Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray copyright 1950A nice vintage copy of a classic with intact dust cover.

and theater

huge creatures pace

extensive random encounters

But the house is deserted

a realm of irresistibly cute baby socks

This edition also includes a bonus story

comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child

but when greed overcomes the fisherman

Once bonded

there’s George and the Dragon from England and the famous Norse Myth of Fafnir

Local town

either as alien relics found in long lost treasure hoards or to accompany the sci-fi inspired classes in Carcass Crawler issue 1 (the hephaestan and kineticist)