FAERIES Described and Illustrated by Brian Fraud and Alan Lee Edited and Designed by David Larkin; Abrams; unpaginated; $14.95
As packets of pulsing light, faeries were the UFOs of our ancestral imagination. On closer encounter, the world of Faerie, as the authors designate their enchanting nutshell universe, reveals a swarm of terrifying and erotic forms: gruesome spriggans who specialize in kidnaping infants and blighting crops; horse-stealing pixies; a bat-frog that preys on Welsh fishermen; amphibious hags who drown and devour careless children; a birch spirit whose touch causes madness; a practical joker known...
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