This gothic bestiary book gives every letter of the alphabet its own creature. Each gets a line of rhyme and a full-page black-and-white illustration, and the rhymes run in pairs, so B answers A. A is for Adzooks that walk with no head.
The creatures are invented, and the drawings are cross-hatched and packed with detail: a headless figure in a checked jacket, a clawed beast over an open coffin, a beaver-like Elliot with its mouth wide open. The book also includes a quotation from Nietzsche's The Will to Power.
Ronald Porcelli also illustrated The Essential Poe: Tales of Horror and Mystery. His bio calls this his first book for children.
Format: hardback, 64 pages
Cover: ornate silver foil pattern on black, black page edges
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