“There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
~ Hamlet. ACT I Scene 5.

We Will-Workers are fond of our theories. Though some of us might see ourselves as scientist and revolutionaries, we are more the children of Martinus Scriblerus, who created grand equations to calculate the number of angels that could dance on the point of a needle, than children of Copernicus and Newton. In that vein, I have entitled my work a Bestiary, for while the research and catalog work my colleagues and I did was in a sincere and rigorous method, none of us claims to be objective observers. Several times, a friend and I have witnessed the same creature or phenomena and produced two different, sometimes contrary, reports.

It is also to be noted that, while I call this my ‘Bestiary’, the creatures described within are not beasts. There are several with beast-like appearance and mannerisms but that does not mean they do not possess a keen and well-developed intellect. Some of the creatures I describe possess life spans ten times in excess of a mortal man, while others are able to perceive and experience an altogether foreign plane of existence. I would call none of these creatures lesser than a common mage and not a few of them greater.

Lastly, I would like to acknowledge the hard work of my friends Clinton Shue, Marcela Esperanza, and Erik Boyster, the tireless energy of my editor Loraine Naugle, and the comfort and support given to me by my closet companion Guy Defrancisco.

CHAPTER 1: URGES
CHAPTER 2: VAMPIRES
CHAPTER 3: THE FAE