When Helsing XII, the latest in the long and illustrious line of brave demon-hunters dies in combat, no-one would have expected his ring of power to be handed down to an idiot.Least of all said idiot; Brian Trelawney, the most hapless car salesman in the whole of Cornwall.With no redeeming features bar his towering height, Brian finds himself thrust into a strange and often terrifying world of vampires, banshees and all other Things That Go Bump In The Night. Trained, after a fashion, by the eccentric Masters, and equipped with strange weapons, Brian is sent into battle as the unwitting savior of mankind.Accompanied by his friend Neil, a man oddly enough far more appropriate for the role of Helsing, Brian must bumble his way through his first mission; placating a terrifying banshee whose keening wailing is keeping the residents of Bodmin from their beauty sleep.++Warning: This book contains copious harsh language and mind-numbing stupidity, all wrapped up in a crunchy supernatural shell.++

Create heroic characters for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.   The Player’s Handbook is the essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons roleplayer. It contains rules for character creation and advancement, backgrounds and skills, exploration and combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Use this book to create characters from among the most iconic D&D races and classes.   Publisher’s Weekly #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction Wall Street Journal #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction   • In Dungeons & Dragons, you and your friends coauthor your own legend. Guided by a Dungeon Master, you create characters and play their roles in a story, rolling dice and navigating maps as you unfold a tale as limitless as your imagination.   • The Player’s Handbook is the first of three D&D core rulebooks, along with the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. The Player’s Handbook is the cornerstone. It’s the foundational text of D&D’s fifth edition—for beginners and for veterans alike.   • The Player’s Handbook walks you through how to create a Dungeons & Dragons character—the role you’ll play in the D&D world.   • Dungeons & Dragons... [Read More]

Fill your Dungeons & Dragons games with deadly monsters from the Monster Manual. The Monster Manual teaches you how to how to fill your Dungeons & Dragons games with monsters—how to populate the game with pesky goblins and mighty dragons for players to battle or beguile, outwit or outrun. Inside the Monster Manual you’ll find more than 150 classic D&D creatures, with vivid illustrations and rich descriptions to help breathe life into your zombies and liches. “…What if I told you about the best book of monsters ever? The 5E Monster Manual just might be the one...”—Ed Grabianowski, io9.Gizmodo.com “D&D acolytes are everywhere...Tech workers from Silicon Valley to Brooklyn have long-running campaigns, and the showrunners and the novelist behind ‘Game of Thrones’ have all been Dungeon Masters.”—Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker • The Monster Manual is one of the three main Dungeons & Dragons books, along with the Player’s Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. It’s an essential resource for Dungeon Masters to use in populating any type of challenge they might contrive for their players. • From an angel’s wingspan to the vacant eyes of a zombie beholder... [Read More]

All five books in the blockbuster Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, in paperback, have been collected in a boxed set fit for demigods. Now with glorious new cover art and packaged with a special poster, this value-priced set includes the best-selling The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian. Whether it is for readers who are experiencing Percy's thrilling adventures with Greek gods and monsters for the first time, or for fans who want to devour the saga again, this gift will be prized by young and old.

The Monster High Character Encyclopedia is packed with colorful images of all of the fangtastic students who attend Monster High.Read all about the clawesome students, including the mansters, Original Ghouls, their pets, and the Fright-Mares. Get a behind-the-screams look at the design details that go into each of the dolls and discover the all of the most iconic Monster High dolls, including the Power Ghouls, Freak du Chic, and Gloom and Bloom.The Monster High Character Encyclopedia offers something new to even the most die-hard Monster High fans!

The ultimate skel-ebration of monster mania, this year's Monster High dance will be the monster bash to end all bashes (if it happens)! And as the Monster High ghouls make new beast friends, the horror show really begins. This freaky fabulous new character is larger than unlife at 17 inches tall! And of course, she wears an over-the-tent fashion with lots of freaky flair! Girls will love recreating scenes from the episodes or telling tall tales of their own. For over-the-tent excitement, collect all of the Monster High Freak du Chic dolls (each sold separately). .

Weave legendary stories in the world’s greatest roleplaying game.   All you need to run a Dungeons & Dragons game is your imagination, some dice, and this book. The Dungeon Master’s Guide teaches you how to how to run D&D adventures for your players— how to invent monsters for them to fight, mysteries for them to solve, and fantasy worlds for them to explore.   “[The Dungeon Master’s Guide is] the one book to rule them all, the most comprehensive and powerful set of resources needed to run a game of D&D. . .” —Charlie Hall, Polygon.com   “D&D acolytes are everywhere...Tech workers from Silicon Valley to Brooklyn have long-running campaigns, and the showrunners and the novelist behind ‘Game of Thrones’ have all been Dungeon Masters.”—Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker   • The Dungeon Master’s Guide is one of the three main Dungeons & Dragons books, along with the Player’s Handbook and Monster Manual. It’s a reference used by the Dungeon Master (the game’s narrator) to create adventures—to run Dungeons & Dragons games and fill them with characters and stories.   • The Dungeon Master’s Guide (DMG) is full of tools to help you immerse playe... [Read More]

Discover the truth about the great conflicts of the D&D multiverse in this supplement for the world's greatest roleplaying game.This tome is built on the writings of the renowned wizard from the world of Greyhawk, gathered over a lifetime of research and scholarship. In his travels to other realms and other planes of existence, he has made many friends, and has risked his life an equal number of times, to amass the knowledge contained herein. In addition to Mordenkainen's musings on the endless wars of the multiverse, the book contains game statistics for dozens of monsters: new demons and devils, several varieties of elves and duergar, and a vast array of other creatures from throughout the planes of existence.

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.FADE IN: INTERIOR COURT. A guard sits at a desk behind Steve. Kathy O'Brien, Steve's lawyer, is all business as she talks to Steve.O'BRIENLet me make sure you understand what's going on. Both you and this king character are on trial for felony murder. Felony Murder is as serious as it gets. . . . When you're in court, you sit there and pay attetion. You let the jury know that you think the case is a serious as they do. . . .STEVEYou think we're going to win ?O'BRIEN (seriously)It probably depends on what you mean by "win."Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder. A Harlem drugstore owner was shot and killed in his store, and the word is that Steve served as the lookout.Guilty or innocent, Steve becomes a pawn in the hands of "the system," cluttered with cynical authority figures and unscrupulous inmates, who will turn in anyone to shorten their own sentences. For the first time, Steve is forced to think about who he is as he faces ... [Read More]

A new Scare Mester is starting at Monster High - and that means new lessons to learn, new looks to die - or undie - for and new beast friends haunting the halls! Twyla, Daughter of the Boogey Man introduced in Monster High 13 Wishes movie, is looking fashionably fierce in her core school outfit. Mixing blue, pink and black in spooktacular ways, she looks a complete nightmare in a collared dress with monsterrific print, scary cute pocket and black trim with bow. Killer accessories include white bangles, a matching black and blue school bag and to-die-for Mary Jane heels. With her signature wisp detailing on her arms and legs and streaked hair, she looks scary cool for the first day of school! Twyla doll also comes with a matching folder, signature-style brush, doll stand and character-specific diary. Collect the rest of the Monster High student body (each sold separately) for a full monster roster! Doll cannot stand alone. Ages 6 and older.

The Monster High mini collectible figures are monster cute -- so cute, you’ll want to collect them all! and with three mini figures in each pack -- one of which is exclusive and found nowhere else -- your collection instantly grows! Each small figure is recognizable through signature styles, iconic elements and monsterrific details. Unique outfits are clawesome and dramatic hairstyles flawesome! Plus, a mix of themes within each three-Pack of Monster High mini figures means you can build your collection in all sorts of ways. This set includes an exclusive Circus Ghouls Lagoona Blue mini figure, a Power Ghouls

The Monster High mini collectible figures are monster cute -- so cute, youll want to collect them all! and with three mini figures in each pack -- one of which is exclusive and found nowhere else -- your collection instantly grows! Each small figure is recognizable through signature styles, iconic elements and monsterrific details. Unique outfits are clawesome and dramatic hairstyles flawesome! Plus, a mix of themes within each three-Pack of Monster High mini figures means you can build your collection in all sorts of ways. This set includes an exclusive Beach Ghouls Cleo de Nile mini figure in neon

Make monster waves with Posea Reef, a new Monster High character from the sea. When the Monster High ghouls get pulled down under to the homeland of Lagoona Blue in the Monster High Great Scarrier Reef movie, they find themselves underwater where they make new beast friends and fight new enemies. With cool glow-in-the-dark bioluminescent effects, the Posea Reef doll makes quite a splash. The daughter of Poseidon loves to go with the flow and opts for floaty fashions that sway with the current. A seaweed tail that allows the doll to stand on her own holds sea creatures that