A collection of sixteen stories introduces a host of strange, wondrous beings that have never existed anywhere but in the imagination, with stories from Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. Nesbit.
Neil Gaiman. “Hey!” brought Ferd into the tiny room. “What's the matter?” Ferd asked. Oscar pointed to a drawer. “Remember that time you claimed there were no safety pins here? Look—whole gah- damn drawer is full of 'em.
A traveling artist takes the reader through a collection of illustrations of fantastical hybrid creatures.
Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman
In an alternate London where magical creatures are preserved in a museum, two people find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception, and danger.
When a griffin shows great fondness for the sculpture of himself above the great door of the church, and equal admiration for the Minor Canon, the townspeople fear that the terrifying creature will live among them forever.
In 2006 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, four armed men broke into the home of an Afghan headmaster and teacher named Malim Abdul Habib.59 The four men gathered Habib's wife and children together, forcing them to watch as they stabbed Habib ...
For background on the bestiaries, see the introductions of Richard Barber, ed. and trans., Bestiary (1992; repr., Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2013), 7–15, and Ann Payne's Medieval Beasts (London: British Library, 1990), 9–11; ...
Unnatural Creatures
This imaginative guide uses first hand accounts, historical records, works of literature and art, and the imaginative insights of the scientifically trained author to detail the evolution, habits, life cycles,...
From the author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring comes this incredible story of two remarkable women and their voyage of discovery.