A Book of Monsters

infobox Book |
name = A Book of Monsters
title_orig =
translator =
author = Ruth Manning-Sanders
cover_artist = Robin Jacques
illustrator = Robin Jacques
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Fairy Tales
publisher = E. P. Dutton
release_date = 1976
media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 128 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-525-26951-7

A Book of Monsters is a 1976 anthology of 12 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1975, by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

In the foreword, the author writes: "There is something rather pathetic about monsters. After all, they didn't make themselves; they can't help being huge and hideous. And if they are usually fierce and cruel -- well, if everyone hated and feared you, and ran screaming from the sight of you, wouldn't that be enough to give a grudge against all humanity? It is really a wonder that any of them are kind-hearted; and yet some of them are."

Some of tales from this book are recollected in "Folk and Fairy Tales" (1978) by Manning-Sanders.

Table of contents

*Foreword
*1. Ubir (Tartary)
*2. Monster Copper Forehead (South Russia)
*3. The Golden Valley (Sicily)
*4. Lu-bo-bo (West Africa)
*5. Prince Lindworm (Sweden)
*6. The Monster in the Mill (Macedonia)
*7. Dunber (Bohemia)
*8. The Story of the Three Young Shepherds (Transylvania)
*9. The Great Golloping Wolf (Russia)
*10. The Seven Monsters (Africa)
*11. The Singing Leaves (Tyrol)
*12. Pentalina (Macedonia)

ee also

*Monster