30 Wild Folktales and Legends: Stories Too Strange to Forget

30 stories · 30 original illustrations · An Incoprea long read

A village hires a musician and loses its children. A woman discovers that her beautiful new husband is a skull wearing borrowed body parts. A woman goes into the marsh to investigate its monsters, and the monsters bury her: unfortunately for everyone, she is the Moon. These are the kinds of stories that make modern horror look restrained.

These thirty retellings range from place-bound legends and old folktales to modern urban legends and a living Māori ancestral tradition. Each follows an identified version, with sources close at hand. The interpretations offer one reading of the stories rather than a single meaning for an entire culture.

30 Almost Unbelievable True Stories: Survival Against the Odds

30 stories · 30 original illustrations · An Incoprea long read

A hand reaches out inside a ship on the ocean floor. A teenager survives a falling aircraft and then has to walk out of the Amazon. A doctor in Antarctica discovers that the only available surgeon is himself. These are the kinds of incidents that can make a film seem implausible—until the records show that something very like them actually happened.

Thirty extraordinary escapes, grounded in rescue footage, museum collections, medical papers and survivor accounts. Where a famous detail is disputed or known chiefly through a memoir, the telling keeps that distinction visible.