Lost Worlds & Imaginary Games

Lore books, bestiaries, and printed artefacts from games and worlds that never existed. Field guides, cursed manuals, maps, and fragments of invented histories — objects that carry the internal logic of imaginary systems, rendered in print with the gravity of a reference work.

Books That Behave Like Objects from Elsewhere

This collection gathers lore books, bestiaries, field guides, cursed manuals, maps, and fragments of invented histories — printed artefacts that read as though they were recovered from games and worlds that never existed. They are not novels, and they are not conventional game tie-ins. They occupy a stranger position: objects that carry the internal logic of an imaginary system, rendered in print with the seriousness of a reference work.

The items here function less as narratives and more as documents. A bestiary cataloguing creatures with no taxonomy. A field guide to territories with no coordinates. A manual whose instructions address a procedure no one has performed. Each title holds its premise without irony, which is precisely what gives it weight. The reader is addressed as someone who already inhabits the world in question — or who might, given enough time with the book.

For those drawn to the object-quality of these publications, the overlap with artist books is deliberate. Many titles in this collection share formal concerns with the Artbooks & Artist Publications strand of the Lokator100 catalogue — where the printed object is itself the primary work, not a container for something else.

The selection is small and specific. It reflects sustained attention to a mode of publishing that treats imaginary games and worlds that never existed as legitimate subjects for serious printed form.

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