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American Monsters

Linda S. Godfrey
American Monsters Book PDF

Author : Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101625286

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From pre-Columbian legends to modern-day eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive guide covers the history, sightings and lore surrounding the most mysterious monsters in America—including Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, and more. Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and thunderbirds aren’t just figments of our overactive imaginations—according to thousands of eyewitnesses, they exist, in every corner of the United States. Throughout America’s history, shocked onlookers have seen unbelievable creatures of every stripe—from sea serpents to apelike beings, giant bats to monkeymen—in every region. Author, investigator, and creature expert Linda S. Godfrey brings the same fearless reporting she lent to Real Wolfmen to this essential guide, using historical record, present-day news reports, and eyewitness interviews to examine this hidden menagerie of America’s homegrown beasts.

North American Monsters

David J. Puglia
North American Monsters Book PDF

Author : David J. Puglia
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646421602

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North American Monsters by David J. Puglia Pdf

Mining a mountain of folklore publications, North American Monsters unearths decades of notable monster research. Nineteen folkloristic case studies from the last half-century examine legendary monsters in their native habitats, focusing on ostensibly living creatures bound to specific geographic locales. A diverse cast of scholars contemplate these alluring creatures, feared and beloved by the communities that host them—the Jersey Devil gliding over the Pine Barrens, Lieby wriggling through Lake Lieberman, Char-Man stalking the Ojai Valley, and many, many more. Embracing local stories, beliefs, and traditions while neither promoting nor debunking, North American Monsters aspires to revive scholarly interest in local legendary monsters and creatures and to encourage folkloristic monster legend sleuthing.

The Field Guide to North American Monsters

W. Haden Blackman
The Field Guide to North American Monsters Book PDF

Author : W. Haden Blackman
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000033410920

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The Field Guide to North American Monsters by W. Haden Blackman Pdf

This unique field guide draws on modern sightings, folklore, urban legends, and mythology to give novices all they need to begin a fearless foray into the world of monsterology. 75 photos.

Real Wolfmen

Linda S. Godfrey
Real Wolfmen Book PDF

Author : Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101597644

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Real Wolfmen by Linda S. Godfrey Pdf

What’s hiding in the woods? Here is the definitive account of today’s nationwide sightings of upright, canine creatures – which resemble traditional werewolves – and a thorough exploration of the nature and possible origins of the mysterious beast. “She has the ability to send chills up and down your spine.” —Brad Steiger, author of Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places “If you thought the likes of The Wolfman, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and Underworld had no basis in fact, it's time to think again!” —Nick Redfern, author of There's Something in the Woods “Real Wolfmen is a riveting work of amazing scope and depth. You’ll be hooked from the first page.”--Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author of The Encyclopedia of Vampires and Werewolves The U.S. has been invaded – if many dozens of eyewitnesses are to be believed – by upright, canine creatures that look like traditional werewolves and act as if they own our woods, fields, and highways. Sightings from coast to coast dating back to the 1930s compel us to ask exactly what these beasts are, and what they want. Researcher, author and newspaper reporter Linda S. Godfrey has been tracking the manwolf since the early 1990. In Real Wolfmen she presents the only large-scale cataloguing and investigation of reports of modern sightings of anomalous, upright canids. First-person accounts from Godfrey’s witnesses – who have encountered these creatures everywhere from outside their car windows to face-to-face on a late night stroll – describe the same human-sized canines: They are able to walk upright and hold food in their paws, interact fearlessly with humans, and suddenly and mysteriously disappear. Godfrey explores the most compelling cases from the modern history of such sightings, along with the latest reports, and undertakes a thorough exploration of the nature and possible origins of the creature.

American Monsters

Jack Newfield,Mark Jacobson
American Monsters Book PDF

Author : Jack Newfield,Mark Jacobson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1560255544

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With specially commissioned essays by veteran chroniclers such as Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin, this collection spotlights 40 profiles of history's most celebrated and notorious Americans: the corrupt, greedy, power-mad, and vicious betrayers of the dreams of fair play and equal opportunity.

North American Lake Monsters

Nathan Ballingrud
North American Lake Monsters Book PDF

Author : Nathan Ballingrud
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618730619

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North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud Pdf

Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingrud's intense focus makes these stories incredibly intense and irresistible. These are love stories. And also monster stories. Sometimes these are monsters in their traditional guises, sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, or ourselves. The often working-class people in these stories are driven to extremes by love. Sometimes, they are ruined; sometimes redeemed. All are faced with the loneliest corners of themselves and strive to find an escape. Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in the South. He worked as a bartender in New Orleans and New York City and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His story "The Monsters of Heaven" won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his daughter.

Monsters in America

W. Scott Poole
Monsters in America Book PDF

Author : W. Scott Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN : 1481308823

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Monsters are here to stay.--Christopher James Blythe "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture"

Chasing American Monsters

Jason Offutt
Chasing American Monsters Book PDF

Author : Jason Offutt
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738760063

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STEP RIGHT UP and BEHOLD a stupendous COLLECTION of over 250 FEARSOME and FANTASTICAL CREATURES from Every State in the Union! The Black Dog of Hanging Hills, the Tommyknockers of Pennsylvania, the Banshee of the Badlands—these beasts and hundreds more will hold you spellbound, unable to look away from their frightful features and their extraordinary stories. Come face to face with modern-day dinosaurs, extraterrestrials, dragons, lizard men, giants, and flying humanoids. This illustrated collection includes more than 250 monsters and cryptids that will make your hair stand on end when you hear something go bump in the night. From Alabama to Wyoming and everywhere in between, these enigmatic abominations lurk in the darkest corners and the deepest shadows. This eye-opening book details the origins, appearance, and behaviors of these bizarre creatures so that if you should come across a terrifying beast in the wild, you'll know exactly what you're dealing with. Praise: "Jason Offutt does a special service to the field of cryptozoology with this new book Chasing American Monsters. By keeping all of us up-to-date and incredibly informed—beyond the scope of lesser guidebooks—we have a better head start on knowing where to look for these cryptids. Highly recommended."—Loren Coleman, author of Cryptozoology A to Z and director of the International Cryptozoology Museum

American Monsters (The Demon Road Trilogy, Book 3)

Derek Landy
American Monsters The Demon Road Trilogy Book 3 Book PDF

Author : Derek Landy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780008157074

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American Monsters (The Demon Road Trilogy, Book 3) by Derek Landy Pdf

The epic conclusion in the mind-blowing supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant.

Chasing American Monsters

Jason Offutt
Chasing American Monsters Book PDF

Author : Jason Offutt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
ISBN : 0738759953

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"Over 250 creatures, cryptids, & hairy beasts"--Cover.

American Monster

Paul Semonin
American Monster Book PDF

Author : Paul Semonin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814781203

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American Monster by Paul Semonin Pdf

Examines the thoughts and myths surrounding the excavation of the first complete mastodon skeleton in 1801 and explores how the mastodon became the symbol of American national identity.

Reading Chuck Palahniuk

Cynthia Kuhn,Lance Rubin
Reading Chuck Palahniuk Book PDF

Author : Cynthia Kuhn,Lance Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135254681

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Reading Chuck Palahniuk by Cynthia Kuhn,Lance Rubin Pdf

Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk's innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and the new essays in this collection offer fascinating insights about Palahniuk's texts, contexts, contributions, and controversies. Addressing novels from Fight Club through Snuff, as well as his nonfiction, this volume will be valuable to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary literature.

Walking to Aldebaran

Adrian Tchaikovsky
Walking to Aldebaran Book PDF

Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786181961

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Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky Pdf

I’M LOST. I’M SCARED. AND THERE’S SOMETHING HORRIBLE IN HERE. My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw. I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived. Now I’m lost, and alone, and scared, and there’s something horrible in here. Lucky me. Lucky, lucky, lucky. A new standalone novella by the Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time.

Pretend We're Dead

Annalee Newitz
Pretend We re Dead Book PDF

Author : Annalee Newitz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822387855

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Pretend We're Dead by Annalee Newitz Pdf

In Pretend We’re Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. Ravaged by overwork, alienated by corporate conformity, and mutilated by the unfettered lust for profit, fictional monsters act out the problems with an economic system that seems designed to eat people whole. Newitz looks at representations of serial killers, mad doctors, the undead, cyborgs, and unfortunates mutated by their involvement with the mass media industry. Whether considering the serial killer who turns murder into a kind of labor by mass producing dead bodies, or the hack writers and bloodthirsty actresses trapped inside Hollywood’s profit-mad storytelling machine, she reveals that each creature has its own tale to tell about how a freewheeling market economy turns human beings into monstrosities. Newitz tracks the monsters spawned by capitalism through b movies, Hollywood blockbusters, pulp fiction, and American literary classics, looking at their manifestations in works such as Norman Mailer’s “true life novel” The Executioner’s Song; the short stories of Isaac Asimov and H. P. Lovecraft; the cyberpunk novels of William Gibson and Marge Piercy; true-crime books about the serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer; and movies including Modern Times (1936), Donovan’s Brain (1953), Night of the Living Dead (1968), RoboCop (1987), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001). Newitz shows that as literature and film tell it, the story of American capitalism since the late nineteenth century is a tale of body-mangling, soul-crushing horror.

Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories

Dan SaSuWeh Jones
Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters Chilling American Indian Stories Book PDF

Author : Dan SaSuWeh Jones
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338681635

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Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan SaSuWeh Jones Pdf

Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from a breadth of American Indian nations. Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood. Some of the creatures in these pages might only have a message for you, but some are the stuff of nightmares. These thirty-two short stories -- from tales passed down for generations to accounts that could have happened yesterday -- are collected from the thriving tradition of ghost stories in American Indian cultures across North America. Prepare for stories of witches and walking dolls, hungry skeletons, La Llorona and Deer Woman, and other supernatural beings ready to chill you to the bone. Dan SaSuWeh Jones (Ponca Nation) tells of his own encounters and selects his favorite spooky, eerie, surprising, and spine-tingling stories, all paired with haunting art by Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva). So dim the lights (or maybe turn them all on) and pick up a story...if you dare.