With only around six weeks until the publication date of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters (I can’t believe I just typed that), it feels appropriate
If you’ve read an Advanced Reader Copy* of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters, you know I start my book off with a single quote: “Monsters
Sunsets are romantic, right? You and your honey decide to hike into the Mogollon Rim in Arizona, pick a place above the pine forest lowlands
It’s very late. You’re alone. You were sleeping until suddenly you weren’t. You have to pee, or you turned over wrong and pulled something in
The name alone fills me with glee: Kushtaka, the trickster wereotters. That’s right: not werewolves—wereotters. Alaska is one of those places where anything seems possible.
Far be it from me to question whether something is or is not technically a cryptid, but this month’s monster feels more like a random
It’s not super common to find a cryptid story that has a serious body count—usually cryptids just wander about scaring people, maybe eating a chicken
The Beast of Bray Road has to be nearly a hundred years old—at least that’s when the rumors started. In 1936 came the report of
If you’ve seen the 1990 film Tremors, you have insight into this month’s feature cryptid. The Graboid, the fictional sandworm that tears everything apart in
It’s the early 1900s, and you’re traveling across Frederick County, Maryland. A huge shadow passes over you and your horse, and maybe you don’t think
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