About The Beast Scroll

Every culture has its monsters. The dream-eater of old Japan, the winged guardians at Assyria's gates, the witch in the Slavic forest. The Beast Scroll takes one of these beasts at a time and tells a new suspense story about it.

Each scroll comes in three parts: a video of ten minutes or so, with the camera moving across the comic's art; the comic itself; and a poster of the beast. Every scroll has a permanent number in the archive, and a beast keeps its number wherever it appears: on its card in the Bestiary, its poster and its comic.

True legends, new stories

The beasts are real folklore. They come from myths, folk tales and old records that belong to everyone, and every scroll names the sources its legend comes from. The people and events in each story are invented. Each scroll's page says plainly which parts are the tradition and which parts we made up.

Every beast's art is made new, in the channel's own style. When a beast is also a living symbol, such as an official emblem, a sacred figure or a seasonal custom, we treat it with care and never copy its official design.

Watch and follow

New scrolls unroll on YouTube first, then here. @TheBeastScroll

Sources by scroll

• The first scroll unrolls soon.

Credits

Lettering and brand type: Cinzel and EB Garamond, both under the SIL Open Font License. Music credits for each video are in its YouTube description.

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