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The Mythical Zoo: An A-Z of Animals in World Myth, Legend, and Literature. ABC-CLIO. 2002. ISBN 1-57607-612-1. Crow. Reaktion Books. 2003. ISBN 1-86189-194-6. [4] City of Ravens: The Extraordinary History of London, its Tower, and its Famous Ravens. Duckworth-Overlook: New York, 2011-2012. Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous, and the ...
British weird fiction author China Miéville credits Borges for inspiring The Tain, his 2002 fantasy novella, which features "imagos" that resemble the Fauna of Mirrors entry in The Book of Imaginary Beings. The title of Caspar Henderson's 2012 book The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a reference to Borges's book. [12]
The peryton is a fictional hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird.The peryton was invented by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1957 Book of Imaginary Beings, using the fictional device of a supposedly long-lost medieval manuscript.
Adlet- (Inuit) Tribe of hybrid dog people birthed from a woman who married her dog. Were banished for preying on humans. Akhlut - (Inuit) Wolf-orca hybrid monster that hunts on both land and sea. Amarok- (Inuit) Giant wolf which hunts solitarily. Anubis – jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife (Egypt)
It debuted in Lego Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape (where it was mistakenly claimed that Velociraptor DNA was used to make it) and appeared Jurassic World: The Game and the Jurassic World: Dino Hybrid toyline. Compsteganathus - A hybrid of a Compsognathus, a Stegosaurus, and a tree frog. It debuted in the Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect toyline.
Entish, a theoretical imaginary language in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where tree creatures name objects by relating what they know of their entire past, similarly to Borges' divine language in this essay; Leishu – a genre of reference books historically compiled in China and other countries of the Sinosphere
The Book of Enoch quite clearly details how Satan and his fallen angels created various hybrids by admixture. The Sphinx is the best known such hybrid. The hippogriff is supposed to be a mixture of several animals and the author notes that in order to support its weight, the wings would be so heavy that flight would be impossible, which proves ...
As a child, Dixon was inspired by H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, particularly the far future creatures featured in the book, to create his own imaginary future animals descended from creatures of the modern day. These animals often served as background characters in Dixon's own retellings of Wells' work.