Alfred Hitchcock presents nine short stories that are sure to make young readers shiver (while they get a good dose of some fine writing!).Introduction • essay by Alfred HitchcockThe Mystery of Rabbit Run • (1946) • Jack BechdoltJimmy Takes Vanishin
On the Manhattan bank of the Hudson River, a small lighthouse--made of steel and painted bright red--proudly protects boats with his faithful beam. One day a great expanse of gray steel, which also shines a bright light into the fog and darkness, is built
The most important work of American artist and illustrator Lynd Ward, Gods' Man is a powerfully evocative novel, told entirely through woodcuts. Ward (1905–85), in employing the concept of the wordless pictorial narrative, acknowledged his predecessors
"If you care about graphic novels, you need this book." - New York Times best-selling author Neil GaimanGraphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the
"Ward is ranked among the finest American wood engravers of the 20th century." — artoftheprint.comOne of the finest American wood engravers of the twentieth century and an outstanding artist of any era, Lynd Ward (1905-85) created a series of fantastic
Born and raised on Bright Island off the Maine coast, Thankful Curtis is more like her sea captain grandfather than any of her older brothers are. Nothing suits her better than sailing and helping her father with the farm. But when her dreaded sisters-in-
One of the finest wood engravers of the twentieth century, Lynd Ward took his work to a new dimension when he created the "wordless novel. "Gods' Man, his first novel in woodcuts, appeared in 1929; during the 1930s, he published five more pictorial narrat
