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Unnatural Creatures, Stories selected by Neil Gaiman

Diese Anthologie hätte ich mir auch schon längst zulegen sollen, immerhin enthält sie Geschichten von Peter S. Beagle, Diana Wynne Jones und Edith Nesbit, und wegen dem genialen Thema. Und dem schönen Vorwort - hier ein Ausschnitt, der es mir besonders angetan hat:

- the best place in the world was in London, a short walk from South Kensington Station. It was an ornate building, made of colored bricks, and it had - and come to think of it, still has - gargoyles all over the roof: pterodactyls and saber-toothed tigers. There was a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton in the lobby, and a stuffed replica of a dodo in a dusty case. There were things in bottles that had once been alive, and things in glass boxes that were alive no longer, sorted and catalogued and pinned.
It was called the Natural History Museum.

Lang, lang ist's her, und ich war seitdem schon in vielen anderen, auch großartigen Naturgeschichtemuseen, aber an dieses eine denke ich auch oft und gerne zurück.