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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Monster Fact.

A short form series from stuff to blow your mind

focusing in on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

My wife recently gave me a copy of the 1985 book Magical Beasts from the time life

enchanted world series. This is a volume I didn't have in my childhood set of the books,

and as with other volumes, this one contains a rich collection of new and classic illustrations.

Flipping through it for the first time, I encountered the expected array of saters,

harpies, and unicorns, but then on page 122,

I encountered a glorious illustration by none other than contemporary artist

Wayne Anderson, whose book Flight of Dragons was the inspiration for the 1982 Rankin and Bass animated film of the same name,

recently featured on Weird House cinema.

Anderson's interpretation of the creature is a splendid antelope-like creature with a single curved horn.

This horn does not spiral, but it does branch off into stunted hollow tubes. It gives the horn an appearance of both coral and a fluted

musical instrument. It also reminded my wife of The Grinch's dog Max, once he was augmented with a crude antler in the cartoon.

The text of Magical Beast tells us that this is the Persian creature known as Shadavar.

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