Varla Ventura 
House that Stood on Chicken Feet 
Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

Varla Ventura, fan favo Urite 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. Baba Yaga, The Girl Without Hands, and some of the more widely known and perpetually-reimagined terrifying Russian fairy tales of Eastern European folkloric tradition.