I have loved writing stories and taking photographs and making movies ever since, and have endeavored to do all three. When I was a little older I got a camera for Christmas and became obsessed with photography, and when I was a little older still my friends and I came into possession of a half-broken video camera and began to make our own movies, starring ourselves, using our bedrooms and backyards for sets. I started writing stories when I was young, on an old typewriter that jammed and longhand on legal pads. I grew up on a farm on the Eastern shore of Maryland and also in a little house by the beach in Englewood, Florida where I got very tan and swam every day until I became half fish. Sometimes I tell them with words, sometimes with pictures, often with both. I have loved writing stories and taking photograph Hi, I'm Ransom, and I like to tell stories. Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs: 9780399538544 : Books A companion to the 1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story. Featuring stunning illustrations from world-renowned woodcut artist Andrew Davidson this is a compelling and truly peculiar anthology.Ī perfect gift, this beautifully packaged paperback edition features french flaps, gold patterned endpapers, and a two-color interior with richly detailed woodcuts throughout.Hi, I'm Ransom, and I like to tell stories. Riggs now invites you to share his secrets of peculiar history with a selection of stories, as collected and annotated by Millard Nullings, ward of Miss Peregrine and scholar of all things peculiar. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar-the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops-first introduced by Ransom Riggs in his #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales.