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They stalk their prey from deep in the menacing shadows, poised and ready to strike at the penultimate moment. Their victims unexpecting, unaware, until they wake in dark rooms, dank basements, or on chilly floors stained with the rotting blood of other hapless victims. The stench fills their nostrils and permeates their pores, the bile rising up in their burning throats. They scream and try to escape, but all attempts are futile. Fear dances like spiders down their spines as they hear ominous footsteps approaching — their eyes spread wide in horror as they realize the end is near.

Stan Armstrong dedicated his entire life to science. Branded as a maverick and a risk-taker by his colleagues, his unorthodox experiments and outlandish theories of time and space resulted in loss of funding and, ultimately, his termination from tenure at the university where he’d spent his entire career. Stan’s insatiable quest to explore extreme hypotheses and to prove the unproven were matched only by his neurotic lust to peel back the mysterious layers of time and space to expose the hidden secrets of the universe.

Sometimes, the dead do come back. Sometimes, they crave your flesh...and sometimes, they desire your very soul, but they aren’t the only thing you have to fear. You don’t believe in what you can’t see, yet something is there, watching, waiting. You can feel its unholy intentions deep down in the marrow of your bones. You don’t know where it came from, but you know with every fiber of your being that it is not from this earth, and as you feel its gaze searing through your skin, you know the end just might be near.

Where would you go if you had a spaceship? Would you explore new and fun planets? Make new friends? Or just fly around so you don’t have to do your chores? See where you could go if you had a spaceship.

Can a stegosaurus learn to fly? How did the allosaurus do on her first day at work? What happened to the donphosaurus who wanted to be big? How do velociraptor families work together? And what happened to the caveman with a pet dino? It's time for Nano Adventures—Dinosaurs featuring 12 rhyming prehistoric stories!

Why shouldn't you trust fairies? What would it be like to have a werewolf for a pet? Do dolphins and mermaids get along? Does Bigfoot make the best coffee? Get ready for the next installment of our beloved series, Nano Adventures - Mythical Creatures featuring 12 magical, mystical, and whimsical rhyming tales!

What was it like to see a Shakespeare play while he was alive? Will humans ever live on Mars? What was life like aboard a real pirate ship? Did people really strike gold in the California Gold Rush? Get ready for the next Nano Adventures—Time Travel featuring 12 time-twisting tales!