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Another help me find this book thread!
EclecticGroove
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I didn't want to hijack the other guys thread as he hasn't (stated) he's hit the jackpot with the one suggestion so far.
This is going way back for me trying to remember this book... but I've always been meaning to try and find it, and haven't had much luck.
When I was but a wee lad I used to go visit my dad, and for awhile he had this book I used to flip through. It was about all sorts of mythical creatures and such. I know it had a bunch of monsters in it, and I "think" it may have had some good or at least mischievous ones in the beginning, before getting to the downright evil ones later on. The book was illustrated, and that's what I loved about it... I remember the artwork in it to be VERY good.... of course history could be clouding my judgement, but hey... it's what I remember.
Google isn't a lot of help, since you can imagine that searching for anything fairy/faerie related or demon/monster related turns up a metric ton of stuff, and I can't remember enough to refine it down to a point to search it.
This is going way back for me trying to remember this book... but I've always been meaning to try and find it, and haven't had much luck.
When I was but a wee lad I used to go visit my dad, and for awhile he had this book I used to flip through. It was about all sorts of mythical creatures and such. I know it had a bunch of monsters in it, and I "think" it may have had some good or at least mischievous ones in the beginning, before getting to the downright evil ones later on. The book was illustrated, and that's what I loved about it... I remember the artwork in it to be VERY good.... of course history could be clouding my judgement, but hey... it's what I remember.
Google isn't a lot of help, since you can imagine that searching for anything fairy/faerie related or demon/monster related turns up a metric ton of stuff, and I can't remember enough to refine it down to a point to search it.
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The extraterrestrials one isn't it either, this one had no aliens in it.
And it's not where the wild things are, great book in its own right, read many a time when younger, but the book I'm looking for follow no story or lead... it's basically like an illustrated guidebook for a bunch of mythical creatures. Each page is essentially a full illustration of one creature with a description/background on it (either on the same page or the opposing page, kinda fuzzy on that).
If I could just remember a bit more about it I could probably narrow a google search down to less astronomical/useless entries, but having no luck yet.
Nope, no such luck.
It doesn't make it any easier that a lot of the searches I come up with don't yield any actual images from the resulting hits... and that's about the only way I'd identify it without having some more information to go on.
I had the first edition when I was a kid, came out in the 80's sometime.
Nope, interesting looking book tho.
Did it looks like this?
Here's the amazon link, the others in the series are linked from this page...
Tough one to find I guess.
The artwork was (from my memory) in a style sort of like a more realistic early elfquest, or a more fantasy themed and less realistic look of some of Boris Vallejo's work.
It's killin me that I can't remember much of it.. but this was half a lifetime ago for me, or longer... so it's been awhile!
I had a friend who had that book.
The only thing I remember was that there were many naked gnome women. Seriously. Gnome-tits galore.
I actually worked at work on Saturday. Also I went out on a date with a real life girl.
Can you like, permanently break the forums?