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A comprehensive list of mythical and folkloric creatures from various cultures and traditions, sorted by their classification or affiliation. Find out the names, characteristics, and origins of animals, arthropods, birds, and more mystical beings.
Volo's Guide to Monsters is a sourcebook for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 2016. It adds new playable races, monsters, and lore to the game, and has won several awards and received positive reviews.
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1983. All of them were initially delivered as lectures to academics, with the exception of " On Translating Beowulf " , which Christopher Tolkien notes in his foreword is ...
A series of epic fantasy novels by Steven Erikson, set in a world co-created with Ian Cameron Esslemont. The series consists of ten books, spanning thousands of years and multiple continents, and has received critical acclaim and comparisons to literary masters.
Frankenstein is an 1818 novel by English author Mary Shelley, about a scientist who creates a living creature in an experiment. The novel explores themes of horror, science, and the human condition, and has influenced many works of literature and popular culture.
A 2011 fantasy novel by Ransom Riggs about a boy who discovers his grandfather's stories about a secret home for peculiar children are true. The novel features vintage photographs and a time loop that protects the children from hollowgast, monsters that feed on peculiars.
Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters is the first in a series of "Book of" anthologies edited by Bruce Coville. It was first published in September 1993 by Scholastic Publishing . It is collection of stories aimed at juvenile readers that advertises itself as "scary", but in fact contains a wide variety of stories and genres such as science fiction ...
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