The world of The Dark Crystal is lush and weird; it’s filled with fantastical creatures. That goes for the 1982 film and the recent Netflix series, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. A new book from ...

The medieval illuminated manuscript known as the Aberdeen Bestiary is one of the most lavish of its kind. Heavily encrusted in gold leaf and filled with paintings of beasts that illustrate lengthy ...

Doug Hitt, left, Lisa Grossman and Jake Vail have collaborated on the book “A Kansas Bestiary,” which features essays and watercolors on 15 native Kansas animals. Proceeds from the sale of the book ...

The Aberdeen Bestiary was first documented in 1542 as part of Henry VIII’s book collection. The manuscript with its elaborate, gilded illustrations of animals seems like the type of precious object ...

AAPGRB copy 39088001250489 no. 551 of 750, signed and numbered by the artist and the author. "A Bestiary, published in 1955, was compiled by Richard Wilbur and illustrated by Alexander Calder. Calder ...

Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian writer of short, elegant metaphysical fictional pieces, wrote in 1957 A Manual of Fantastic Zoology. In 1967 an expanded version was published under the title The ...

A popular sensation in medieval Europe, bestiaries were catalogs of beasts featuring exotic animal illustrations, zoological wisdom, and ancient legends. The documentary unfolds like a filmic picture ...