Mythology
Mythical Creatures: The Complete Guide to Dragons, Vampires, Werewolves, and the Monsters of World Folklore
Dragons, Vampires, Werewolves, and Krakens
A field guide to the monsters of the human imagination: the dragons of East and West, the vampire and the werewolf, the kraken and the sea serpent, the phoenix, the griffin, and the beasts that nearly every culture, somehow, dreamed up on its own.
$14.99
Inside this book
What you will read
- 11 chapters, primary sources
- Instant PDF download
- Original ink illustrations
- Inline citations to bestiaries and folklore
- Designed for print quality
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- 01Why Every Culture Builds Monsters
- 02Dragons of the West: Hoard, Fire, and the Wyrm
- 03Dragons of the East: Rain, Rivers, and Luck
- 04The Vampire: From the Slavic Revenant to Dracula
- 05The Werewolf and the Shapeshifters
- 06The Kraken and the Monsters of the Deep
- 07The Phoenix, the Firebird, and the Reborn
- 08The Griffin, the Sphinx, and the Hybrids
- 09The Giants, Trolls, and Ogres
- 10The Unicorn, the Basilisk, and the Bestiary
- 11Cryptids: The Monsters We Still Look For
Written by
Guillaume Henry
Founder of Mythologis
Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.
- Primary sources first
- No invented quotations
- Cross-referenced across translations
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