Epigraph

Every book I write is supposed to have an epigraph (a quotation that sits at the beginning of the book), but editors don’t like them and sometimes they get cut. Anyway, I wanted The Big Book of Monsters to have this epigraph, so please print it out, cut it out, and paste it on the inside of your copy (assuming it’s not a library copy).

Nature breeds,
Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things,
Abominable, inutterable, and worse
Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived,
Gorgons and Hydr...