Monsters In Print: A Collection Of Curious Creatures Known Mostly From Newspapers

by Adam Benedict

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Genuine reports of unbelievable encounters with terrifying beasts from all over the globe!
This collection of over 170+ articles, direct from newspapers of the 1800s and 1900s, brings some of the most bizarre, amazing, and incredible stories of true monster encounters out of the past and into your hands! Presented with zero spin or bias, this book delivers just the facts and allows you, the reader, to decide for yourself if the stories within actually happened or not.
From the funny to the frightening, the sincere to the weird, there is something for everyone within these pages!

Genres: Nonfiction

418 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2019

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its great someone went through a bunch of local newspaper archives in order to find us some real gems of monster stories. Something worth noting is that almost all of them are one local paper reporting events very far away that likely cannot be corroborated by anyone reading.

My favorite section, however, was taken from the multiple vignettes of the famous 1909 Delaware River Valley Jersey Devil sightings:

"Congressman Hiram R. Burton is much interested in the stories of the peregrinations of the Leeds Devil about Philadelphia. He hopes the singular monster of the air and land will develop the qualities of uprooting the Earth, and if it does, he is in favor of raising many of the animals for use in digging out the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal."

[Lucas Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

To be honest I probably only read 60% of it. Not because it wasn't good but it isn't a read every page type book. However reading these old reports of crypto was awesome and the cases I read were great. This will be a definite resource for my podcast. If you like crypto this book is for you. And although I haven't read every case yet I can say that this is an excellent source for the unexplained.

[Andrew Collier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great repository of old newspaper monster stories. I forgot how old the Van Meter Visitor story was, so finding the article in this book was a fun surprise

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great collection of old newspaper reports of strange beasts. Though most are of the "hard to believe" variety, still very entertaining. My only problem was that it was a little heavy on the sea monster stories. I would have liked a little more variety as far as the types of creatures encountered, but there is still plenty of stories about non-water related monsters as well. A cool idea for a book and a fun read.