Culture of the United Kingdom Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname "Nessie" since the 1950s. The leprechaun figures large in Irish folklore. A mischievous fairy-type creature in emerald green clothing who when not playing tricks spends all its time busily making shoes, the leprechaun is said to have a pot of gold hidden at the end of the rainbow, and if ever captured by a human it has the magical power to grant three wishes in exchange for release. In mythology, English fairy
A Home at the End of the World A Home at the End of the World A Home at the End of the World is a 1990 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Michael Cunningham. The book is narrated in the first person, with the narrator changing in each chapter. Bobby and Jonathan are the main narrators, but several chapters are narrated by Alice, Jonathan's mother, and Clare. An excerpt from "A Home at the End of the World" was published in "The New Yorker", chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989, and featured on NPR's Selected Shorts. Bobby had grown up in a home in suburban Cleveland,