Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse

Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse
Author: Michael Gerber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005
Genre: Magicians
ISBN: 9780575076921

Barry Trotter is pretty disreputable and unpleasant. Imagine what he was like as a teenager. Here's the beginning of the whole sorry tale. Did Barry and Ermine do it? (Their homwork, that is.) How exactly did Lon end up with a hole in his head that whistles when the wind blows? Was Lord Valumart always that crass? And where did that ridiculous German accent come from? As funny and twisted as the first two books, BARRY TROTTER AND THE DEAD HORSE is also as affectionate towards JK Rowling's originals. This has lead to the books gaining a devoted following amongst fans of Harry Potter as well as being a welcome antidote for the over-egging (eeuwww) of the boy wizard. A process that we're not a part of at all. Oh no. Not even a tiny bit.

Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody

Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody
Author: Michael Gerber
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2004
Genre: Schools
ISBN: 9780143002888

The Hogwash School for Wizards is the most famous school in the wizarding world and Barry Trotter is its most famous pupil. It's been that way ever since J.G. Rollins' Barry Trotter and the Philosopher's Sconebroke publishing records worldwide. But now disaster looms. The movie Barry Trotter and the Inevitable Attempt to Cash-Inhas gone into final production and the marketing machine at Wagner Bros. is going into overdrive. Hogwash is going to be submerged under a tide of souvenir-crazed Muddle fans, torn apart and sold on eBuy, stone by mossy stone. The movie must be stopped. Barry, Ermine Cringer and Lon Measly must find a way to defeat the most powerful force of grasping sleazoids the world has ever known: Hollywood.

Barry Trotter and the Unimpressive Gift Box

Barry Trotter and the Unimpressive Gift Box
Author: Michael Gerber
Publisher: Gollancz
Total Pages:
Release: 2004-10-21
Genre: Magicians
ISBN: 9780575076587

Contains BARRY TROTTER AND THE SHAMELESS PARODY, BARRY TROTTER AND THE UNNECESSARY SEQUEL and the all new BARRY TROTTER AND THE DEAD HORSE.Supplied in a high-tech biodegrable, epoxy resin fixed, folded paper-pulp display case (cardboard box), these three books tell the ghastly tale of Barry Trotter, Lon Measley and Ermine Cringer. Amusingly, the story starts when barry is 22, goes on to tell what happened when he was 39 and then, because we couldn't think what do next, zips back, via a supremely unlikely plot device, to when he was 9.Laugh! at Lord Valumart's bizarrely inept attempts to kill Barry.Wonder! just how Bumblemore got to be headmaster.Sigh! when you realise that it isn't a Harry Potter book after all.What? You've only just worked that out? Oh dear, oh dear.

The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales
Author: Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1965-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780813101361

" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.

Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel

Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel
Author: Michael Gerber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2003
Genre: Wizards
ISBN: 9780670041619

Like a chronic skin condition, the world's most irritating wizard is back! Barry Trotter, now 38 (going on 11), has returned to the Hogwash School for Wizardry and Witchcrap. He and his wife, Ermine Cringer, are there to deposit their Muddle-loving son Nigel, 11 (going on 38), and about as magical as a plastic fork. Just as Barry and Ermine are set to leave, Headmister Dorco Malfeasance dies. Who cares - nobody much like Dorco anyway. Barry and Ermine are installed as interim heads of the School, and kick off a carnival of arrested development. But then, in the sort of plot twist that could only happen in a cheap novel designed to leech off a massive pop culture phenomenon, Barry develops youthenasia. He begins a steady march backwards in age and reliving the horrors of adolescence (including the Acne of Fire) may not be the end of it . . .

Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parodies

Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parodies
Author: Michael Gerber
Publisher: Orion
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2006
Genre: Magicians
ISBN: 9780575078949

Brought together for the first time in one bumper volume, here are Michael Gerbers hilarious parodies, Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody, Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel and Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse. Relive the whole ghastly tale of Barry Trotter, Lon Measley and Ermine Cringer. Amusingly, the story starts when Barry is 22 and shiftless, goes on to tell what happened when he was 39 and pathetic and then, because we couldn't think what do next but needed to crank out one more book, zips back, via a supremely unlikely plot device, to when he was 9 and just plain vile.Laugh! at Lord Valumart's bizarrely inept attempts to kill Barry. Wonder! just how Bumblemore got to be headmaster. Heave! at Lons toilet habits. Sigh! when you realise that it isn't a Harry Potter book after all. What? You've only just worked that out? And now youve bought this book? And you cant find the receipt? Oh dear, oh dear.

Frost

Frost
Author: Kate Avery Ellison
Publisher: Kate Avery Ellison
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-03-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: