The Unruly Sprite: Magical Creatures, a Weiser Books Collection

by Henry Van Dyke, Reginald Bakeley

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.

Join Reginald Bakeley on a sprite-and-fairy hunt in this torrid little tale from 1912 author and humorist Henry Van Dyke. Here you'll learn that it's okay to take your creative frustrations out on a misbehaving sprite via whips and switches.

19 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2009

About the author

Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, educator, and author. He graduated from Princeton in 1873, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883-99), professor of English literature at Princeton (1899-1923), and U.S. minister to the Netherlands (1913-16).

Among his popular inspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man (1896). As President Wilson's ambassador to the Netherlands from 1913, Van Dyke was a first-hand witness to the outbreak of World War I and its progress, and was a key player in the President's diplomatic efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict.

Not to be confused with his father, Henry J. Van Dyke (1822-1891).

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