![]() ![]() If you’re a fan of beastly stories and enjoy esoteric books with words and artwork, here are some other titles you might check out, including flip books, books from other countries, and books that, like the beasts they describe, defy classification.Ī Journey In the Phantasmagorical Garden of Apparitio Albinus by writer/illustrator Claudio Romo (Gingko Press, 2017 translated from the Italian by David Haughton). If you’re a fan of magical, mythical, or made-up, bioengineered beasts, you might check out Borne, as well as his novella The Strange Bird, and listen to an interview with Jeff here. ![]() NEA Big Read author Jeff VanderMeer evokes just this kind of atmosphere in his novel Borne, where there is no shortage of strange creatures to spark one’s imagination. ![]() Evenings especially can be eerily quiet with so many of my fellow city dwellers out of town that I get to thinking: what else is out there in the dark? Did you just hear something? Maybe it’s the hot hazy days of summer that make my surroundings feel surreal sometimes, but I’ve been thinking about strange creatures lately. ![]()
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