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Fantastical Creatures Field Guide: How to Hunt Them Down and Draw Them Where They Live

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When you are this demented...they call you Mister. So, in the best traditions of mental instability and creative creature cogitative processes, Mr Aaron Lopresti and his partner in tax avoidance/creature investigation , Professor Ham Fabricatini present in the grandest style conceivable (theme music please), a masterwork of imaginative, improbable, and impressive creatures of questionable origins.

Whether this book chronicles the adventures of Mr Fabricatini throughout the globe and local points of interest, is of no consequence to the reader who appreciates fine art and tactile delineation of half truths. Consider the journey that leads to a creature as elegant as the Gulf Stream Gill Man. Why, Elmer Red Kneck has spotted the Gill Man twice in 1957. Who can possibly doubt the veracity of such underwhelming evidence. Mr Lopresti has accurately captured the likeness of the Gill creature, perhaps due to the fact that in 1987 he sighted the creature handing out candy. Only Elmer will ever know...

There is also Davey Joness locker partner. Have you ever seen a sea flick with NO reference to Davey Jones? Jack Sparrow has oft referred to the Administrator of the deep, but what about his partner? Orthonius Rosenblatt, esteemed graduate of the Triton Academy of Death Management? As an avid bath-tub denizen, I am pleased that neither of the masters of the deep live in my tub. I have a a killer rubber ducky!

But oh, the number of creatures with seemingly out of place origins does not end easily. The Treasure Elves live and breed in the bowels of the G-7 tax departments today. Protecting us from the Elves are the Drooling Wolfhounds. The Thunder Trolls, Bug Eyed Bush Beards, Wild Rhinoceros Boars, and Cave Harpies would not be welcome in my hovel.

But, they are welcome in my book shelf. Such imaginative creatures with deviant origins could only be found in such a volume. This book is not for those who watch "dancing with the stars", but rather "dancing with the dragons, harpies, and Golems". Laugh, cry, lock your doors. This book will inspire your wilderness wanderings, accompanied by a tax accountant, priest, nutritional chemist, and botanist.
But, if you want to take your friends, go ahead.

"Fantastical Creatures Field Guide" is available at your local outfitter store and fine book dealers everywhere.

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Tim Lasiuta

Deviant at large.