"Fringe Zoology: The Specimens of Thomas Merrylin" book

Over fifteen years in the making, Fringe Zoology: The Specimens of Thomas Merrylin is a 21 x 29 cm, cloth bound hardback book, with rich brown end pages and a dust jacket. Contained within are hundreds of photographs of specimens and artefacts, and the accompanying explanations of these items. Delve into the mythos of the collection -through esoteric maps, arcane items of the occult, species unseen in science and at its heart - the tale of a broken man.

As a wonderful addition to this exploration of a myth, the master of modern folk horror, and creator of Siren Head, The Mayfair Watchers Society podcast, and a menagerie of other curious and horrifying imaginings, Trevor Henderson, has kindly written a foreword for the book.

Mere folklore, legend or, perhaps something else, the Merrylin Cryptid Collection is wunderkammer of unclassified specimens. Discovered in a vast subterranean space beneath a London townhouse, hundreds of shipping crates dating from the early 19th century. Within, the preserved bodies of animals described as Lycanthrope, Fae and Vampyr; animals of fiction in all their shrivelled, decayed glory.

At its centre, the aforementioned Thomas Merrylin, a man born at the tail end of the 1700's, who supposedly lived until 1942, when he disappeared while fighting against fascism in mainland Europe. He would have been 160 years old.

But what is intriguing is, that, within his fastidiously written diaries, a different story is told - one that puts the collection in second place to a far more pressing issue. One of family, of righting grave wrongs, and of artefacts that defy our common understanding of physical laws.

Dear reader, welcome to Fringe Zoology: The Specimens of Thomas Merrylin.

200 pages, full colour 21 x 29.7 cm hardback book. The book is heavy, hence the postage costs!

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