Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Fantastic Beasts and How to Write Them

Some Jurassic examples of great monster-writing

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Alec Worley
Jan 28, 2025
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Amazing Stories, January 1949, cover artist J. Allen St. John, via Wikimedia Commons

Upon reaching the limits of civilised knowledge, the mapmakers of yore would resort to monsters. Hic Sunt Dracones – Here Be Dragons. In truth, cartographers almost never wrote this1, but there’s a reason the phrase has endured.

It conjures images of fabulous beasts prowli…

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