Full title: Jayne's Guide to Extra-Normal Fauna: Concerning the creatures of the Various Planes.
Author: Ezekiel Jayne
Published: 1880, 1890, 1900, self published.
Format: Deadtree
The Publications[]
Jayne's Guide informs and does a too good a job of it.
First Edition 1880[]
Contains the descriptions of 623 extra planer outsiders. It holds the spells needed to summon and hopefully control these beings.
Total Known Edition 5000.
Second Edition 1890[]
Jayne ups the ante to 654 creatures. It also has descriptions of extra planer locations, corrections to the first edition spells and descriptions.
The first mention of what is now believed to Be Greyhawke is made in this volume.
Total Known Edition 5000
Third Edition 1900[]
The Third Edition has 666 creatures. The book expands to two volumes. The last volume of the book has locations, descriptions and means of entering various extra planer locations. It reads like the travelogue of a madman.
The Half world is mentioned in this volume. A strange disconnected place that shadows the physical locations of Earth and contains the creatures of myth and legend.
Total known Edition 5000
Comment[]
NOT a smart book to own, or for Ezekiel Jayne, to publish.
From Professor James Smythe: "If you know the right sources Jayne's is too common. The layman might run into a copy at an estate sale. Ezekiel Jayne was as mad as a hatter, and considered that everyone should be informed. To that end he published three editions of his Guide to Extra Normal Fauna between 1880 and 1900. He included everything he could get including methods of summoning and control. In 1903 Jayne was found dead in his study. His study had been ripped apart, and it was noted that every orifice on his body, including the wounds that killed him were filled with a foul smelling cottage cheese like substance.". Mi-13 seized the plates of his last book, and the manuscript he was currently working on was destroyed, but, the damage was done. 5000 copies of each edition were loose in the world. I have three of each edition. To date 3330 of all editions have been located and accounted for. That leaves far too many at large."