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The art is the soul of this book. Sutherland’s drawings are scratchy, weird, and deeply unsettling. His "Gelatinous Cube" is a transparent joke of a killer. His "Mind Flayer" looks like a Lovecraftian horror boiled in acid. Unlike modern, high-fantasy polished art, the original art looks like it was engraved by a medieval monk having a nightmare. It forces you to use your imagination, which is precisely the point.

: Look for the "lizard logo" and the "TM applied for" text beneath the Dungeons & Dragons title on the cover. Collector Value monster manual original

The book functioned as an alphabetical encyclopedia, establishing the "monster canon" still used today. The art is the soul of this book