The Monster Book
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Monsters have been spotted everywhere, not just hiding under a child’s bed, lurking in the closet, or springing forth from folkloric tales. Exploring the history, mythology, pop culture, and the world of the supernatural, The Monster Book: Creatures, Beasts, and Fiends of Nature is a comprehensive resource of the monster menagerie from around the world. Examining the lore and legends, as well as the first-person accounts of bizarre freaks of nature and spine-tingling paranormal entities, it details each beast with thorough research, while recounting the facts in an engaging narrative.This fascinating look at monsters investigates nearly 200 beings, beasts, freaks, and fiends, ranging from the renowned and celebrated to the little-known and inglorious, including Werewolves, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the chupacabra, Mothman, the Abominable Snowman, the Mongolian Death Worm, Living Pterosaurs, Alien Big Cats, Lizard Man, Lake Worth Monster, the Monstrous Monitor, South American Sasquatch, the Jersey Devil, Sea Serpents, Phantom Black Dogs, and much, much more.
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Nick Redfern. The Monster Book
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO FROM VISIBLE INK PRESS
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHOTO SOURCES
INTRODUCTION
UNEARTHLY CATS, DEADLY DOGS, WEREWOLVES
ALIEN BIG CATS
AUSTRALIAN MYSTERY BLACK CATS
BEAST OF BRAY ROAD
CEMETERY WOLF-MAN
EIGI EINHAMIR OF NORWAY AND ICELAND
FENRIR THE WEREWOLF
GLOWING MONSTER OF THE CLIFFS
HEXHAM HEADS
LYCANTHROPES
MAN-DOG MONSTER
MILITARY WEREWOLF
MORPHING BLACK BEAST
ORANGE, TEXAS, SHAPE-SHIFTER
PHANTOM BLACK DOG
SHAPE-SHIFTING BLACK DOGS
STUUBE, PETER
SUPERNATURAL HOUNDS OF SOUTH AMERICA
TEXAS CHUPACABRA
WERECATS
WEREWOLF OF KLEIN-KRAMS
WEREWOLVES AND THE BROTHERS GRIMM
WOLF-MAN
WOLF STONE BEAST-WOMAN
WORLD WAR II MONSTER HOUND
WULVER
NATURE GONE MAD
BEAR-MONSTER
BLACK FOREST BEASTS
GIANT BEAVER
GIANT SPIDERS
GIGANTIC INSECTS
INDIAN DEVIL
KINIK (KOKOGIAK)
LONDON’S BEAR-MONSTER
MAN-EATING PLANTS
MONTAUK MONSTER
REPTILIANS, AMPHIBIANS, DINOSAURS, AND WORMS
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWERS
AVEBURY WORM
BASILISK
CHATHAM ISLAND SAURIAN
CHINESE DRAGON
CIA’S SUPER-SNAKE
CRESTED SNAKE-CREATURE
FORTY-FOOT SNAKE
GIANT BOA
GIANT SALAMANDER
HORSHAM HORROR
IRISH “CROCODILE”
LAMBTON WORM
LINDORM
LINTON WORM
LOVELAND FROG
MARCO POLO’S MONSTER
MEGALANIA PRISCA
MINNESOTA GIANT FROG
MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM
ROCK MONSTER
ROPEN
SUPER-SIZED SNAKE OF SPRING VALLEY
THETIS LAKE MAN-REPTILE
LAKE, RIVER, AND OCEAN MENACES
ATTACKING THE PAULINE
BIG WALLY
BLOOP
BUNYIP
CADDY
CHAMP
DRAGONS OF THE DEEP
GALVESTON SEA SERPENT
GIANT EEL OF BIRMINGHAM
GLOUCESTER SEA SERPENT
HENRY LEE’S SEA MONSTERS
H.M.S. DAEDALUS’S MONSTER OF THE DEEP
HORNED MONSTER OF LAKE BANGWEULU
KLAMATH RIVER MONSTER
KRAKEN
LAKE STORSJÖN CREATURE
LAKE WINNIPEGOSIS UNKNOWN ANIMAL
LOCH NESS MONSTER
LOUGH NAHOOIN MONSTER
MERMAIDS
MERMEN
MOKELE-MBEMBE
MONSTER OF THE MERE
MORAG
MORGAWR
NARRABEEN LAGOON MONSTER
NORWEGIAN SEA MONSTER
OGOPOGO
OKLAHOMA OCTOPUS
ONE EYE
PADDLER
PEPIE OF THE LAKE MONSTER
RIVER MONSTER
RIVER NESS MONSTER
SOLIMOES RIVER BEAST
ST. HELENA’S SEA SERPENTS
STORSJÖODJURET
TEGGIE OF LAKE BALA
CRYPTIC APES AND WILD MEN
ALMASTY
BIG GREY MAN OF BEN MACDHUI
BIGFOOT
BLUE BELL HILL BEAST
BOLAM BEAST
BOULDER BIGFOOT
CASTLE RING MONSTER
HIBAGON, THE JAPANESE BIGFOOT
ICEMAN OF MINNESOTA
KENTUCKY WILD MAN
MANDE BURUNG OF INDIA
MAN-MONKEY OF THE SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
MCCOOEY’S MONSTER-APES
MONO GRANDE
MONSTERS OF THE PUBS
MONTAUK SASQUATCH
NYALMO
ORFORD WILD MAN
PUERTO RICAN MAN-APE
SKUNK APE
STALIN’S SUPER-APES
WENDIGO
YEREN
YETI
YOWIE
ZANA
NOT SO HUMAN
ASWANG
BATSQUATCH
DONKEY WOMAN
GOAT MAN OF TEXAS
GOAT MAN OF WHITE ROCK LAKE
GRINNING MAN
HORSE-KILLING CREATURES
LIZARD MAN
MAPINGUARI
MENACING ALBINO
MONSTER OF GLAMIS
NIGHTMARE HALL MONSTERS
REPTILE MAN
SLENDERMAN
TERRIBLE OLD MAN-THING
FLYING BEINGS
AFRICA’S SKY-CREATURES
ANGLEY WOOD DRAGON
BIRD PEOPLE OF BRAZIL
BLACK-WINGED BEAST
BRENTFORD GRIFFIN
CHILE MONSTER
DRAGON
EAST TEXAS AIRBORNE ENIGMA
FLYING SERPENTS
FLYING WOMAN OF VIETNAM
HOUSTON BATMAN
HOUSTON SPACE CENTER MOTHMAN
HYTHE MOTHMAN
MEXICAN WITCH
MOTHMAN
NEEDWOOD FOREST’S FLYING MONSTER
NEVADA BIRD-MONSTER
NINETEENTH-CENTURY PTERODACTYL
O’DONNELL’S HIDEOUS BIRD
OWLMAN
PHANTOM BIRD
PTERODACTYL OF ENGLAND
SOUTH AMERICAN MONSTER BIRDS
VAN METER MONSTER
WINGED MAN
WINONA’S FEARSOME FLIERS
WYVERN
VAMPIRES AND BLOODSUCKERS
BLADENBORO VAMPIRE
BLOODSUCKING MONSTER OF THE ARECIBO OBSERVATORY
CHUPACABRA
FLORIDA CHUPACABRA
MOCA VAMPIRE
RHAYADER BLOODSUCKER
RUSSIAN CHUPACABRA
SLAUGHTERER AT THE ZOO
MONSTERS OF MAGIC AND MIND
DANCING DEVIL
DOVER DEMON
EL CUCUY
FLYING DEMON
GLASTONBURY GARGOYLE
GWRACH Y RHIBYN
JERSEY DEVIL
LINCOLN IMP
MIND-MONSTER OF THE OLD ABBEY
NIGHT HAG
TAIGHEIRM TERRORS
TROLLS
TULPA
UFO CREATURES
CRITTERS OF THE SKY
CROP CIRCLE CREATURES
FLATWOODS MONSTER
KELLY-HOPKINSVILLE GOBLINS
LOCH NESS’S OTHER MONSTERS
MINI-FROGMEN
THING IN DISGUISE
FURTHER READING
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N1ick Redfern is the author of thirty books on UFOs, Bigfoot, conspiracies, and Hollywood scandals, including VIP’s Secret History: Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to the New World Order, The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead (with Brad Steiger), and The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti, and Cryptid Primates. He has appeared on more than seventy TV shows, including: Fox News; the BBC’s Out of This World; the SyFy Channel’s Proof Positive; the Space Channel’s Fields of Fear; the History Channel’s Monster Quest, America’s Book of Secrets, Ancient Aliens, and UFO Hunters; Science’s The Unexplained Files; the National Geographic Channel’s Paranatural; and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Originally from the UK, Nick lives on the fringes of Dallas, Texas. He can be contacted at his blog, http://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com.
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Slenderman
Terrible Old Man-Thing
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