A Book of Creatures

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A good and talented friend of mine produced a similar book: https://www.amazon.com/Willoughbys-World-Wonder-Stephen-Barn...

Don't forget to click the "See all 9 images" link for what I hope you will find to be a treat. (In the interest of full disclosure, I have no financial interest in the book - however, I did buy a copy myself.)

Very cool - I like the style and illustrations.

Although if there’s an uncanny valley for animalia, I’d venture it applies to many of the less whimsical entries.

Looking at you sky-rats!

Where is the “see all 9 images link?”

At upper-left, just under the picture of the book cover (and above the "Follow the Author"), there are a few thumbnails and a "See all Images" hyperlink you can click to get the typical pop-up gallery. You can see even more at his site https://www.antarcticaarts.com/books/WWW.html

Makes me think of the Mysterious Creatures Field Guide by Eli Libson, produced in Minneapolis

https://www.roguebuddha.com/STORE/--p190208978

I wonder if there's a correlation behind the recent surge in these monstrous publications

It's something like Codex Seraphinianus

Now that is one trippy book! I bought one of the reprint for a friend once. I should've kept another for myself!

This reminded me of this book I loved as a kid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings

A D&D monster manual makes a great coffee table book as well.

I have 3.5e on mine.

Great art and fun monsters.

Good I'm goin to search in my country for "minchesko"

spore creatures library

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