Varla Ventura fan favorite on Huffington Posts 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 cryptoclassics Magical Creatures is a hairraising herd of affordable digital editions curated with Varlas affectionate and unerring eye for the fantasticPerhaps one of the most notorious creatures from the fairy realm is the everchanging trickster fairy the Pooka A shapeshifter the pooka can take many forms including invisibility although it most often appears as a terrible horse with eyes of fire and flaming breath It can also appear as a goat goblin dog or even a rabbit Not inherently evil their main task is taunting theyll take you on a joyride of terrifying proportions shake you out of your current frame of mind knock you out of your stupor with a swift kick Taming the Pooka includes tales of this monsters mayhemfrom such notables as W B Yeats and T Crofton Croker as well as Douglas Hyde No one is beyond the cunning of the pooka