Monster! The AZ of Zooform Phenomena edition by Neil Arnold Shuker Karl Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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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.
Monster! The AZ of Zooform Phenomena edition by Neil Arnold Shuker Karl Politics Social Sciences eBooks
When it comes to zooform phenomena, those reported creatures who seem to be something other than flesh-and-blood animals, this book is an excellence source for info. The sheer number of beings included within is truly impressive.The author notes that he supports the idea that things like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, sea serpents and various other cryptids are animals that remain undiscovered. However, he also points out that there are many sightings of creatures that don't seem to be ordinary physical beings, but something else. These are the zooforms.
It should be noted that not all the beings in the guide are actually zooforms. Some are creatures the author admits could be undiscovered animal species. Some are, or could be, just distorted accounts of known animals. And some are ones the author admits turned out to be just tall tales or hoaxes.
Nevertheless, we still plenty of cases of things that could well be genuine zooforms. Perhaps the most prominently featured ones are various forms of the Black Dog phenomena, which may well be the most common (or at least one of the most common) of all zooforms. We also see plenty of other varieties of zooform.
Each featured being is given a star rating, ranging from one star to four, highlighting things like how well known it is or how likely it is. For instance, beings that were shown to be hoaxes or tall tales or that are only known from old tales but with no known sightings will get just one star. Beings backed up by numerous consistent sightings over a long time would get four stars. And so on.
The star rating system is, I think, a very useful thing for helping to evaluate all the featured beings.
The book provides very little info on most of the featured beings. It also does not discuss what zooforms might actually be, though it gives some small hints here and there. That's understandable though, as with the sheer number of beings included, there's only so much that can be fitted into the book. And the book is more a guide to the different varieties of zooform rather than a discussion of what the phenomena might actually be.
Whatever one's opinions on the zooform phenomena, this book is a useful guide.
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Monster! The AZ of Zooform Phenomena edition by Neil Arnold Shuker Karl Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
If you like concise extracts of weird things people have claimed to have witnessed, this is it. And Neil, if you are reading this, write another one, please!
The first of its kind, Neil Arnold's 'Monster - The A-Z of Zooform Phenomena' is truly a literary wonder. Ambitious and well written, 'Monster' is the first book to ever attempt to chronicle in one volume the multitude of zooforms that have terrified mankind since the beginning of our species. Not to be mistaken for another cryptid book, 'zooforms' (a term coined in 1990 by Jon Downes of the CFZ), by definition, are supernatural manifestations in animal, or quasi-animal, form, spectral creatures which only briefly visit this world from the twilight dimensions of some other time and place beyond human reckoning.Packed with hundreds of entries describing spectral entities from all over the world, 'Monster' shows us that we are not alone here in our own dimension; that we are being visited by a host of anomalies from phantom felids and hell-hounds to shape-shifting werewolves, griffins, dwarves, waterhorses and winged humanoids which cannot possibly be flesh and blood entities. At just under 400 pages in length this book is sure to provide the reader with hour after hour of beastly delights. As a Fortean writer myself I can appreciate the monumental effort that has gone into producing such a mammoth tome and whole-heartedly applaud Arnold's attention to the detailed research he's put into it. Invaluable as a reference guide, 'Monster' is a must have addition to any Fortean library. Extremely entertaining and thought provoking, this book is most highly recommended to anyone interested in learning just what type of monsters may lurk in the shadows of our world, waiting patiently for unwary passersby. Best read in the safety of one's well lighted living room. A monumental effort!
B.M.nunnelly
Author - 'Mysterious Kentucky'
As an author in the strange-creature genre, I'm always looking for new, comprehensive and well-researched reference books. It helps if they are fun, besides. Neil Arnold's new "MONSTER!" book hits each of those nails on their warty, pointy-eared heads. Even Karl P. Shuker, a pre-eminent writer and researcher in this field who wrote the foreword, confesses to finding entries in Arnold's book of creatures he had never before heard or dreamt of. Arranged alphabetically for easy look-up, the entries also contain brief commentaries on the "zooform" likelihood of the creature in question, explaining their relation to other known or unknown entities and opinions on the reliability of the report. Arnold also enforces his own ratings system, from 1-4 stars, on the solidity of each entry.
Speaking of solidity, Arnold makes it clear up front that he believes many of the creatures described in the book are "zooform" or non-flesh-and-blood in nature. He does his best to sort them out, which increases the book's usefulness as a reference source. "Mystery cats," for instance, rate 3 stars and the comment that they are simply out-of-place felids, while the Karakura, "a vague night-demon from Turkish lore" rates only one star and a note that too little is known about it.
I rate Arnold's book five stars, with the comment that anyone wanting to bone up on unknown creatures throughout world history will want MONSTERS! at their fingertips. And I'm still swooning over the revelation of Japanese vampire cats and the High Hat Sasquatch. - Linda S. Godfrey, author Strange Wisconsin; More Badger State Weirdness, The Beast of Bray Road, and Hunting the American Werewolf.
When it comes to zooform phenomena, those reported creatures who seem to be something other than flesh-and-blood animals, this book is an excellence source for info. The sheer number of beings included within is truly impressive.
The author notes that he supports the idea that things like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, sea serpents and various other cryptids are animals that remain undiscovered. However, he also points out that there are many sightings of creatures that don't seem to be ordinary physical beings, but something else. These are the zooforms.
It should be noted that not all the beings in the guide are actually zooforms. Some are creatures the author admits could be undiscovered animal species. Some are, or could be, just distorted accounts of known animals. And some are ones the author admits turned out to be just tall tales or hoaxes.
Nevertheless, we still plenty of cases of things that could well be genuine zooforms. Perhaps the most prominently featured ones are various forms of the Black Dog phenomena, which may well be the most common (or at least one of the most common) of all zooforms. We also see plenty of other varieties of zooform.
Each featured being is given a star rating, ranging from one star to four, highlighting things like how well known it is or how likely it is. For instance, beings that were shown to be hoaxes or tall tales or that are only known from old tales but with no known sightings will get just one star. Beings backed up by numerous consistent sightings over a long time would get four stars. And so on.
The star rating system is, I think, a very useful thing for helping to evaluate all the featured beings.
The book provides very little info on most of the featured beings. It also does not discuss what zooforms might actually be, though it gives some small hints here and there. That's understandable though, as with the sheer number of beings included, there's only so much that can be fitted into the book. And the book is more a guide to the different varieties of zooform rather than a discussion of what the phenomena might actually be.
Whatever one's opinions on the zooform phenomena, this book is a useful guide.
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