A warning Do not voyage far Dear reader whoever you are wherever you are whenever you are it is my intention to fi ll the pages that follow with two tales so curious and singular that they will encourage you to believe in magic and monsters lost cities and vanished worlds and realities so fantastical they cannot be imagined in your wildest dreams One tale happened thousands of years ago and is still happening now The other happened now and is still happening thousands of years ago Both will happen thou sands of years from now Time is not what you think it is These events I will describe occur in the world you surround yourself with every day and the worlds you visit in your most incredible fantasies They involve people so like you and creatures so different that you will shiver just to think of them But beware for it is also a tale of beings that were ancient before your world was born A tale of monsters who are dead and yet dream who are so powerful that humans are insignificant insignificant and who are so frighteningly alien that simply to think 1
