October is the month when people expect monsters to perform. The Archive has learned that the real danger is quieter: a parish record describing the same wolf across generations, a family inventory that refuses to keep one face in the same place, a cemetery where the dead children never quite leave, and a mining report written after something beneath the hill begins to wake.
The Midnight Atlas: Volume III - The October Bestiary opens the files of the Department of Unlisted Fauna. Across eight field reports, readers will encounter recovered parish ledgers, estate inventories, cemetery journals, medical notes, interviews, field observations, mining records, and documents whose evidence is difficult to dismiss and harder to explain.
The October Catalogue includes the Black Dog, Banshee, Kelpie, Jersey Devil, Mothman, Headless Horseman, Doppelg nger, and Wild Hunt.
Some cases concern monsters. Others concern animals observed without understanding. A few concern the people who needed a monster badly enough to invent one.
Record first. Interpret second. When the evidence refuses to behave, keep the file open.