This Week's Featured Freebie Access Your PC from Anywhere - Free Download Informative, entertaining, and free newsletters... Josh Day Presents Fantastical Creatures: A Modern Bestiary Bestiary: A medieval collection of stories providing physical and allegorical descriptions of real or imaginary animals along with an interpretation of the moral significance each animal was thought to embody. A number of common misconceptions relating to natural history were preserved in these popular accounts. -- Dictionary.com The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. -- H.P. Lovecraft In the Middle Ages, fear dominated Europe, and wonder ruled the minds of all. In those so-called dark times spirits haunted cellars and glens, fairies and elves visited lucky humans, and Church doctrine warned of werewolves and witches, demons and ghosts. Nearly a thousand years later all that remains of those mysterious, paranoid times are fairy tales, images of fabled beasts still deep within our collective unconscious, and the Bestiaries that have survived through the ages. Before the beginning, after the great war between heaven and hell, God created the earth and gave dominion over it to the crafty ape he called man. And to each generation was born a creature of light and a creature of darkness. And great armies clashed by night in the ancient war between good and evil. There was magic then, nobility, and unimaginable cruelty. And so it was until the day that a false sun exploded over Trinity. And man forever traded away wonder for reason. -- Michael J. Anderson (HBO's Carnivale) The Age of Reason slaughtered the mythological creatures of the world, and the nuclear sun over Trinity, New Mexico rang as a final knell to their memories and our narcissistic rationality. However, traces of the lost beasts remain in the world today, regardless of science and enlightenment. Sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, the Mothman of West Virginia, and widespread accounts of ghosts and alien encounters are prominent all over the globe. Fiction and fantasy embrace the lost creatures and give them new life. Blockbuster films and best-selling novels like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings prove there is still magic inside our collective unconscious. Do you believe in the supernatural? Is our reality only veil-thin? Do you refuse to accept today's scientific explanations of the universe and strange phenomena? If you answered yes -- or an emphatic no -- to one of the above, then my free Modern Bestiary series is for you. Josh Day Presents Fantastical Creatures: A Modern Bestiary is a free newsletter collection of 22 entries detailing 22 different, fascinating, and often rare monsters and other fantastical beings. Here is a small list of some of the creatures you'll learn about: Harpies A dragon called The Lambton Worm that allegedly plagued the English town of Durham for years Fairies Zombies, original Voodoo variety and the newer American breed The amazing Griffin, the creature that is staring at you right now Sign up now and you will receive your first issue (The Minotaur) immediately. Then every two days the next fascinating and informative entry will automatically be mailed to your mailbox. A Modern Bestiary is free and comes at absolutely no cost or hassle to you. This fun, interesting series will transport you back to your youth. I've painstakingly researched each entry and I believe you will be waiting at your computer for each new issue every two days. In addition to the mythological entertainment, you will learn the history of each beast and how ancient people came to regard them as magical... So pick up your Redcrosse armour and journey into the wylderness, for here there be dragyns... Sign up below and get your 22 issues of A Modern Bestiary absolutely free! First name E-mail address A Modern Bestiary is supported by one ad per issue as well as occasional sponsor mailings | Home | Feedback | Sitemap Copyright © 2004-2008 by Chet Day All Rights Reserved