Varla Ventura, fan favorite 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.

From the infamous story of T. Crofton Croker's The Soul Cages to a detailed description of a 19th century aquarium, this collection of mermaid stories and folklore will thrill any lover of the most romanticized mythological creature in our history—mermaids.