Welcome to a carnival unlike anything that you have ever read
about, visited, or even imagined before. Here, before your very
eyes, you will encounter bizarre, anomalous creatures of every
conceivable (and inconceivable ) kind-a veritable menagerie of
cryptozoological mysteries to dazzle and delight, tantalize and
terrify. For this is Mirabilis-a realm of marvels, wonders,
miracles...and monsters
Peer through the shadows and see what you may. Was that
scuttling horror a spider the size of a puppy? Did that fallen tree
trunk suddenly sprout a pair of alligator jaws? Was that a living
toad that leapt out of that split-asunder block of stone? Did those
flowers abruptly put forth wings and fly away as tiny birds?
Behold Trunko, the hairy marine elephant-bear that supposedly
battled whales off the coast of South Africa almost a century ago.
Look around in every direction and witness the very last giant
lemurs brought to you from the rainforests of Madagascar, the very
same unicorn that was once encountered by Julius Caesar,
dinosaur-sized crocodiles from the swamps of the Congo, the
elephantine harpoon-tusked sukotyro of Sumatra, gargantuan
prehistoric beavers resurrected in modern-day North America,
illusive Germanic horned hares and elusive Liberian
micro-squirrels, a giant sea snail with antlers and paws from the
Sarmatian Sea and a veritable whale-fish from a forgotten Swedish
lake, a vanished striped mystery steed from Iberia, enormous
toothless freshwater sharks from South America, flying turtles from
China and a hippoturtleox from Tibet, sea dragons and
pseudo-pterodactyls, and the world's only known tusked
megalopedus.
Let us not tarry even a moment longer. The miracles and marvels
of Mirabilis await you impatiently inside, to scintillate,
spellbind, and stultify your senses. So I bid you welcome, and pray
that your visit to this carnival of cryptozoology and unnatural
history will be entertaining...and not too perilous
About the Author:
Born and still living in the West Midlands, England, Karl P.N.
Shuker graduated from the University of Leeds with a Bachelor of
Science (Honors) degree in pure zoology, and from the University of
Birmingham with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in zoology and
comparative physiology. He now works full-time as a freelance
zoological consultant to the media, and as a prolific published
writer. Shuker is currently the author of 19 books and hundreds of
articles, principally on animal-related subjects, with an especial
interest in cryptozoology and animal mythology, on which he is an
internationally recognized authority, but also including a poetry
volume. He is also the editor of the Journal of Cryptozoology, the
world's only existing peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to
mystery animals. He is a Scientific Fellow of the prestigious
Zoological Society of London, and a Fellow of the Royal
Entomological Society. He is Cryptozoology Consultant to the Centre
for Fortean Zoology, and is also a Member of the Society of
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