Green trips on the curb, falls flat into the street, and sees the city bus speeding toward him. And then . . . blink. He’s back on the curb, miraculously still alive. A five-foot-tall cro…

The air smelled like rot and memory. Daphne Sinclair stood ankle-deep in black water, tapping the butt of her field staff against something that looked suspiciously like a patch of moss and entirel…

Daphne Sinclair had been electrocuted before. Not fatally, not even impressively, just enough times to recognize the smell of singed hair and bad decisions. Which was precisely why, crouched in the…

Daphne Sinclair cursed as the rotor blades of her hired gyrocopter shredded another puff of jungle mist.“Pilot said ‘nice clearing,’” she muttered. “Pilot didn’t say vines thicker than my thigh, or…

Daphne Sinclair had been chased by worse things than shadows. “Not many,” she muttered, crouched low beneath a rotting timber beam, “but a few.” The floor above her creaked. Then something moved, n…

The rainforest was alive in ways few travellers ever noticed. Daphne Sinclair’s boots sank slightly into the damp, moss-laden earth, her eyes scanning the tangled green as if it were an ancient map…

The wind came in sideways. It always did in this part of the world, thin, needling wind that carried snow like a whisper of knives. Daphne Sinclair stood at the edge of the glacier shelf, her goggl…

The river was the colour of milky tea, and it hummed.Daphne Sinclair squinted against the afternoon glare as her skiff drifted through the sluggish waters of the Bhurja River, deep in the mangrove …

A strange twist of fate draws a man from his ordinary life into a bizarrely extraordinary one filled with supernatural creatures and a new community in which to belong in Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson. After an incident with a bus that should have meant his demise, Green finds himself inexplicably alive, watched by a massive crow that’s somehow unseen by other commuters, and with an acorn in his pocket that he cannot stop his hand from gravitating toward.

दुनिया के 10 रहस्यमयी जीवों की रोचक कहानियां: प्लैटिपस से पैंगोलिन तक, अनोखी विशेषताएं जो आपको हैरान कर देंगी! प्रकृति के चमत्कार जानें।

The Peruvian rainforest smelled of wet moss and madness. Daphne Sinclair crouched beside a muddy footprint no bigger than a plum, her boots half-swallowed by the slop. She adjusted her brass-rimmed…

Daphne Sinclair had trekked through jungles that hummed with venomous insects, tiptoed across volcanic ridges that coughed steam, and once under the regrettable influence of bad tequila, tried to i…

The late-afternoon sun stretched thin across the rocky plateau, painting the cliffs in strokes of molten amber. Daphne Sinclair crouched behind a jagged boulder, notebook balanced precariously on h…

Daphne Sinclair checked her pack for the third time in five minutes. The thick jungle air of the Yucatán Peninsula clung to her skin like damp velvet, and a low, almost imperceptible rustling sugge…

Daphne Sinclair had seen many things cross her path during her oddly specific and poorly understood career as a fossographologist, a field she routinely had to explain as “the study of impossible t…