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Pinup: Anne Marquis

From the boardroom to bodybuilding, from raising kids to striking poses, Anne Marquis defies every expectation.

Editorial: I was contacted through my breakfast cereal

What do conspiracy theories, breakfast cereal, and homemade magazines have in common? One man’s journey from fringe radio to fiction shows that maybe, just maybe, imagination is still our most powerful tool.

Introduction
History of Gilles de Laval
The Castle of Machecoul
Surrender of the Marshal
Examination of Witnesses
Letter of De Retz
The Duke of Brittany reluctant to move
The Bishop of Nantes

Metempsychosis
Sympathy between Men and Beasts
Finnbog and the Bear
Osage and the Beaver
The Connexion of Soul and Body
Buddism
Case of Mr. Holloway
Popular ideas concerning the Body
The derivation of the German Leichnam
Feather Dresses
Transmigration of Souls
A Basque Story
Story from the Pantschatantra
Savage ideas regarding Natural Phenomena
Thunder, Lightning, and Cloud
The origin of the Dragon
John of Bromton’s Dragon a Waterspout
The Legend of Typhoeus
Allegorizing of the Effects of a Hurricane
Anthropomorphosis
The Cirrus Cloud, a Heavenly Swan
Urvaci
The Storm-cloud a Daemon
Vritra and Rakschasas
Story of a Brahmin and a Rakschasas

Ghouls
Story from Fornari
Quotation from Apuleius
Incident mentioned by Marcassus
Cemeteries of Paris violated
Discovery of Violator
Confession of M. Bertrand.

The Inhabitants of Austrian Galicia
The Hamlet of Polomyja
Summer Evening in the Forest
The Beggar Swiatek
A Girl disappears
A School-boy vanishes
A Servant-girl lost
Another Boy carried of
The Discovery made by the Publican of Polomyja
Swiatek locked up
Brought to Dabkow
Commits suicide

The adjourned Trial
The Marshal Confesses
The Case handed over to the Ecclesiastical Tribunal
Prompt steps taken by the Bishop
The Sentence
Ratified by the Secular Court
The Execution.

The Appearance of the Marshal
Pierre de l’Hospital
The Requisition
The Trial adjourned
Meeting of the Marshal and his Servants
The Confession of Henriet
Pontou persuaded to confess all
The adjourned Trial not hurried on
The hesitation of the Duke of Brittany.

The discourses of Dr. Johann Geiler
The Sermon
Remarks

Barrenness of English Folk-lore
Devonshire Traditions
Derivation of Were-wolf
Cannibalism in Scotland
The Angus Robber
The Carle of Perth
French Superstitions
Norwegian Traditions
Danish Tales of Were-wolves
Holstein Stories
The Werewolf in the Netherlands
Among the Greeks; the Serbs; the White Russians; the Poles; the Russians
A Russian Receipt for becoming a Were-wolf
The Bohemian Vlkodlak
Armenian Story
Indian Tales
Abyssinian Budas
American Transformation Tales
A Slovakian Household Tale
Similar Greek, Béarnais, and Icelandic Tales.

Innate Cruelty
Its Three Forms
Dumollard
Andreas Bichel
A Dutch Priest
Other instances of Inherent Cruelty
Cruelty united to Refinement
A Hungarian Bather in Blood
Suddenness with which the Passion is developed
Cannibalism; in pregnant Women; in Maniacs
Hallucination; how Produced
Salves
The Story of Lucius
Self-deception

Space Girl by Thomas M. Malafarina

Billy Enders is an outcast, lost in the pages of pulp sci-fi comics and dreams of intergalactic romance. But when a mysterious, stunning new teacher, Miss Cindy Jones, enters his life, his fantasies of spacefaring seduction begin to blur with reality.