Bosco walking among the trees.

A Bear's Life

Welcome to another adventure from the Thousand Acre Woods. A place on the edge of Trollheim deep within the mysterious NJ Pine Belt! Tales Chronicled by Christopher Jonathan Hulton...That's me! Today's tale, Bosco tells us how wonderful life is!

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It's different being a house bear. I mean when I'm walking through the Pines, I'm king of the forest. I'm huge, like Paul Bunyan huge! I stand taller than the biggest buck.

But.

But when you're a house bear to a family of Trolls, you're no more than a lapdog. They are so huge, their house has cat holes—though it does keep the mice out…I can sit at normal picnic tables, but here I nap under them.

Cat jumping off table to left and Bosco sitting under it with another cat behind him at a cat hole in the wall.

When their daughter was little, before she learned to shape-shift, she dragged her feet when I gave her pony rides.

Angroboda riding Bosco through a surreal woods..

In the wild, I eat a bushel of blueberries, but theirs are as big as pumpkins.

Bosco walking in woods with a bushell of blueberries in front of him with one that spilt out.

It's sort of deflating.

Bosco sitting under table holding a giant blueberry with both hands..

Now Bjorn is great. He has a strong, good bear's name—Bjorn. Only Beowulf would be cooler! He plays fetch with me all the time. He throws me fire hydrants, railroad ties, anvils, and anchors.

Bjorn tossing anvil with Bosco waiting by the fence behind him.

In the summer, we wade through lakes and jump bridges.

BHosco jumping over lake with Bjorn walking through towering above the bridge with Hulton on his shoulder.

Helgi, she is the best cook. She knows how to cook in bear proportions! Her fruit tarts are just nothing short of pur-fection! Did I say the house is overrun by cats…I love lazy Sunday mornings when we lay in bed and she scratches my ears when I'm sprawled out on her chest.

Bjorn with tart in his hand and one by the cat hole. He is still sitting under the table.

Now Grams is back. I help her dig her roots and sniff out her herbs for her remedies. She knows where all the secret honey locust trees are. They have delicious pods filled with honey goodness and spikes all over to scratch on.

Grams picking herbs with Bosco scratching his back on a honey locust tree with pods around his feet.

Gramps and Karl. What is there to say? They are like watching a train wreck. Great fun. Sometimes they go too far, then I'm around to growl at anyone they started trouble with.

Gramps and Karl sitting at bar seen from the back with Bosco growling behind them.

Oh, they can handle themselves, but if anyone knew how they could, they wouldn't be invited back to any of the taverns. Growing through the roof and stepping on drunks don't make you many barkeep friends. So the proprietors believe a growling bear is more manageable. 

Then every Saturday, I play poker with the Jersey Devils. Gast and Nis, sometimes Old Scratch joins us, but he cheats more than me. Well, I don't cheat; I just bare my teeth a little when I raise on a bad hand. But he just cheats outright! I prefer it when he sticks to the fiddle.

Then there are the adventures with Nobbi, but those adventures are too grand to share in a few sentences. Oh, the paisley…. 

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We are releasing our second collection of Trollheim stories in print, named Trolling About. It will be available on this website at www.salemhousepress.com and Barnes & Noble. Pick up your copy today, pretty please with sugar on top...

 

Trolling About Cover with Gripping Beast deign with a Troll, a boar, and bear.

 

Make sure you pick up the first collection of tales too...

 

Cover of Trollheim: Book One with Karl stealing a chicken, Helgi leaning over roost, Bosco milling about in the distance, Gramps towering over the trees and the Nattrolls house with Hulton sitting in front with Bjorn walking by in Trollheim within th Nj Pine Barrens.

 

 

If you like the tales from Trollheim you will love Trolls: A Compendium!

by Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin and
Christopher Jonathan Hulton

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Fiction/ Illustrated Fantasy/ Mythology / Scandinavian Myth/ Norse Sagas / Scandinavian Folk Lore / Coffee Table Book

Paperback: $45 | Hardcover: $65 | PDF eBook $5
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Following the Harry N. Abrams, Inc. tradition of the series that created Brian Froud's and Alan Lee's Faeries and Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet, we present you with what would have been the next book in the series: Trolls: A Compendium. Trolls—do you think you know what they are? Could you be wrong?

Trolls within Scandinavian lore, myth, saga, fantasy, and folktales are actually anything magical within our northern neighbor's culture. Richly illustrated in this volume are the tales of faeries, dwarves, nissen, huldras, gods, Jotuns, draugar, ghosts, and more. Also, this book introduces our readers to the world of Trollheim, populated by Nattrolls that escaped the 17th-century Swedish colony within the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Narrated by Christopher Jonathan Hulton, who lives in the Thousand Acre Woods just after the Civil War, their tales are filled with Native American lore and tales of their neighbor, the Jersey Devil.

Preview: Google Books

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Paperback: $45.00

Hardcover: $65.00

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