Cryptids, monsters, undead, yokai - where to find them, what to do about them, and the origins of monster tales
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Freaky Folklore: Terrifying Tales of the World's Most Elusive Monsters and Enigmatic Cryptids
Darkness Prevails
The Monster Theory Reader
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Spectral Spain: Haunted Houses, Silent Spaces and Traumatic Memories in Post-Franco Gothic Fiction (Gothic Literary Studies)
Heidi Backes
Vampires: A Handbook of History & Lore of the Undead
Agnes Hollyhock
Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
Matt Kaplan
Breverton's Phantasmagoria: A Compendium Of Monsters, Myths And Legends
Terry Breverton
The X-Files: The Official Archives: Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena
Paul Terry
A History of Ghosts, Spirits and the Supernatural (DK A History of)
D.K. Publishing
An Anthology of American Strangeness, Vol. 1: Thunderbirds, Lost Temples and Skeleton Ghosts
Kevin Guhl
Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
Daniel Loxton
The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
Irving Finkel
Frightful Folklore of North America: Illustrated Folk Horror from Greenland to the Panama Canal
Mike Bass
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
Colin Dickey
Treasury of Folklore, Woodlands and Forests: Wild Gods, World Trees and Werewolves
Dee Dee Chainey
Treasury of Folklore, Seas and Rivers: Sirens, Selkies And Ghost Ships
How to Kill a Vampire: Fangs in Folklore, Film and Fiction
Liisa Ladouceur
Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters & Mythos from Around the World
Rachel Quinney
The Men of Letters Bestiary: Winchester Family Edition (Supernatural)
Tim Waggoner
Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide (Yokai ATTACK! Series)
Hiroko Yoda
Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
The World of Lore: Dreadful Places
Aaron Mahnke
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
John Blair
I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore
Linda S. Godfrey
The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster Kitsune, Horrendous Oni, and More
Thersa Matsuura
American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America
The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
J.W. Ocker
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