The book is dedicated to the most famous mythical creatures. The reader will plunge into a magical world inhabited by dryads and giants, gnomes and fairies, mermaids and trolls. A fairy tale familiar to us from childhood is presented on the pages of this book in the illustrations of the classics of world painting P.-P. Rubens, N. Poussin, V. Vasnetsov, I. Bilibin, as well as little-known artists.