Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collections is a monthly bookazine release of three or more very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, scams, wildlife, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Collections are small groups of similar travel tales making their way into ebooks in The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales eBook Series. Say, for example, you are interested in the subject of pickpockets. You'll read in the ‘Collection’ on pickpocketing several travel stories about how several people dealt with pickpockets in their travels. So, are you maybe Interested in specific travel stories about France, African safaris, safety and security overseas, mystical experiences, rogues and characters, ghosts and the paranormal, the Cold War Soviet Union, 'from hell' travel tales, or what have you? Eventually, there will be up to several hundred Collections on an extensive variety of very interesting travel subjects and themes to choose from. Simply select any Collections that suit your specific travel interests. “You wouldn't believe the incredible stories people have told me about their travels.” These are—simply stated—great stories! Travel Tales Collections No. 4 Nov 2014: Spooky Tales 1 Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, Spooky Tales 1, features a bunch of bizarre and strange tales of the paranormal that can happen to you in your travels. Strange things do happen, and mostly they are the usual, typical, expected sorts of normal experiences. But there are also those unexpected, strange surprises that pop up now and again in your journeys. The Travel Tales Collection, Spooky Tales 1, features stories of witch doctors, and haunted airplanes, hotels, and cemeteries, such as, “The Witch Doctor,” “Psychic Willie,” and more. Just because you’ve never experienced the paranormal at home, let alone in your travels, doesn’t mean it cannot happen to you sometime when you least expect it! The Travel Tales Collection, Spooky Tales 1, is part of Michael Brein’s Collections travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. Travel Tales Collections are groups of three or more very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, pickpocketing, scams, safety and security in travel, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Eventually, several hundred Collections on all sorts of specific travel subjects, themes, and countries will be available on all the major eReaders. Future Collections and other ebooks will include additional travel stories on the bizarre, the strange, and the paranormal.

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, Close Calls & Great Escapes 1, features a bunch of frightening and horrific tales of fear and panic that can most certainly happen to you in your travels. Scary things do happen occasionally, and mostly your travels are the usual, typical, expected sorts of normal non-anxious experiences. But there are also those unexpected, strange and dangerous surprises that pop up now and again in your journeys. The Travel Tales Collection, Close Calls & Great Escapes 1, features stories of panic, dangerous men, and menacing Gypsies, such as in, Men with Machetes, Bad Day at Red Frog, Airline Hijacking, and more. Just because you’ve never experienced danger at home, let alone in your travels, doesn’t mean it cannot happen to you sometime when you least expect it! The Travel Tales Collection, Close Calls & Great Escapes 1, is part of Michael Brein’s Collections travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. Travel Tales Collections are groups of very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, pickpocketing, scams, safety and security in travel, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Eventually, several hundred Collections on all sorts of specific travel subjects, themes, and countries will be available on all the major eReaders. Future Collections and other ebooks will include additional travel stories on dangerous close calls and lucky great escapes.

The ‘Travel Tales Collection, Airplane Stories,’ No. 9, April 2015, is part of Michael Brein’s ‘Collections’ travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. ‘Travel Tales Collections’ are groups of very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, pickpocketing, scams, safety and security in travel, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Eventually, several hundred ‘Collections’ on all sorts of specific travel subjects, themes, and countries will be available on all the major eReaders. An airline story is in the news today! And so it goes. There’s hardly a day now that an airline incident of some sort or another is not in the news. We’re taking a lot closer look at air travel these days than ever before. Therefore, as regards the psychology of travel, we should take a much closer look at what actually happens on airplanes. And so, in The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, that's exactly what I do. Air-travel-life stories include the full range of the human air travel experience, from pre-boarding incidents to arrivals; from the cabin to the loo; from the public and private lives of airline personnel as well as passengers—from the pilots to the stews to you—from that which makes us laugh to that which makes us cry, as well as, unfortunately, to that which creates abject fear and terror in the skies. Air travel is now more in the public eye than ever before. Thus, it is no wonder now that regarding the experience of traveling in the skies—like any other aspect of travel—we are not only more circumspect than ever before—we are, on closer view, now much more aware of how air travel is now seen to elicit the full range of the human experience. And in this one particular unique microcosmic window of scrutiny we see that air-travel is but one unique travel environment in a cornucopia of many others, and one that is neither unimportant, insignificant, indistinct, nor independent with respect to the overall experience of travel. Love it, hate it, or simply endure it, the lure of traveling in the skies, whether as just a means to a place or as an end in and of itself, the activity of flying, per se—airplane travel stories not only endure, they are on the increase. Whether you've survived a crash, been bombed by terrorists, been part and parcel of other scares and frights, been harassed upon departure or on arrival, or even laughed yourself stupid on a flight, your tales are memorable, and it is my personal mission that some of them are repeated here! Introduction to Travel Tales of Airplanes: Terror in the Skies! Part 1 Travel Tales of Airplanes: Terror in the Skies! is divided into two parts simply because there is so much material. Part 1 appears here in the current Travel Tales Collection issue No. 9 Apr 2015 and serves as a general introduction to this subject matter. Part 2 The unabridged, expanded forthcoming ebook Travel Tales of Airplanes: Terror in the Skies, part of The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series, is a larger volume and includes both Parts 1 and 2. The travel stories in Part 1 consist mainly of the personal air travel tales of Michael Brein (me), the author, plus those of a few other contributors. The travel stories in Part 2 are, largely, the air travel stories of world travelers and adventurers whom I’ve encountered and interviewed all throughout my travels over the last four decades to 125 countries. Mostly, your own air travel will typically be exciting, interesting, and without incident, but odd things can and do happen to you at almost any turn along the way in your travels, and air travel is no exception. Unfortunately, the restricted, constricted, and microcosmic environment of the airplane lends itself sometimes to a variety of episodes illustrating the vagaries of the human temperament and behavior that rear their ugliness on airplanes from time to time, whereby air passengers and crew sometimes act and behave in ways that are often atypical and different from how we normally would behave at home. I hope only peaceful and laughable events happen to you in your air travels. I sincerely hope that the negative travel tales of airplanes do not happen to you in your own travels. If something interesting happens to you in your air travels, you deserve to also be in these pages! Got an interesting travel tale for The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series? Please contact Michael Brein at [email protected]. Note: Some stories may be repeated in other eBooks in the series depending on the countries and subjects covered.

Scary personal accounts, oral histories, and memoirs by native Hawaiians and frequent travelers to the islands.

Overflowing with true supernatural encounters, these tales, told from a first-person perspective, are guaranteed to cause chicken-skin!

If you're a fan of ghost stories and camping, then you know there's nothing quite like sharing spooky tales around the campfire with friends. The thrill of being in the great outdoors and the chill of a scary story can make for an unforgettable experience. In this book, we'll be exploring some of the best ghostly camping tales and adventures. From hilarious mishaps to unexpected encounters with the paranormal, we'll take you on a journey through the woods and beyond. So, sit back, grab a marshmallow, and get ready for some ghostly fun.

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collections is a monthly bookazine release of three very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, scams, wildlife, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Collections are small groups of similar travel tales making their way into ebooks in The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales eBook Series. Say, for example, you are interested in the subject of pickpockets. You'll read in the 'Collection' on pickpocketing several travel stories about how several people dealt with pickpockets in their travels. So, are you maybe Interested in specific travel stories about France, African safaris, safety and security overseas, mystical experiences, rogues and characters, ghosts and the paranormal, the Cold War Soviet Union, 'from hell' travel tales, or what have you? Eventually, there will be up to several hundred Collections on an extensive variety of very interesting travel subjects and themes to choose from. Simply select any Collections that suit your specific travel interests. You wouldn’t believe the incredible stories people have told me about their travels. These are—simply stated—great stories! Travel Tales Collections No. 2 Sep 2014: The USSR 1 Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, The USSR 1, features three wild travel tales of unbelievable things that could have happened to you during the old Cold War Soviet Union communist era. These are—simply stated great stories! Of course, there are always the usual, typical, expected sorts of Eastern Europe (a la the Cold War) experiences. But there are also those incredible unexpected surprises that become all the more memorable just because they are so unique! The Travel Tales Collection, The USSR 1, features three Cold War, communist era Soviet Union stories of international intrigue in the form of spies, the KGB, the Secret Police, and even bugged hotel rooms. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you! The Travel Tales Collection, The USSR 1, is part of Michael Brein’s Collections travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. Travel Tales Collections are groups of three or more very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, pickpocketing, scams, safety and security in travel, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Eventually, several hundred Collections on all sorts of specific travel subjects, themes, and countries will be available on the Kindle. Future Collections of Soviet Union and Russia travel stories will include additional travel stories on both the earlier Soviet Union era as well as the post Cold War Russian Federation.

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collections is a monthly bookazine release of three very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, scams, wildlife, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Collections are small groups of similar travel tales making their way into ebooks in The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales eBook Series. Say, for example, you are interested in the subject of pickpockets. You'll read in the 'Collection' on pickpocketing several travel stories about how several people dealt with pickpockets in their travels. So, are you maybe Interested in specific travel stories about France, African safaris, safety and security overseas, mystical experiences, rogues and characters, ghosts and the paranormal, the Cold War Soviet Union, 'from hell' travel tales, or what have you? Eventually, there will be up to several hundred Collections on an extensive variety of very interesting travel subjects and themes to choose from. Simply select any Collections that suit your specific travel interests. You wouldn't believe the incredible stories people have told me about their travels. These are--simply stated--great stories! Travel Tales Collections No. 1 Aug 2014: African Safaris 1 Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, African Safaris 1, features several wildlife tales, including Cape buffaloes, errant hippos, and even a wayward hyena named “Spot.” These are—simply stated--great stories! Travel Tales Collections, African Safaris 1, is the very first of the Collections series and contains three among the best travel stories about African safaris from Michael’s huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. Of course, there are always the usual, typical, expected sorts of African Safari experiences. But there are also those incredible unexpected surprises that become all the more memorable just because they are so unique! Future Collections of African safari travel stories will include additional wildlife encounters as well as other interesting aspects of African safaris.

Since 1996, Rick Carroll's collections of true spooky stories have fascinated readers of all ages with their descriptions of encounters with the supernatural in Hawai'i. Now, 45 of over 200 published stories have been selected for this best of the best edition. Relive or experience anew spine-tingling accounts from all the islands.

Book 1: Unravel the art of storytelling with “How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays by Mark Twain.” Twain's collection of essays provides keen insights into the craft of storytelling, sprinkled with his signature humor and wit. Explore the nuances of narrative technique as Twain shares his thoughts on the art of spinning a compelling tale. Book 2: Venture into the realms of mystery and the supernatural with “The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain.” Twain's short stories delve into the mysterious and fantastical, showcasing his versatility as a storyteller. Each tale offers a glimpse into Twain's imagination, blending the mundane with the extraordinary. Book 3: Embark on a humorous and insightful journey through Europe and the Holy Land with “The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.” Twain's travel narrative captures the humor and observations of a group of American tourists exploring foreign lands. Filled with satire and cultural commentary, this work reflects Twain's keen eye for the absurdities of travel and human nature.