SHARING SOME MONSTROUSLY-ENTERTAINING CRYPTO-CREATURE FEATURE REVIEWS IN FORTEAN TIMES!

 Frontcover of the current issue (#446, dated July 2024) of the British monthlymagazine Fortean Times, featuringyours truly as its cover star! (© David Sutton/Etienne Gilfillan/Fortean Times/Diamond Publishing Limited– reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis foreducational/review purposes only)

One of ShukerNature's several sisterblogs and now in its fifth year of existence, my film review blog ShukerIn MovieLand hits the big time! A selection of itsFortean (and especially monster)-themed creature feature reviews has been compiledby me in the form of a monstrously-entertaining front-cover-linked lead articlethat has been published in the current issue (#446, dated July 2024) of theiconic British monthly magazine ForteanTimes, or simply FT to itsworldwide array of fans.

FT via its countle4sscontributors and readers down through the decades has been steadfastlyreporting and investigating across the vast and thoroughly fascinating spectrumof mysterious phenomena ever since the early 1970s (when it started out as The News), and I am very privileged tohave been contributing articles and news reports (the latter via my regular,longstanding Alien Zoo column) ever since the 1990s, concentrating uponcryptozoology and animal anomalies of every conceivable (and inconceivable!) kind.

Moreover, as readers of Shuker InMovieLand already know (as do more than a fair few ShukerNature readers too), Iam also passionately interested in movies, particularly fantasy and scifi-themed ones, but never more so than those that incorporate monsters andother mystery or fantastical beasts. So in my latest FT article as now highlighted here, I have collated a diverseselection of my Shuker In MovieLand reviews of creature features that I have verymuch enjoyed watching over the years. And I hope that it will encourage ShukerNature'snumerous fellow beast-movie buffs to watch and enjoy them now too.

I'm not going to say anything moreregarding my article's contents, so as not to spoil the surprises awaiting FT readers, but I do wish to express mysincere thanks to FT's editor DavidSutton and its art director Etienne Gilfillan for making my article an FT reality, with Etienne not only doingus all proud in not only assembling the dazzling collection of illustrationsaccompanying its text but also creating the front cover's truly amazing associatedartwork!

  Anothermagazine front-cover appearance, from issue #14 (November 1997) of the nowlong-defunct British monthly magazine Uri Geller's Encounters, to whichI contributed a number of cryptozoological articles ( © Nina Pendred/Paragon Publishing Ltd – reproduced here on a strictly non-commercialFair Use basis for educational/review purposes only)

No doubt you'll recognize the veryhandsome chap (cough cough!) attired in best Indiana Jones accoutrements takingcentre stage on the FT cover as heprepares to cinematically confront a veritable host of horrors...and that'sjust the audience! – ormost of it. For I also wish to highlight the delightful fact that the happylittle lady with the extra-large box of popcorn is none other than my dear littleMom, Mary Shuker, who always enjoyed watching monster movies with me back inthe good old days. How I wish that she were still here, to know that she wasnow a front-cover star! She would have been so proud. Thank you so much,Etienne, for such a wonderful and very touching tribute to her.

So, be sure to seek out and purchase acopy of FT #446 if you can (it's outnow!), and have a monstrously good time reading about some very varied creaturefeatures of the cryptozoological and zoomythological kind. Go on, you know youwant to!

For mor information concerning FT, please click here to visit its official website.

Finally:to view a complete chronological listing of all of my Shuker In MovieLandblog's film reviews and articles (each one instantly accessible via a directclickable link), please click HERE, and please click HERE to view acomplete fully-clickable alphabetical listing of them.

  Close-upof the front cover of FT #446,showing Mom happily selling popcorn to a truly beastly audience! (© DavidSutton/Etienne Gilfillan/Fortean Times/DiamondPublishing Limited – reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Usebasis for educational/review purposes only)