Newfoundland and Labrador is blessed with more fairies, devils, old hags, phantoms, Jacky Lanterns, sea monsters, and other fabulous and frightening creatures than any other spot in Canada. Author and researcher Dale Jarvis, creator of the award-winning St. John's Haunted Hike, has pulled together a compendium of strange tales about the even stranger spectres, sprites, and curious beasties that inhabit the province's shores. From Signal Hill's headless ghost to the Northern Peninsula's Isle of Demons to the fairy paths of the Southern Shore, Wonderful Strange is your guide to encounters with the unexplained.
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Dale Gilbert Jarvis is a performer, researcher, writer, and storyteller living and working in St. John's. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Anthropology from Trent University and an M.A. in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He currently works for the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and is President of the Newfoundland Historic Trust. Dale is a regular writer for and contributor to the Downhomer magazine, and his fortnightly exploration of all things paranormal in the province, "Newfoundland Unexplained," is a regular column in The Telegram. As a storyteller, Dale has performed locally and at international festivals, but is perhaps less well known than his alter ego, the distinguished Reverend Thomas Wyckham Jarvis, Esquire. Since 1997 The Reverend has been the host and guide of the St. John's Haunted Hike, a walking ghost tour through the haunted streets of St. John's. Under his supervision, locals and tourists have been introduced to the vengeful lovers, murdered soldiers, and mysterious fires that await those brave enough to explore the secrets that lie in wait in St. John's darkest corners. Mixing history, humour, and traditional storytelling (and the odd scare here and there), Dale has won over audiences and has been covered by a wide variety of local, national, and international media. Dale lives in an old row house in downtown St. John's with his partner, Kelly Jones, their four cats, and a relatively helpful ghost.
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Great source material, made odd and boring,
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This review is from: Wonderful Strange: Ghosts, Fairies, and Fabulous Beasties (Paperback)
Jarvis mines rich, wonderful source material and turned it into a book that is at best odd and consistently boring. Avoid this one.
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very good strange,
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This review is from: Wonderful Strange: Ghosts, Fairies, and Fabulous Beasties (Paperback)
While I wouldn't go so far to say it is wonderful, I'd say the book was very good. Quite fast reading, but wish there were more particulars, and an index would have been good, too. But interesting.
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