The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges’s The Book of Imaginary Beings (1969) introduces readers to the origins and characteristics of creatures like the Chimera, the Chinese Dragon, the Jinn, and the Western Dragon. Although I am hardly a scholar when it comes to monsters and imaginary beings, I was still impressed by how many of 155 creatures included here were entirely new to me.
This book might seem limited to some twenty-first century readers, so let’s acknowledge these concerns (if only to get them out of the way).
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