Apart from cryptozoological beings, The Ningyo also features shades of adventure fiction, westerns, and H.P. Lovecraft's supernatural horror.
That is so, and the curious quality of the awe that many of us feel — fervent, awkward, tinged with guilt — has much to do with the disquieting features of the military adventure in which those sacrifices were made, two in particular.
The cops, the narrow escapes, the pieces of good luck, the sparkling blue eyes, the irreverent laughter were features of all their adventures.
Knight featured in a number of adventure stories set in the 1930s (when the stories were written).
The Villa di Colonnata has seven acres of land, known as the "Field of Miracles", which features in The Adventures of Pinocchio when a gardener famously finds a hoard of coins.
A question and answer department, "Cross-Trails", was begun, in imitation of a similar feature in Adventure, the most successful pulp magazine of the day, and the format change may also have been done to increase the resemblance of the two magazines, along with a change to the appearance of The Thrill Book 's contents page to resemble that of Adventure.
I knew Pee-wee primarily from his debut movie, "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," Tim Burton's breakthrough film, and was disappointed that the stage show featured little in the way of adventure, which is to say plot.
I was 11 at the time, my imagination nourished by a steady diet of adventure stories featuring such outsized heroes as John Carter, Man of Mars and Doc Savage, Man of Bronze.
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie was the second in a trilogy of films based on the children's animated television series Rugrats, which features the adventures of a group of toddlers.
The game has many of the classic features of conventional online fantasy adventures, but they have been Austenified.
So throughout this next month, we'll be featuring a trio of adventures: my road trip updates here on Huffington Post and my sister's and niece's blogs on my website.
