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Karl P N Shuker
From quagga queries and a dancing worm debacle to hodag horrors and beastly bewilderment of the Gevaudan variety, veteran cryptozoologist Dr Karl Shuker is back with a fourth compendium of…
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Karl N Shuker
Dr Karl Shuker has long been world-renowned for his numerous cryptozoological books, articles, and ShukerNature blog posts, but in 2009 his writings took a new and very unexpected, hitherto-unsuspected direction…
Cryptozoology – the study of hidden animals – is gaining attention thanks to a startling number of zoological discoveries. Karl P.N. Shuker has collected evidence of these mysterious, somewhat mythical…
Welcome to a carnival unlike anything that you have ever read about, visited, or even imagined before. Here, before your very eyes, you will encounter bizarre, anomalous creatures of every…
In this second compilation of Dr. Karl Shuker’s popular natural history blog, he examines a wide range of strange creatures and alleged mystery animals, from Australian monkeys and the Big…
Dr Karl P.N. Shuker continues his forays into cryptozoology and animal mythology with a detailed examination of the world’s serpent mysteries, from possible unknown species to strange behaviors attributed to…
The spectacular front-cover painting by American artist Michael J. Smith, depicting 17 astonishing mystery beasts and other controversial entities, was the inspiration for this latest book by leading cryptozoologist Dr…
Karl P. N Shuker
There has never been a more popular time for dinosaurs and all things dinosaurian. From blockbuster films packed with breathtaking CGI effects, children’s television and video cartoons, computer games, CD-ROMs…
Mystery Cats of the World Revisited investigates the breadth and depth of the mystery cat phenomenon around the world. What are these enigmatic cat-like animals that have been glimpsed in…
Nessie the Loch Ness monster (LNM) is not only the premier mystery beast of the United Kingdom, it also vies with the bigfoot or sasquatch as the most famous one…
Of all the countless legendary beasts that have been conjured forth from the seemingly limitless capacity of the human imagination, none can remotely compare with the dragon for its sheer…
A collection of some of the most popular blog posts by Dr. Karl Shuker, on wonderfully weird animals, zoomythology, cryptozoology, and more.
This third compilation of Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker's ShukerNature blog articles delves into a delectable variety of curious zoological subjects, from the Nandi bear and jungle walruses to striped mantas…
Karl Shuker
Previous eds. published as: The lost ark. London: HarperCollins, 1993, and The new zoo. Thirsk, [England]: House of Stratus, 2001.
Neil Arnold
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…
Jonathan Downes
Although much has been written in recent years about the mystery big cats which have been reported stalking Westcountry moorlands, little has been written on the subject of the smaller…
David C Xu
‘Mystery Creatures of China’ is one of the most exciting additions to the cryptozoological literature in years. Lake monsters, man-beasts, mystery cats, and other strange creatures reported throughout China are…
Karl P. N. Shuker
This delightful book is the long-awaited, greatly-expanded new edition of one of Dr Karl Shuker’s much-loved early volumes, Extraordinary Animals Worldwide. It is a fascinating celebration of what used to…
Dr Karl Shuker revisits his 1995 classic, In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, with this expanded and updated edition. This comprehensive documentation of alleged cryptozoological survivors from the past will be…
The Centre for Fortean Zoology
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) is the only professional, scientific, and full-time organization dedicated to cryptozoology–the study of unknown animals. This volume is the account of a November 2007…
Following the demise of Cryptozoology (published by the now-defunct International Society of Cryptozoology), there has been no peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to cryptozoology for quite some time. Consequently, the Journal…
