The Field Guide to North American Monsters: Everything You Need to Know About Encountering Over 100 Terrifying Creatures in the Wild

by W. Haden Blackman and Ghassan Zeineddine

This unique field guide draws on modern sightings, folklore, urban legends, and mythology to give novices all they need to begin a fearless foray into the world of monsterology. 75 photos. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609800175
• ISBN13: 9780609800171
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

STOP WINING AND OPEN UP YOUR MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've read some nasty reviews here, but rest assured that this book is one of the most organized and interesting you'll ever read on the subject. Personally, I love this book because of the way Blackman combines supernaturalism and cryptozoology into a realistic zoological field guide. Plus, the tips on how to hunt monsters give you something to do on boring days. I can't get enough of the enigmatic monsters in this marvelous book, and I really think you should give it a chance. So open up your mind, open up this book, and let it work its magic. Remember, it may come in handy some day...

A MUST-HAVE REFERENCE TOOL.

This book came in handy on a journey involving myself and 4 old friends last summer. The trip, which lasted a long and harrowing weekend, was spent in the great outdoors consuming large quantities of flavorful malt beverages and searching for such dread creatures as the infamous Skunk Ape -- we saw several, I might add. They were wearing beat-up old orange hunting vests and "Freightliner" baseball caps. Without this book to guide us, we'd probably have mistaken these Skunk Apes for truckers. I give this book a 4 monster rating!! PS- Hey gang, lighten up.

A fun and imaginative story.

In this book you can venture into the weird and unknown. It is fun to find out about zany mosters like the sand squink or rubberdaroo. This book tells many interesting facts, like what Bigfoot likes to read. Overall it was a really good book.

Engaging and thoroughly executed.

Mr. Blackman's handling of his subject matter is precise and affectionate. Without the ostentation of a pseudo-scientific account, he manages the delicate balance between fiction and real possibility with candor and lively interest.It's a book I imagine would appeal to a wide range of readers, including me -- a woman with only marginal knowledge or former interest in these topics. This is partly due to Blackman's fluid and engaging writing style. More than that, though, I found that my own curiosities about the difference between myth and reality mirrored in his explanations of everything from proof that the creature might exist to plausible explanations for its mythological creation.In the end, I came away with an unexpected conviction that some of these guys must exist in some form (something I've never believed at all before) as well as a respect for the well-established place of the mythological creature in our cultural imagination.I recommend it as a gift for particularly creative and imaginative readers.

A fantastic book, full of information about the unknown.

To put it simply, this is a good book. I could not put it down once I started reading it. It is divided into catagories, and covers creatures ranging from Bigfoot (Sasquatch) to the boogeyman. It provides clues on how to find these animals (if they do really exist) and rates your chances of encountering it from 1 to 4 (1 being very low, 4 being very high.)