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ShukerNature Book 4 - Tijuana's Zebras, Turkana's Dancing Worms, and Other Impossible Blog Beasts

ShukerNature Book 4 - Tijuana's Zebras, Turkana's Dancing Worms, and Other Impossible Blog Beasts (Coachwhip Publications: Greenville, 2024); ISBN 978-1-61646-588-9. Pb, 415 pp, colour & b/w pix, bibliography, index.

Available from all good bookstores, including Amazon UK and Amazon USA.

Even when dealing with cryptozoology's variously, (in)famously elusive and illusive subjects, there are certain examples that test the credulity of even the most open-minded, objective of investigators. This is because, based at least upon their descriptions, they appear to be, albeit for many different reasons, simply impossible. Not implausible, not unlikely, not unfeasible, not inconngruous, but impossible - or are they?

After all, who could believe in the existence of dragonflies with 6-ft wingspans, or spiders so huge that they can hunt down soldiers in the heart of Louisiana, or an unrealistically-reclusive Vietnamese deer whose antlers inexplicably resemble the horns on a Viking's helmet, or a rapacious Beast (or Beasts) that carried out wanton slaughtering of terrified rural peasants despite the most concerted efforts made to end this very different Reign of Terror in France and still remain unidentified over 300 years later, or all manner of kangaroo-like cryptids keeping researchers on the hop far beyond their Australasian homeland? Yet these have all been soberly reported, by sober observers.

And what are the fascinating stories behind the horrific, hideous, horn-bearing hodag, or Tijuana's delightfully faux 'zebras', or the prehistoric worms that dance beneath a tropical African moon and kill with a single bite, or how to lose a multi-headed chimaera from Greek mythology but encounter the skull of a legendary Cornish sea monster, or how a magnificent yet hitherto-unrecorded painting of what may conceivably be a murderous mystery cat from Tanzania was discovered wholly by chance in an English charity shop?

So, it's time to suspend disbelief and suppress doubt - courtesy of world-renowned cryptozoologist Dr Karl Shuker, returning here with a fourth compilation of fascinating articles excerpted and expanded from his award-winning blog ShukerNature, now in its 16th year - and prepare instead to encounter the reputedly unaccountable, witness the allegedly unimaginable, and be impressed by the ostensibly impossible!

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