The Magic Island

A wizard in a star-spangled blue cape sweeps a wand trailing green sparks toward a swirl of stars, beside a flaming cauldron, amid scattered stars and streamers.
Watercolour illustration of Caliban and his mother on a colourful island with birds, animals, flowers, palm trees, tents, and boats in the bay.
Dark fantasy illustration of an icy hall with strange creatures, angels, a dragon, and figures gathered beneath frozen arches.
Watercolour illustration of Caliban’s mother receiving a letter from a winged snail on a snowy morning.
An antique-style fantasy map in blue and white, ornately bordered, marking places such as Ultima Thule, “Here be dragons”, the Gates of Eden and Magic Island, with wind-blowing cherubs and a child riding a sea creature.
Watercolour illustration of a buck dressed as a waitress, a zebra dressed as a waiter carrying drinks, and an orange cat sitting between them.
Caliban’s beautiful island is colonised by a magician, who imprisons his mother Sycorax in a baobab tree. Caliban calls on his distant cousin Grendel for help. The story owes something to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. But not a lot… 

Grendel’s mother gives him a map, to help him find his way from the frozen North to the Magic Island.

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