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Zooform Phenomena are the most elusive, and least understood, mystery `animals`. Indeed, they are not animals at all, and are not even animate in the accepted terms of the word, but entities or apparitions which adopt, or seem to have (quasi) animal form. These arcane and contentious entities have plagued cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals - since its inception, and tend to be dismissed by mainstream science as thoroughly unworthy of consideration. But they continue to be seen, and Jonathan Downes - the Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology - who first coined the term in 1990, maintains that many zooforms result from a synergy of complex psychosocial and sociological issues, and suggests that to classify all such phenomena as "paranormal" in origin is counterproductive, and for researchers to dismiss them out of hand is thoroughly unscientific. Author and researcher Neil Arnold is to be commended for a groundbreaking piece of work, and has provided the world's first alphabetical listing of zooforms from around the world.
About the Author
Neil Arnold has had an interest in zooform phenomena,
undiscovered animals and folklore since watching the docu-drama "The Legend
of Boggy Creek" at the age of nine! (It's about a Bigfoot-like monster, if
you want to know).
undiscovered animals and folklore since watching the docu-drama "The Legend
of Boggy Creek" at the age of nine! (It's about a Bigfoot-like monster, if
you want to know).
Neil runs Kent Big Cat Research, and has done for well over a decade,
spending most of his time in the field monitoring exotic felids, as well as
writing articles on non-native, as well as indigenous, felids worldwide. He
has also written authoritatively on the Highgate 'vampire' case, Bigfoot
and lake monsters, as well as owning the biggest collection of
cryptozoology documentaries.
He has appeared on Sky News, the BBC, ITV, radio, and has self-published
two books so far: Odd-Bodies: An Investigation into a Selection of Monsters
Triggered by the Cosmic Mechanism, and Clandestine Creatures: Animals,
Manimals & Monsters of the Mind.
His interests include 1960s culture/fashion, psychedelia, Marc Bolan,
America's elusive 'Zodiac' serial killer, and the films of David Lynch.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Neil Arnold is no armchair cryptozoologist he gets out into the field and gets his hands dirty. He knows how to do research too and it shows in this book. Monster is easily the best A to Z of weird creatures on the market. It contains classic creatures like dragons, werewolves, vampires, lake monsters and such but its real strength lies in the weird and wonderfull 'things' (as Ivan T Sanderson would call them) that you have never heard of before like the Damascus Apartments dog, the Wi-Lu-Gho-Yuk and the Illinois Horror. If you want to know what these things and countless other escapees from the menagerie of the damned read this book.
A must for all forteans.
A must for all forteans.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A truly fasinating insight into the world of zooform.
Wherever you are a researcher, interested, curious, want to learn more or even may have witnessed one of the zooform mentioned, then this book is really worth purchasing.
Neil Arnold has done tremendously in bringing together this A-Z of Zooform phenomena. This book is the first of its kind and is sure to go as a classic.
Wherever you are a researcher, interested, curious, want to learn more or even may have witnessed one of the zooform mentioned, then this book is really worth purchasing.
Neil Arnold has done tremendously in bringing together this A-Z of Zooform phenomena. This book is the first of its kind and is sure to go as a classic.
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I wanted a book that described many myths and legends and folklore and zoological monsters for an art project and this book couldn't of fitted the bill more. Great a to z off every monster or creature you'll ever hear about or not hear about! Very in depth, only downside was I was hoping for a few more illustrations but the descriptions help the imagination.
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