Coachwhip Publications

If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach then the way to a people's heart is through its cuisine. This book, more than volumes of history, takes you straight to the heart of a most loveable...

Ancient rock art is better known in western North America, but it is also an important feature in the historical landscape of eastern North America. This booklet reprints a report first published in...

Phantom Bouquets reprints two of the first detailed booklets on skeletonizing leaves for decoration and nature study, and offers notes on modern methods for this fascinating nature craft. Bleached or...

Table tennis (or ping-pong) is a popular activity for both youth and adults. For those who want a better understanding of the game, its rules, and tactics, this 1930 guide relates the history of the...

Leo Eloesser brings together a historical look at the pirate surgeon, often as shifty and larcenous as his pirate and buccaneer companions. A life on the sea was not without danger. Injury and...

Developing from the ancient game of quoits, pitching horseshoes is a popular lawn game for family yards and community parks. Now you'll be able to play using official regulations. The Ohio Horseshoe...

18 of Edgar Allan Poe's dark, strange stories are collected in Poe After Dark. Poe's compelling tales, with eerie atmospheres and weird situations, are as unnerving today as when first written...

Pool Checkers, or Spanish Pool, is a fascinating game with a large and enthusiastic following. Here is an up-to-date, concise and masterly presentation of the scientific game of Spanish Pool. Here...

Australian (traditional), cross-stick, and pin-wheel boomerangs, boomabirds, tumblesticks, lariat throwing and trick roping, whip cracking, tomahawk tossing, log rolling, and blowguns . . . games and...

Primitive Weapons Miscellany collects seven early papers on primitive weapons like boomerangs, harpoons, slings, and blowguns, taken primarily from anthropological journals. These papers show...

"Professor Lasswell has made a most important contribution to the study of war. Basing his essay upon the thesis that modern war must be fought on three fronts, the military, the economic and the...

First published in the wake of World War II (1948), Linebarger's Psychological Warfare is the primary introductory text on the use of overt and covert propaganda, still used today by students and...

Psychological Warfare was first published in 1948, and it became the authoritative text on the subject for decades. Even today, it explains the basic principles of propaganda and psychological...

Rambles with the Switcher is a brief but entertaining treatise on an opening move in checkers, showing how it plays out to advantage, including some of the common variations. This booklet was first...

These two authors penned tales of crime, insanity, and the supernatural. While some stories are lighter in tone (like The Ghost-Ship and The Amazing Hieroglyphics), many leap straight into the...

This anthology collects a wide range of early stories involving dinosaurs and other fossil reptilians come back to life. The short stories include The Last of the Vampires, The Lizard, The Monster of...

A. C. Benson (Arthur Christopher Benson, 1862-1925) was one of three literary brothers (with Robert H. Benson and E. F. Benson), and like them, included fantasy and supernatural stories in his...

This collection of classic supernatural stories ranges from light fantasy to darkly weird, as angels, demons, souls (lost and saved), and a vast spiritual landscape are brought to light (or at least...

Shadows Gothic and Grotesque collects two lesser-known supernatural anthologies from the late 1890s. Ralph Adams Cram's Black Spirits and White includes six stories of haunted and sometimes deadly...

Ever since the first pathways were cleared through Maine's forested wilderness, something we now call Bigfoot has haunted the edges of civilization. The difference between a contemporary...

This third compilation of Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker's ShukerNature blog articles delves into a delectable variety of curious zoological subjects, from the Nandi bear and jungle walruses to striped mantas...

From quagga queries and a dancing worm debacle to hodag horrors and beastly bewilderment of the Gévaudan variety, veteran cryptozoologist Dr Karl Shuker is back with a fourth compendium of cryptid...

David Brewster (1781-1868) wrote this fascinating treatise to illustrate the use of scientific principles by ancient governments and religious orders to frighten and delude the populace for their own...

Cartoonist Walter Berndt (1899-1979) created Smitty as a hard-working office boy, drawing from the experience of his own youth. Smitty was published from 1922 to 1973, and the character slowly...

Smoke ScreenAuthor: Lawrence SaundersPublisher: Coachwhip PublicationsPublication Date: Jan 20, 2025Number of Pages: 192 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1616466006ISBN-13: 9781616466008

Insect collectors, breeders, photographers, and other nature hobbyists will find this book useful when searching for the walkingsticks of North America. The masterful camouflage of stick insects...

People see strange things up North, and John Warms has collected stories of some very strange creatures in his travels throughout Manitoba and beyond. From well-known mystery animals like Sasquatch...

Strange Haunts brings together the short speculative fiction of two masterful storytellers. Eight stories by F. Marion Crawford and four stories by H. B. Marriott Watson are included. Highlights,...

Tropical and sun-drenched climates have their fair share of haunts and high strangeness, whether emanating from ancient landmarks, incongruous cultures, or the ubiquity of human tragedy. Twenty short...

Submarine! (first published during World War II, in 1942) is presented in clear, concise information of undersea craft and their crews. Any information desired, from the story of the development of...