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A Padwolf Publishing Title
Horror Anthology
Publication Date: August 2006
Edited by Bruce Gehweiler
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Trade Paperback: 1890096334
$15.00, 6 x 9, 198 pages


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Reviews

"Imaginative, provocative and thoroughly enjoyable...this is a smart little collection of tales that travels
from the unknown into the fantastic and everywhere inbetween. A fun read for all ages."
—Dave Elliot, editor of A Field Guide to Monsters

"If your looking for weird and bizzare, unusual and unworldly, then look no further
than Crypto-Critters. I couldn't get enough!"
—Michael D. Pederson, Nth Degree: The Fiction & Fandom 'Zine

Back Cover Copy

There are all manner of creatures in this world. Our planet boasts billions of different types of mammals, insects, crustaceans, et cetera. In the air or in the water, on the land or under it, life teems in wonderous abundance. And every year new species are being discovered. Some in the most remote places on the planet. Some in our own backyards. Most are benign, harmless. Most, but not all.

This is a collection of speculative fiction covering the controversial world of cryptozoology. Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, el chupacabra—these are the names that stir our planet, hiding from an ever inquisitive mankind.
Award winning-editor Bruce Gehweiler has gathered some of the finest stories available today for this two volume set of tales which might be fiction...and might not. In this first volume alone, he's packed award winners like Teddy London creator C.J. Henderson and "Punktown" author Jeffrey Thomas, fan favorites like James Chambers and Scott Thomas, classic storytellers such as screenwriter R. Allen Leider and free-style wildman Patrick Thomas, and most interesting of all, zoology professor and former researcher at the J.B. Rhine Parapsychology Laboratories, Graham Watkins.

Series Reviews

"For the best creepy adventures, the Crypto-Critters series has got it all!"
—Wayne Evans, Spine Tingling Reviews

"Strange and engaging fictional tales of cryptozoology-the pseudo-science
of monster hunting—a fun read indeed!"
—Doug Fernbank, Paleontologist