About

Ann VanderMeer currently serves as an acquiring fiction editor for Tor.com, Cheeky Frawg Books, and weirdfictionreview.com. She was the editor-in-chief for Weird Tales for five years, during which she was nominated three times for the Hugo Award, winning one. Long with nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award, she also has won a World Fantasy Award and a British Fantasy Award for co-editing The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. Her latest anthologies include Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution and The Time Traveler's Almanac.

Bestiaries have a long and vibrant history The first spontaneous bestiary survives in historical documents from ancient Macedonia beehive, through a Fortean expression of the uncanny, was transformed overnight.

As observed by the beekeeper, and then those that he summoned, all of his bees now had the heads of unusual monsters “and these heads were so heavy that most plummeted to the ground,” there to be marveled at by the onlookers y dusk, the bestiary no longer existed, having been plundered by perhaps the world's first souvenir seekers Here is a modern bestiary of made-up fantastical creatures organized from A to Z, along with an ampersand and an invisible letter, featuring some of the best and most respected fantasists from around the world, including Karen Lord, Dexter Palmer, Brian Evenson, China Miéville, Felix Gilman, Catherynne M.

Alente, Rikki Ducornet, and Karin Lowachee With over 20 full page illustrations by Ivica Stevanovic in fabulously designed book, gorgeously printed ote: This is not a signed nor numbered edition The book will start shipping around February 20. edition information.

Edition Details

• Introduction by Jeff VanderMeer.
• Original artwork by Ivica Stevanovic.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands.

External Links

• The Bestiary. Centipede Press page for The Bestiary
• Edited by Ann VanderMeer (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Edited by Ann VanderMeer