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 Hydras, and Chimeras dire.

–Milton, Paradise Lost.