Monsters: A Bestiary of the Bizarre - Tapa dura

'My special favourite this year ... a colourful and hideous collection of arty monsters of all kinds ... this nightmarish bestiary is sure to stir the bloodthirsty imaginations of nice boys and girls everywhere' - V&A?Magazine 'A?mis-matched zoo of mind-boggling creations from minotaurs through golems to mermaids, from sphinxes to sirens and shapeshifting nightmares ... takes us to the edge of the cultural map' - The Times

This book explores monsters through the ages and throughout the world. With a brilliant set of bizarre and fantastical illustrations, Monsters provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of fearsome beasts from every age and culture. Christopher Dell investigates what the existence of monsters – even if only in our heads – says about humankind, and explores such questions as how monsters have survived the millennia; why they are universal; why we find the same one-eyed giants in Japan and in ancient Greece, or the same dragons in Europe and China.