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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The master, writing with sometime collaborator Guerrero, compiled 82 one- and two-page descriptions of everything from "The Borametz" (a Chinese "plant shaped like a lamb, covered with golden fleece") to "The Simurgh" ("an immortal bird that makes its nest in the tree of science") and "The Zaratan" (a particularly cunning whale) in An Anthology of Fantastic Zoology in 1954. He added 34 more (and illustrations) for a 1967 edition, giving it the present...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A story following an old woman and a young soldier in a war-torn country as they seek a mythical creature called the Rain Heron"--
In the remote frontier of a country devastated by war, Ren survives by hunting, farming, trading, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. Then an army unit, led by a young female soldier, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron: a mythical,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Iceland, a country of striking and sometimes surreal beauty, is matched by its rich and extensive folklore. Since time immemorial, Icelanders have told tales of strange encounters and experiences they have had while on their travels. From the extraordinary Finngálkn, a crossbreed of man and beast to the Kráki, a giant octopus that preys on trawlers and oil rigs, Icelandic folklore is riddled with fantastic tales that expound natural phenomenon and...
Author
Series
Dark-Hunter novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Wren Tigarian, a blend of snow leopard and white tiger, has found the woman he wants, the socialite daughter of a U.S. Senator. To claim her, he must fight not only the humans who will never accept him, but also the Were-Hunters, who want him dead for endangering their world.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A young spy who takes solitary walks near the lake to regain her mental balance, Elísabet encounters two mythical creatures--half women, half swan--who draw her into their quest to reproduce, causing her to reckon with the consequences of her involvement with these strange swan-like beings and her own past.
Author
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
"We all know 'there's no such thing as monsters, ' but our imaginations tell us otherwise. From the mythical beasts of ancient Greece to the hormonal vampires of the Twilight saga, monsters have captivated us for millennia. Matt Kaplan, a noted science journalist and monster-myth enthusiast, employs an entertaining mix of cutting-edge research and a love of lore to explore the history behind these fantastical fictions and our hardwired obsession with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Mary Dunlavy didn't intend to become a professional babysitter. Of course, she didn't intend to die, either, or to become a crossroads ghost. As a babysitting ghost, she's been caring for the Price family for four generations, and she's planning to keep doing the job for the better part of forever. With her first charge finally back from her decades-long cross-dimensional field trip, with a long-lost husband and adopted daughter in tow, it's time...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A misfit crew races across the galaxy to prevent the genocide of magical creatures, in this unique science fiction debut. Having magical powers makes you less than human, a resource to be exploited. Half-unicorn Gary Cobalt is sick of slavery, captivity, and his horn being ground down to power faster-than-light travel. When he's finally free, all he wants is to run away in his ancestors' stone ship. Instead, Captain Jenny Perata steals the ship out...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler's follow up to Last Tango, a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy in the tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of Last Tango, is the first of his kind-an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of fantastic beasts and beings, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Fantasy Creatures and Characters is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring artists, illustrators, and animators for fantasy, gaming, and augmented or virtual reality--anyone who's seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills and create compelling mythological marvels." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
All known folklores brim with visions of looming and ferocious monsters, often in the role of adversaries to great heroes. But while heroes have been closely studied by mythologists, monsters have been neglected, even though they are equally important as pan-human symbols and reveal similar insights into ways the mind works. In this book, the author explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Just when Sarah Zellaby, adopted Price cousin and telepathic ambush predator, thought that things couldn't get worse, she's had to go and prove herself wrong. After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, she has undergone a transformation called an instar, reaching back to her Apocritic origins to metamorphize. While externally the same, she is internally much more powerful, and much more difficult to control.Even by herself. After...
15) The bone mother
Author
Pub. Date
[2017
Language
English
Description
Three neighboring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind--and with the ruthless Night Police descending upon their sanctuary--they tell their stories and confront their destinies. Eerie and unsettling like the best fairy tales, these incisor-sharp portraits of ghosts, witches, sirens, and seers--and the mortals...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2315. Poppy, a young boy who speaks the language of wild things, travels east to the Sierra Nevada with the wheeled and elephantine beast Lyoobov. He's seeking answers to the mysteries of his birth, and the origins of the fallen world in which he lives. Up in the glacial peaks, among a strange, mountainous people, a juniper tree takes Poppy deep into her roots and shows him the true stories of the people who made his world, people he...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald's growing legion of followers. But with the stakes so high, how long can Dumbledore remain on...
18) Relics
Author
Series
Relics (Tim Lebbon) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
There's an underground black market for arcane things: remains of gryphons, faeries, goblins, and other fantastic creatures. When Angela Gough's fiancé Vince goes missing, she discovers that he was a part of this secretive trade. It's a big-money business, shadowy, brutal, and sometimes fatal. As the trail leads deeper into London's dark side, Angela crosses paths with a crime lord whose life is dedicated to collecting such relics... and some of...
19) The Wild Hunt
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The islanders have only three rules: don't stick your nose where it's not wanted, don't mention the war, and never let your guard down during October. Leigh Welles has not set foot in on the island in years, but when she finds herself called home from a disappointing life on the Scottish mainland by her father's unexpected death, she is determined to forget the sorrows of the past-her mother's abandonment, her brother's icy distance, the unspeakable...
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