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Legendary creatures play important roles in many ancient texts. Sometimes they are symbols of the hermetic processes of alchemy; in other cases they crop up in antique accounts of natural history. No doubt, these beings haunt our dreams and nightmares to this day. These are some of the books on dragons, were-wolves, unicorns, mermaids, giants and other elusive creatures at this site.

by Ivan T. Sanderson · 1961
The Bigfoot researchers' Bible, by the writer who coined the term cryptozoology.
by Robert Brown · 1881
Explore the deep mythological significance of the unicorn.
by L.W. King · 1902
The Babylonian creation saga, including the battle between Marduk and Tiamat, a very angry goddess taking the form of a dragon.

by John Vinycomb · 1909
Lore of the fantastic beasts of English Heraldry.
by J. F. Campbell & George Henderson · 1911
The ur-myth of the struggle with the dragon, told in fine Celtic form with giants, mermaids and sidhe. (English and Gaelic)

by Grafton Elliot Smith · 1919
The dragon: a neolithic symbol of the goddess, mutating into the prototype of the devil.
by Ernest Ingersoll · 1928
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