Ghouls and Alghouls

Ghouls and Alghouls is a book in . Reading it provides the bestiary entries for ghouls, alghouls, drowners, and rotfiends, as well as the formula for alghoul decoction.
It can be purchased from the following merchants:
* Marcus T.K. Hodgson at his shop on Hierarch Square
* Books merchant in Hierarch Square
* Merchant at the Fish Market
* Halfling merchant in Silverton
The book should also be available as random loot, but due to a randomization bug never appears as such.
== Journal entry ==
: As for the genesis of ghouls, there are hypotheses aplenty. Some scholars claim these monstrosities arose from scoundrels who indulged in a taste for human flesh and for this misdeed drew the wrath of the heavens down upon themselves. The gods punished them by taking away their souls, their minds and their human forms.
: My experiments have shown, however, that ghoul anatomy displays far too little in common with that of humans for this thesis to seem at all probable. Any and all similarity in appearance between ghouls and men, such as their somewhat kindred shapes and the measures of their physiognomies, are pure matters of incidental circumstance. It thus follows that ghouls, like their vile cousins the alghouls, are post-Conjunction creatures – that is to say, such beings as came to our universe in an abrupt cataclysm disrupting the normal laws of nature.
== Notes ==
* The author, John of Brugge, is highly regarded by Vesemir. In the Kaer Morhen quest, he had Ciri reading the book, but she ran off while he was asleep because the book was "horribly dull" as described by her. Vesemir makes the comment to Geralt that "John of Brugge lacks flair, true, but he's reliable".
* This book was also at some point intended to be sold by either Tomira, the roadside shrine herbalist or possibly another herbalist in White Orchard, for whom an entire store inventory list still exists in the game files, but is unused.
* The bestiary entry for ghouls is superfluous as Geralt already has it at the start of Lilac and Gooseberries.
== Trivia ==
* Alghouls are compared to the "panthera tigris that in Zerrikania dwells". Panthera tigris is the binomial nomenclature for the tiger.
ar:الغيلان والغيلان المفترسة
pl:Ghule i Alghule
ru:Гули и альгули
Category:The Witcher 3 books