghost story true like lights going on and off, a dead woman, ...

Kristy team has a softball game and when they are on there way home Charlie can not see where he is going. He takes the wrong way he crosses over a bridge. A storm is going on at the same time. when they cross over the bridge the bridge falls down. kristy and Bart's team have to spend this night at a old house that they think is hauted. will they make it though the night? Find out when you read this great book

for this well-researched series. Grabien has a gift for writing scenes that are spooky without being gratuitous.

I'm sorry, but I frequently save books that I buy from Amazon to read at a future date. This is such a one. I'm sure it's excellent, however, because I've read all the author's other books.

Grabien is a consistently delightful writer, and with "Matty Groves" she not only continues her Haunted Ballad series but improves on it, upping the ante with her scariest ghost yet.

When authors produce a series of novels they tend to fall into patterns in their writing, and the action can get very predictable. Grabien avoids that trap in "Matty Groves"; although main characters Ringan and Penny once again run into a ghost connected to an old folk tune, this time around the threat is more serious and the tactics they used to cope before won't work. Grabien's clever solution to the problem of how to get rid of the ghost is unexpected and yet logical.

As with the two previous books in the series ("The Weaver and the Factory Maid" and "The Famous Flower of Serving Men"), "Matty Groves" combines historical and contemporary fiction into one entertaining story. You don't have to have read the two previous books in the series to understand and enjoy this one, although I'd still recommend reading them in order if you can.

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved ghost stories. I love mysteries and thrillers too and Deborah Grabien has married both genres perfectly in MATTY GROVES. I can guarantee you that if you get a copy of this book you'll be hooked right in. Folksinger Ringan Laine and Penny Wintercraft-Hawkes, who are back from Ms. Grabien's first to outstanding ghostly efforts, are once again involved in a ghostly mystery. The ghost in this story is a pretty malevolent character, some chilling stuff you're going to love to read about.

Ringan and his band Broomfield Hill, have been invited to play at the Callowen Arts Festival at Callowen House in Hampshire and a visit to an old manor brings Ringan and his actress lover Penny face to face with a ghost once again, a ghost who can kill and this is not good, well not good for Ringan and Penny, but plenty good for the reader who will not be able to put this book down.

Musician Ringan Laine returns home to Sommerset, England to find that he and his group Broomfield Hill are invited to perform at the Callowen House Arts Festival. He eagerly accepts the invitation and takes his girlfriend Penny Wintercroft-Howles with him. Residing there is the benign ghost of Lady Susanna who was murdered in August 1629 unlike the two spirits Ringan and Penny exorcised last year who were not as benevolent.

When they arrive, Jane, a member of the band, dreams that she is Lady Susana brutalized by her beloved husband's cousin Andrew. Ringan is possessed by Andrew and almost rapes Penny, hurting her ear and mouth. He is a malevolent incubus and can cause death to the living so he must be stopped before that happens. Penny, who is the power source that wakes him up, feels it is her responsibility to get rid of this evil; with the help of her lover they research records to learn the truth about what happened over three centuries ago so they can send him to hell where he belongs.

Although the antagonist is a ghost, he is just as evil, malevolent and sadistic as the most deranged mortal killer. He plays a major role in the storyline as the protagonists struggle to stop the evil that he perpetrates. The love between Ringan and Penny is so strong that she knows immediately it is not her lover who is hurting her but someone using his body. The investigation to learn the facts about what happened to Lady Susanna is a journey through historical forensic records and it is fascinating to see the pieces come together. Deborah Grabien has written a great mystery wrapped around a terrifying ghost story.

Harriet Klausner

I picked this up off the library shelf, and aside from a few "huh" moments, was not at all bothered that this was third in a series.

This is a mystery, yes, but it is not at all formulaic. The hero of the story, Fever Devlin, a folklorist goth-ish man, doesn't even really solve the mystery, though his logic fu is strong.

The characters are well drawn and the mystery is a good, compelling story. The scenes are drawn well, and one almost feels the air of the Appalachains and tastes the food of the south.

All in all, quite a good story.

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Phillip Depoy utilizes a fluid and lyrical prose to depict a man whose fractured soul is caught between the realms of his crippling and fairly surreal past and his hauntingly eerie present circumstances. His blending of folkloric legend with the Georgia Appalachian hill-country setting that is backgound to all of his Fever Devilin mysteries results in a tale that is spellbinding and impossible to set down.

Patricia Anne Dennison--author of THE SPELL OF SAINT CYRIL'S CEMETERY and STOP THE VOICES

There are so many different parts of the South, it becomes difficult to create a true picture of the region, but Phillip DePoy's A MINISTER'S GHOST is both accurate and electric as he weaves a twisted tale of suspense.
Fever Delvin is a collector of the tales of his home area in the GA mountains. The death of two young women on a railroad crossing leads Fever on a twisted path to discover the truth before someone else falls victim to a crafty killer. He meets unexpected resistance from his old friend Sheriff Skidmore Needle.
This is our first Fever Devilin, but it will not be the last. The characters are so well drawn and the incidents so believable when you have a friend who established a department of folk literature for a university and live in the Cumberland Mountains.
Nash Black, author of TRAVELERS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.

Depoy's latest work is simply wonderful. Fine characterization, sharp plotting, and engagingly written. Don't miss it!

This book is not for everyone. As a reader, one must open oneself to the local culture, atmosphere and old beliefs of hill people where what's real can have a different definition. The characters include little people, a ghost, a snake-handling preacher, hobos, a junk-yard dealer with a unique musical instrument and Fever's best friend, the sheriff who is not acting like himself. The mystery is not the strength of the story. The strength is the unusual, intriguing characters and atmospheric, lyrical writing. Personally, I very much enjoyed this book and this series and want to find out more about these fascinating people.

I picked up "Mirror Murders" on the recommendation of a friend. Psychological thrillers are not my usual choice for reading, so I was skeptical. That soon changed. I was totally mesmerized from the beginning. The characters are so well defined, and you can't help feeling for each and every one of them, even the bad guys. The story line kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. I'm on my way to pick up "Screams from the Furnace" from the brilliant mind of Marjaree Mayne, and can hardly wait. Please keep them coming, Miss Mayne.

One of the best books, I have read in a very long time. Just as
good as Stephen Kings books. Marjaree Mayne is an excellent writer. I hope she keeps them coming.

Mirror Murder is a psychological horror that goes beyond the norm. Ms. Mayne has taken a situation that evokes sympathy, the plight of Siamese (conjoined) twins and spins a tale with so many double backs that it's impossible to know ending. It'll keep a reader up very late at night and the story will stay with the reader. Excellently crafted, the story will enthrall a reader to the very last page. It's so well done that even by reading the ending first, there's no way a reader would know the story. Excellent! I'm a fan of King, Koontz, Straub, Kellerman and McCammon; if you like these readers, you'll love Mayne. Can't wait to read her next book!!!...

VERY suspensful! I received this book at 1 in the morning and needless to say I got no sleep that night. I couldn't put it down! I finished it in under 5 hours!! A record for me! Usually about the 6th or 7th chapter I know who it is that is the bad "guy" but this one had me going! I was surprised to find that I had been wrong all along!! I love it!!

I am a mystery reader. I read Mirror Murder and even when I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it. Ms. Mayne gets her readers right into the story without a lot of dragging around. She holds their attention and I like the fact that even though the main characters were bad, you still liked them. I would suggest this book to anyone who enjoys a good mystery.

Mokole is a wonderful book detailing the werecrocodiles and weredragons of the World of Darkness. The writing is superb, truly bringing to life the Mokole, and portraying what it is like to posess a racial memory back to the time of the dinosaurs. The feel of incredible antiquity, the weight of ages of Memory and wisdom, keenly permeates this Breedbook. This book does not merely describe the Mokole and their culture, it builds a vivid atmosphere, describing these ancient relics of a distant golden age, and does an excellent job of immersing the reader in their very unique worldview.

The book focuses most on the Australian Aboriginal culture of the Gumagan tribe, although it also describes the other tribes and their cultures. I hardly know anything about Aboriginal culture, but it looks like the authors of Mokole did a good job of respectfully including it in the book without the dreadfulness of Rage Across Australia, and I am glad to see Australia covered in another W:tA book.

The Mokole are an amazing race, and I am eager to play them someday. Their war-form, the Archid, is a dinosaur or dragon, and it is customizable and completely different for each character. The Mokole have all unique totems, rites, gifts, and fetishes, including ghostly totems from extinct species. Although they posess immense physical power - they are weredragons! - they are truly focused on peaceful functions. The are very different in feel and function from the Garou, and should provide many new opportunites for players and STs. Although the Mokole are usually antagonistic toward werewolves, they can work with Garou in the Hengeyokai and the Ahadi, and the book's metaplot provides possibilities for inter-Breed interaction outside of these coalitions.

Every Breedbook includes the Breed's version of the history of the world and their part in it, but the Mokole's story of history spans 200 million years! The Mokole can remember a previous Apocalypse that wiped out the dinosaurs and an earlier intelligent race, the Lizard Kings, and they know of even earlier Apocalypses that came before that one. They believe that Gaia will survive the current crisis. Mokole revolutionizes the history of the World of Darkness. Even among Changing-Breeds, they take an extremely long view, and their insights and stories are interesting to say the least! The Mokole recall the Wars of Rage like they were yesterday, and their tales describe three entire Changing-Breeds that are now exinct. There are even basic rules for constructing games set in the Mesozoic, mostly intended for stories contained in a modern character's Memory.

Finally, although the Mokole are weredinosaurs and speak frankly about evolution and geological Eras, the entire feel of the book is still as fully mystical as the rest of Werewolf, without drifting into genetics or other Weaverish explanations.

The one major problem is the end of the fictional story. The resolution of the story's conflict makes no sense and is silly. Except for that, this is a totally awesome book!

Mokole is a book for an addition to werewolf the apocalypse. You must have the "werewolf: the apocalypse" book in order to use this one to it's fullest ability. Mokole is a book about and how to play a were-alligator, were-crocodile, were-moniter lizards, were-gila monsters, were-caiman, and most importantly... they are all were-dragons! The mokole gives you mnesis, an ability to remember back to the time of the dinosaur kings. If you want to look like a big lizard, godzilla, dinosaur, sea serpent, fire breathing dragon, or oriental dragon.. then this is a book for you. The werewolves are the warriors of gaia, the mokole are her memory.

Out of all the kin books for the Wherewolf The Apocalypse game i like this one the most. It gave the much needed variety in the game and allowed for a great game. Allowing characters with these new and interesting powers is great fun, and by adding new sources and titles to your WW library you can laugh and have more fun with your friends that you play with.
I suggest this book to everyone and hope you take my word on it.
great great fun.

This book is everything you need to play the Mokole, were-reptiles who remember (and embody) Gaia's past, the days of the Dragon Kings (dinosaurs). As naturally, the book opens with a comic adventure telling of the Garou Peter Ward's quest to Australia to meet with the Mokole themselves and learn of his heritage. The book then gives the typical introduction, lexicon of terms and an explanation of what it is to embody the dragons, dinosaurs and sea serpents of the past through your Rage. From there it goes on to a great history, telling of the Mokole's creation and the reptilian civilizations of prehistoric times. The Mokole can even remember previous Apocalypses (like the one that destroyed the dinosaurs) and fully expect to live through this one. Details on the Wars of Rage and the War of Shame are given, along with lost Fera (were-bulls, boars and bats) known only to the Mokole. In addition, brief mention is made of human times, like ancient Egypt, the Slave Trade and so forth ("western" history doesn't really matter, since most Mokole come from the tropics).

The next chapter covers the four Streams (tribes) of the Mokole: the Gumagan of Australia who share ties to the Dreamtime, the Makara priest-kings of India and neighboring lands, the primordial Mokole-Mbembe of Africa, the American Southeast and the Amazon and the scholarly Zhong Lung of East Asia's Hengeyokai. Specifics are given for each (like how the Gumagan have strong ties to the Umbra, differences in Mnesis and how the Zhong Long and Makara follow different auspices). Views on other Fera, vampires and even stranger factions (like mummies, voodooists, tribal shaman and Egyptian magi) are given, along with details on names and Duties (the Mokole Litany). The next chapter gives the crunchy bits, covering the Mokole solar auspices, new Traits, forms (not all are crocodiles or alligators; gila monsters, Komodo dragons and gharials are also represented) and Crinos traits (their Crinos form consists of various traits borrowed from other reptiles, like horns, armor, wings, frills, venom and so forth). Details on Totems are also given, along with new Totems, Fetishes and Merits/Flaws. All of these fit right in, from the reptile Totems to Fetishes drawn from Aboriginal culture.

The next chapter covers Gifts for the Mokole, including general Gifts, solar/seasonal auspice Gifts and Stream Gifts, many of which are quite interesting. A number of useful (and uniquely Mokole) Rites are also presented. In the following chapter, we are given a look at useful information on Mokole breeding, Mnesis (their racial memory), the "Innocents" (ghosts of dead metis), camps and relationships with the Nagah (were-snakes). We also get the standard templates, like the Native Rights guerilla and the rainforest ethnobotanist, and NPCs, including Uncle Monday (a centuries old Florida Conjure Doctor), Sister Rae (who has True Faith in the sun), Morwangu (who was involved in the story in the book) and Braney (a Wyrm corrupted children's show host). The book closes out nicely with details on RL crocodilians, monitors and gila monsters, the hatred for vampires (particularly Setites), Mnesis spirits, the Dragon Kings, prehistoric birds and marsupials that once served as Mokole kin, and stories set in the final days or the War of Rage.

The end also includes the typical template for creating and running Mokole characters. This can be used just as easily for western Mokole as it can for the eastern Makara/Zhong Lung (who follow slightly different creation rules). Needless to say, this book blew me away. The Mokole are probably my favorite Fera, and this book is invaluable for playing them. I also appreciated the strong focus on Australian Aboriginal culture which permeates much of this book. All in all, I think this book is quite useful for any Mokole Chronicles (and quite a head ache for those who want to try and figure out the World of Darkness's "cosmology").

This is a great book. It helps to portray the true peril that the changing breeds are in and it also shows what those who truly desire to restore the balance, not just destroy the wyrm (dissolver) are capable of. This book has enthralled me since I bought it and now I really want to get an all Mokole game off the ground (too bad that my compadres insist on involving Bastet, Changeling, and Vamps :P). If you're considering buying it to this point, DO!

An intriguing mystrey novel that will keep you wondering all the way through,who is the drug lord/murderer,who is helping him,and who can,in fact,be trusted????

This book was really really good. Kinda predictable, but I still loved it! If you love the other SVH Super Thrillers then you will definately love this one!!!

This book was great except it's ending was predictable. I wouldn't recommend this book if you are an avid mystery reader.

hmmm... what can i say about this amazing book? well, it's terrific, fantabulous, gr8, amazing, need i say more? jessica and elizabeth wakefield find themselves entangled in yet another mystery. it's a really brilliant book, read it and i promise you that you'll say the same. PS: i solved the mystery before i got to the end. cool huh?

Is a great story, full of mistery and interesting staff. Jessica discovers a complot of two murders to kill a girl. And later when she finds out about a girl being killed as she heard on the phone, she confesed to the police.but one of the murder's partener is in police. Jessica is in danger. What's gonna happen ? Read and you'll see. I guarante you a great time in reading this book.