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Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs
Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs













Later offerings include the origin of the first shape-changing Ymbryne, the story of an unloved lad who becomes a giant locust, and a tale of the long war between Londoners and pigeons over air rights. These lead off with a cautionary episode in which villagers who can regenerate body parts grow rich by selling limbs to cannibals but ultimately let greed overwhelm their better judgement.

Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs

Those impetuous enough to join peculiar readers in proceeding, however, will find a number of affecting adventures. I have loved writing stories and taking photographs and making movies ever since, and have endeavored to do all three.In this special edition, fictive author Millard Nullings selects 10 tales from the many that have passed down through generations to instruct and inform those of the “peculiar persuasion.”Ī prefatory warning that the contents are “strange, depressing, and altogether not to your liking,” not to mention “none of your business,” will surely cause wiser “normals” to steer clear. When I was a little older I got a camera for Christmas and became obsessed with photography, and when I was a little older still my friends and I came into possession of a half-broken video camera and began to make our own movies, starring ourselves, using our bedrooms and backyards for sets. I started writing stories when I was young, on an old typewriter that jammed and longhand on legal pads. I grew up on a farm on the Eastern shore of Maryland and also in a little house by the beach in Englewood, Florida where I got very tan and swam every day until I became half fish. Sometimes I tell them with words, sometimes with pictures, often with both. I have loved writing stories and taking photograph Hi, I'm Ransom, and I like to tell stories.

Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs

Hi, I'm Ransom, and I like to tell stories.















Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs