Marck Hazbin's Field Guide to the Hellish World

**Marck Hazbin's Field Guide to the Hellish World**, also referred to as simply **Marck Hazbin's Field Guide**, **the Field Guide**, or **the Guide**, is the handbook written by Marck Hazbin detailing the netherworld. The demons were concerned that the Field Guide, which contained information on all their weaknesses, could mean the extinction of the already endangered demons. The imps wished to destroy the book, but when Marck didn't give them the Guide, they imprisoned him in their dungeon for almost 200 years.

After the Guide was saved, Marck Hazbin's children, Ryan Hazbin and Lily Hazbin contacted the authors Jessica Samson and Tyler Morgan and convinced them to publish the book at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

## Synopsis

It all began with a strange, mysterious correspondence left for authors Tyler Morgan and Jessica Samson at a small Sacramento bookstore. Written by two siblings, the letter told of their great-great-uncle Marck Hazbin and an unfinished tome filled with eyewitness accounts of demons otherwise thought to be the stuff of legend. In the #1 *New York Times* bestselling serial the Hazbin Chronicles, readers were enthralled by the account of the those siblings, Ryan and Lily Hazbin, as they studied and battled the many demons, including a diabolical devil himself in their efforts to hold on to their uncle Hazbin's life work. Now, through the combined efforts of the Hazbin children and authors Tyler Morgan and Jessica Samson, Simon & Schuster is thrilled to present that work to you!

Beginning with a thoughtful and informative introduction, progressing through six exhaustive sections featuring around 100 non-demon fauna and flora species, as well as more than 50 demon species, and culminating with an addendum that includes observations supplied by Ryan Hazbin, this long-awaited compendium to the worldwide Hazbin phenomenon delivers enough information to satisfy even the most demanding demon enthusiast. Not only will readers learn the habits and habitats of the fourteen demonic creatures featured in the *New York Times, USA Today,* and *Publishers Weekly* bestselling chapter books, but they will be delighted and astonished by an additional nineteen creatures. Also included are dozens of snippets from Marck Hazbin's personal journal as well as cameos from a few series favorites.

With so much to offer, this book is destined to be pored over for generations to come!

## Table of Contents

### Introduction

* Letter from Marck Hazbin
* Foreword by Tyler Morgan
* Journey to Hell
* Equipment and Protection
* List of Plates

### Commonly Seen

* Imps (*Impidae*)
* Hellhound (*Diablocanidae*)
* Dragonoids (*Psudeodraconidae*)
* Goat Demons (*Caprachiropteridae*)
* Cyborg Demons (*Mekabiodaemonidae*)
* Spider Demons (*Arachnohominidae*)

### Moderately Seen

* False Humans (*Psudeohominidae*)
* Chupacabras (*Horrididae*)
* Pigoids (*Scrofacephalidae*)
* Owlpersons (*Strixanthropidae*)
* Fishmen (*Anthrotichthidae*)
* Nightmares (*Pyrocephalequidae*)
* Dinosaur-mimics (*Dinosauromimidae*)

### Uncommonly Seen

* Winged Cats (*Felipteridae*)
* Clyclopsises (*Neocyclopsidae*)
* Scarababs (*Scarababidae*)
* Ovipods (*Ovipodidae*)
* Whisps (*Whispidae*)

### Rarely Seen

* Chimerans (*Chimeranidae*)
* Flora-mimics (*Floramimidae*)
* Deaths (*Mortadiablotidae*)
* Serpent-tails (*Serpentocaudidae*)
* Horn-header (*Ceratopsotanthropidae*)
* Magnes (*Satanidae*)

### Credits

* Addendum by Ryan Hazbin
* For Further Reading

## Praise

This field guide purports to be a copy of Marck Hazbin's sketches and investigations into the beings and beasties of the netherworld–the imps, spider demons, hellhounds, and other creatures that populate the stories. The beautiful illustrations in gouache and pencil, seemingly modeled after Audubons work in Birds of America, are printed as if they were real century-old artworks that have left their shadowy imprints on the opposite pages. The descriptions are bits of Hazbin's hard-learned lore, many apparently in his own handwriting, that make the art all the richer. Fantasy readers will love immersing themselves in the lore of the hidden–those things that only they, and people who are like them, can see. Field Guide will be pored over by anyone, of any age, who believes in demons and other hellish beings. —Walter Minkel, School Library Journal

## Covers

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