The Bestiary — A Field Guide to Creatures That May Not Exist

Twelve described. Twenty for you to find.

Corvid Familiaris, the Kept Raven — keeps company with one person for life and is rude to everybody else. Canis Limitis, the Threshold Hound — lies across a doorway and will not be moved. Does not object to being stepped over. Corvus Nuntius, the Message Crow — arrives before the news does. Whether it brings the news or merely precedes it has never been settled.

Written in the flat, patient voice of a Victorian naturalist who has never once considered he might be wrong.

Then twenty blank plates: a frame to draw in, and lines for the Latin name, rarity,

habitat, habit, and what people say it means. Plus a page on how to name a creature convincingly, and an index for your own.

37 pages. For worldbuilders, tabletop games, novelists, and children who draw monsters.