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Here Be Monsters! is a novel written and illustrated by Alan Snow.
Subtitled An adventure involving magic, trolls, and other creatures, it is presented as Volume I of The Ratbridge Chronicles.
It was first published in Great Britain in 2005 by the Oxford University Press.
It was published in the United States by Atheneum on 20 June 2006.
The book includes over 500 black-and-white illustrations by Snow, originally executed in pen and ink.
Although termed a book for young readers, it contains many of the elements of fantasy and adventure found in works such as those of Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling that attract readers of all ages.
The book has also been issued as a trilogy of shorter novels: Pants Ahoy!, The Man in the Iron Socks, and Cheese Galore!.
These are subtitled Here Be Monsters Part 1, 2, and 3 （respectively）.
This should not be confused with the designation of the original single volume edition as being Volume I of The Ratbridge Chronicles.
Here Be Monsters! is set in—and below—the fictional English town of Ratbridge （based upon the Wiltshire town of Trowbridge）, on the banks of the River Rat.
A detail in one illustration suggests that it is set in or around the year 1803, and at least one character is depicted in clothing and wig reminiscent
of that era; but Ratbridge is already so industrialised that certain industries have collapsed in the depletion of natural resources.
Large electric generators, a product of the mid-19th century, are in operation, as are bicycles （developed in the 1880s）.
It presupposes the ready availability of cardboard boxes, an invention of the 1850s, and also of cardboard recycling programmes.
Most notably, the technology for incandescent lighting, radio, television, ...