Thursday, December 4, 2025

NEWSLETTER - December 2025

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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As we begin our 31st year, we've been hard at work improving your online experience with Hungry Tiger Press—improving our shopping cart and shipping calculator.
If you're looking for an Ozzy holiday gift, what better choice than our beautiful paperback edition of L. Frank Baum's Life and Aventure of Santa Claus, featuring green pages, red running titles and beautifully illustrated in full color by Eric Shanower? We've also recently acquired all the remaining stock of Ruth Plumly Thompson's Curious Cruise of Captain Santa, illustrated by John R. Neill. And with our Holiday Special, you can get both books for 20% off!
And for those who need more wickedness in their lives - we've obtained all remaining copies of The Wicked Witch of Oz by Rachel Cosgrove Payes, sumptuously illustrated by Eric Shanower. For more grown-up wickedness, check out our great new collection of Bram Stoker stories, Dracula's Guest and Other Deadly Tales, illustrated by Eric Shanower in creepiest black-and white!
We also have a very limited supply of the first nine Oz books by Ruth Plumly Thompson, as printed by Del Rey in 1985. All are first printings in like-new condition. Only $9.99 each!
Lastly, we have only two copies left of the Marvel Comics adaptation of The Road to Oz, adapted by Eric Shanower and drawn by Skottie Young. Eric will sign and draw a small sketch in each copy purchased.
Don't forget that every month we bring you stories and verse by the Royal Historians of Oz--for free! Click here to read them online at Hungry Tiger Tales.
Check out our newest listings below—we also have several great new books coming for you in 2026.
We're doing our best to earn our stripes!
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Get both L. Frank Baum's Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, beautifully illustrated by Eric Shanower in full-color—and Ruth Plumly Thompson's The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa, illustrated by John R. Neill, for 20% off—now thru Christmas Day. Both books are also available separately. Check it out!

What could be better than a biography of Santa Claus written by L. Frank Baum! Our beautiful new paperback edition of the timeless Christmas classic includes Baum’s charming sequel story “A Kidnapped Santa Claus,” presenting Santa’s entire merry history.
Award-winning illustrator Eric Shanower brings Santa’s story to life in twelve lovely full-color full-page paintings in this delightful new edition. Specially redesigned for this new Hungry Tiger Press edition, the handsome volume features light green paper, colorful chapter headings, and several brand-new illustrations. Check it out!




Very Limited Supply!
We just acquired a supply of the first nine Ruth Plumly Thompson Oz books as issued by Del Rey in the mid-1980s. These “like new” copies may be forty years old - but they look like they were printed yesterday! Each are first printings of the Del Rey paperbacks, featuring the now beloved cover paintings by Michael Herring. Check it out!
We're offering them for only $9.99 each! While Supplies Last!

Eric Shanower’s 42 moody illustrations bring new chills to five of the deadliest tales by Bram Stoker, author of the classic vampire story Dracula.
A mother’s fury erupts in grisly revenge in “The Squaw.” Weird rites cling to a scene of murder in Stoker’s recently rediscovered tale “Gibbet Hill.” What’s that scratching inside the walls of “The Judge’s House”? Silent jealousy lurks behind the scenes while death takes center stage in “A Star Trap.” In the title story, “Dracula’s Guest,” unsuspecting Jonathan Harker suffers a foretaste of vampiric terror. Soaked in blood and feeding on fright, these tales beg to be read alone and late at night. Check it out!

Wicked, indeed!

by Rachel Cosgrove Payes - Illustrated by Eric Shanower
The Wicked Witch of the South is awake again after a hundred-year nap, and now she’s plotting revenge against Dorothy Gale! But Dorothy and Percy, the giant white rat, are determined to thwart these plans of the last and wickedest Wicked Witch in Oz. 
The large hardcover is bound in red cloth stamped in white, features two-tone pictorial endpapers, and is profusely illustrated by Eric Shanower, who brings the Wicked Witch and our Ozzy friends to life in his most intricate pen-and-ink style.
This is the original printing of the book and each copy will be signed by Eric Shanower.  Check it out!

Happy Holidays!
Copyright © 2025 David Maxine. All rights reserved.

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Happy Holidays - A Santa Special!

Happy Holidays!

What better way to get into the holiday spirt than snuggling down with a book before your long winter's nap! And what better holiday books than L. Frank Baum's Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, beautifully illustrated by Eric Shanower.

And then setting sail with Ruth Plumly Thompson for her cozy holiday tale The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa illustrated by John R. Neill.

And until Christmas day 2025, you can order both books together at a special reduced price of 20% off.

The perfect gift to yourself, or more importantly, a gift to a young friend who has yet to read these two holiday treasures.


The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus


What could be better than a biography of Santa Claus written by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz! Did you ever wonder how Santa Claus came to be? Where the first Christmas tree came from? How Santa carved the very first toy? Every answer is here!

This beautiful new paperback edition of the timeless Christmas classic includes Baum’s charming sequel story “A Kidnapped Santa Claus,” presenting Santa’s entire merry history.

Award-winning illustrator Eric Shanower brings Santa’s story to life in twelve lovely full-color full-page paintings in this delightful new edition. Specially redesigned for this new Hungry Tiger Press edition, the handsome volume features light green paper, colorful chapter headings, and several brand new illustrations – 171 pages!

Illustrator Eric Shanower will sign each copy ordered through Hungry Tiger Press. If you would like a personalized inscription, please specify it in the Notes section during Checkout.

The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa

This black-and-white facsimile edition was published in 1985 by The International Wizard of Oz Club and features a new foreword by Douglas G. Greene. Hungry Tiger Press has secured all of the remaining copies, and we are delighted to offer this charming holiday book to a new and wider audience.

The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa, a work first published in 1926, contains some racial and ethnic references that may be offensive to modern readers. Readers should be aware, however, that these do not reflect the attitudes of Hungry Tiger Press and that they merely reflect the language, and its usage, of the early twentieth century.

Copyright © 2025 by David Maxine. All rights reserved. 

Monday, November 17, 2025

Dracula's Guest and Other Deadly Tales

Come sink your fangs into our latest release, Dracula's Guest and Other Deadly Tales, a new collection of five terrifying tales by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula— illustrated with over forty creepy and intricate pen-and-ink illustrations by Eric Shanower.

A mother’s fury erupts in grisly revenge in “The Squaw.” Weird rites cling to a scene of notorious murder in Stoker’s recently rediscovered tale “Gibbet Hill.” What’s that scratching inside the walls of “The Judge’s House”? Silent jealousy lurks behind the scenes while death takes center stage in “A Star Trap.” And in the title story, “Dracula’s Guest,” unsuspecting Jonathan Harker suffers a foretaste of vampiric terror. Soaked in blood and feeding on fright, these tales beg to be read alone and late at night.

Every copy ordered directly from us will be signed by the illustrator.

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Dracula's Guest and Other Deadly Tales

by Bram Stoker - Illustrated by Eric Shanower

6" x 9" Trade Paperback, 122 pages

Illustration by Eric Shanower from Dracula's Guest and Other Deadly Tales

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