A man runs for his life from the promise of death held by trees; a lost VHS tape offers footage of a lost, grisly history; a diaspora clings to magical shards of homeand more in this collection of genre fiction by authors from across the Canadian Prairies.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Based on the author's thesis. Part I was previously published in 1940 by the American Museum of Natural History. This revised edition includes two additional comparative sections.

Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.