Mermaids, dragons, werewolves, eldritch abominations. You know them all but you've never seen them quite like this. Immerse yourself in these tales of magical creatures that are at once familiar and unexpected. Follow the catalog of beasts over blasted wasteland, through cult claimed towers, and across the vast, unfathomable depths of the open ocean to lands where fate hangs on the outcome of a cattle raid, the turn of a tarot card, or the swift flight of a harpoon dart, filled with sensuous dream-scapes, hard-bitten emotion, and visceral action. Over twenty years in the making, this collection of five short stories/novellas forms the debut offering for the author who, like the creatures herein, is a blend of old and new.