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Author
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
This collection of over 250 of the most bloodcurdling and bone-chillingly fascinating and true monster stories includes everything from encounters with bizarre freaks of nature to spine-tingling paranormal entities. Each outlandish tale within this book is taken from newspaper accounts and first-person interviews.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology includes information, interviews, and stories about forty different cryptids seen in various places all over the world by credible eyewitnesses like policemen, rangers, and doctors. Readers will learn where and how to find flying humanoids, hairy humanoids, giants of all kinds including rabbits, bats and spiders, goblins, vampires, werewolves, demons, aliens and ghosts. In the third book of our Weiser Field...
3) Sea monsters
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses where and how these legends began, how they are reflected in different cultures, and how they are understood today.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer koozies, car polish, and CBD oil. Which begs the question: what is it about Bigfoot that's caught hold of our imaginations? Journalist and self-diagnosed skeptic John O'Connor is fascinated by Sasquatch. Curious to learn more, he embarks on a quest through the North American wilds in search of Bigfoot,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dive into the facts behind the most well-known footage of the cryptid and learn about actual scientific studies conducted to learn whether or not Bigfoot actually exists. Filled with accounts of over a century of potential sightings, this book will have every reader looking for footprints on their next hike. Bigfoot has been the star subject of movies, TV shows, books, and more . . . but is he really out there?"--
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ancient rivalry is rekindled when a Hollow Earth scholar receives private funding and wants to use Kong to discover the origin of the Titans. Protected inside a biodome since his discovery in the 70s, Kong was the only kaiju who did not participate in the epic battle against King Gidorah, and Godzilla is determined to become the final apex predator. Meanwhile, the humans begin to suspect that everyone involved is being manipulated by an industry...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 15 hr., 40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Surprising historical research and scientific analysis set the stage for groundbreaking fieldwork and high-tech expeditions to the home turf of famous monsters. Features photographs; videos; and eyewitness accounts.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 611 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The search is on for the earth's most elusive and mysterious monsters. Each episode launches an expedition to uncover a famous mystery creature. Scientists use modern technologies like DNA testing and digital photo analysis to evaluate decades of physical and photographic evidence, while field researchers search for the beast itself. Bigfoot, aquatic dinosaurs, giant squid, mutant canines, man-eating catfish and more will be investigated like never...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvi, 411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Loxton and Prothero complete an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on demonstrably false phenomena, presenting both the arguments for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience perpetuating their myths.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Dial Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson--a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster--is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia, Margery's childhood obsession ever since her father gave...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
47 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 24 x 29 ncm.
Language
English
Description
"Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot, is considered a cryptid--a creature of cryptozoology. What is cryptozoology? According to author and cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, it is the study of creatures not formally recognized by traditional science. It is the quest to understand eyewitness observations that simply cannot be proven via ordinary channels. Coined by French-born zoologist Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans in the 1960s, the term "cryptozoology" is based...
12) Movie monsters
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sea monsters, such as the Kraken and the Loch Ness Monster, are cryptids-creatures whose existence is not yet proven to be true. Cryptozoologists gather stories from folklore and investigate reported sightings. In this guide, you'll find fascinating seamonster facts, including where in the world sea monsters are thought to exist, reported sightings, sea monsters in popular culture, and how to spot a lake monster"--
Author
Publisher
Antarctica Arts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
175 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Willoughby's World of Wonder is a fictional reproduction of the famous 1882 Field Guide to Strange Beasts & Curious Creatures. Willoughby's, as it was popularly known, was created by noted cryptozoologist and naturalist, Angus Willoughby. For half a century, this unique reference guide was used as a textbook in many universities around the globe, and was considered a primary reference of many cryptozoological societies and organizations. Years of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages
Language
English
Description
"Business has been booming since Morgan Carter solved the case of the monster living in Lake Michigan. The Odds and Ends bookstore is thriving, of course, but Morgan is most excited by the doors that were opened for her as a cryptid hunter. Recently, there have been numerous sightings of a Bigfoot-type creature in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest area of Bayfield County, Wisconsin. After a man is found dead from a vicious throat injury in the...
16) Calculated risks
Author
Series
InCryptid volume 10
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
433 pages : genealogical table ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Just when Sarah Zellaby, adopted Price cousin and telepathic ambush predator, thought that things couldn't get worse, she's had to go and prove herself wrong. After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, she has undergone a transformation called an instar, reaching back to her Apocritic origins to metamorphize. While externally the same, she is internally much more powerful, and much more difficult to control.Even by herself. After...
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alexander Price has survived gorgons, basilisks, and his own family--no small feat, considering that his family includes two telepaths, a reanimated corpse, and a colony of talking, pantheistic mice. Still, he's starting to feel like he's got the hang of things ... at least until his girlfriend, Shelby Tanner, shows up asking pointed questions about werewolves and the state of his passport. From there, it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to Australia,...
18) Tricks for free
Author
Series
InCryptid volume 7
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The seventh book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Penance, noun: 1. Punishment for past actions. 2. An attempt to pay for what can't be bought. 3. See also "exile." Antimony Price is on the run. With the Covenant on her tail and her family still in danger, she needs to get far,...
Author
Series
InCryptid volume 11
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
342 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's been fifty years since the crossroads caused the disappearance of Thomas Price and his wife, Alice, has been trying to find him and bring him home ever since, despite the increasing probability that he's no longer alive for her to find. Now that the crossroads have been destroyed, she's redoubling her efforts. It's time to bring him home, dead or alive."--
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. With the wonders of the cosmos open to them, Thomas and Alice Price have returned to the most exciting place they could think of: home. But it's been a while, and they're out of step. What's more, trouble is brewing in New York, trouble that threatens both...
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