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Monsters Among Us | 
 enlarge | Author: Brad Steiger
Publisher: Galde Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 553376
Media: Paperback
Pages: 234
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1931942331
EAN: 9781931942331
ASIN: 1931942331
Publication Date: January 1, 2007
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Product Description
Was that creature you saw on the hillside that night a wolf or something much more? What were those creatures in your dreams? Fantasy or something you might come face to face with one day? Are all these news reports of strange creatures real, or something someone made up? Brad Steiger, well-known psychic researcher, has scoured the world to find evidence for what we call monsters. Steiger has carefully and exhaustively culled the stories, legends, and research about lake creatures, ape men, werewolves, and other frightening creatures. Here are monsters such as the Ghoul of Paris, Hungary's Countess of Blood, entities from UFOs, and beings from beneath the Earth. In this one comprehensive volume, Steiger sets forth the accounts he collected, the proof he uncovered, and the things he cannot explain.
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An adequate, often entertaining summary of cryptozoology and beast related folklore. December 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not often a reviewer. In fact, this is my first review. However, I feel that I must say a couple of words about this book. This is not a cryptozoological study in the style of Karl S Shuker. Nor is it a 'mock-nonfiction' book like the 'Cryptozoological Society's Guide to Magical Beings'. This is a collection of folklore, interviews and incidents about events that Steiger feels have some validity towards his thesis. Unfortunately, said thesis is obscured by a great deal of non-scientific thinking, as Steiger appears to be essentially a paranormalist and a purveyor of tall tales than he is interested in seeking more than a token explanation for them.
In many cases, as in the Ghoul of Paris, a little known incident of vampirism, he provides us with almost nothing in the way of speculation and not much in the way of information, instead choosing to focus on the well-known case of Elisabeth Bathory. It's understandable, but disappointing. In short, if you're looking for an indepth scientific or even pseudoscientific analysis of 'monsters', look elsewhere. However, if you're looking for a collection of folklore, you could do much worse than picking up Monsters Among Us.
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