The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Once, reading a psalter by the sea, [Cuthbert] dropped his book into the water - I imagine its glittering illuminated and unchained pages...

The giant sea-serpent glides into view time and again, with a particular frequency in the Victorian period, although the beached and rottin...

If anyone goes down to those shores now, if man or boy seeks to follow in our traces, let him realize at once, before he takes the troubl...