The full title is Monsters Among Us: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena. If you want to believe, this is the book for you. If you don't want to believe, well, it's still going to be fun because it's full of eyewitness accounts from people who have seen (or claim to have see) some mighty strange things. I don't know if you've ever read Lew Shiner's story "Lizardmen of Los Angeles," but it's a good one (and it's free at the link). In Godfrey's book you can find out about the real (or unreal) thing.
Some of the stories here are old, some are new, and there's something to appeal to just about anybody curious about cryptids and other creatures. If you're a skeptic who can't be persuaded to suspend disbelief, then maybe this isn't for you. Everybody else is in for a good time, though.
Carter Brown, The Plush-Lined Coffin, Signet, 1967
The New York Times: Suzanne Mitchell, who replaced a squad of high school bobby-soxers with a scantily clad chorus line that became a choreographed global brand called the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, died on Tuesday at her home in Fredericksburg, Tex. She was 73.
The New York Times: Oscar Brand, the lanky, affable, gravelly-voiced folk singer and songwriter whose weekly on-air hootenanny was the longest-running radio show in history with a single host, died on Friday at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. He was 96.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Man who got generations singing Oscar Mayer Wiener song dies | WTOP: The man who got generations of hot dog lovers singing along to the Oscar Mayer Wiener song has died.
Richard Trentlage died Sept. 21 in Libertyville, Illinois, at the age of 87, according to an obituary posted online by a northern Illinois funeral home.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Deadline: Larkin Malloy, an actor, voice artist, acting teacher and announcer best known for appearing on various soap operas in the 1980s and ’90s including several seasons as Travis Montgomery on All My Children, has died of complications from a heart attack. He was 62.
Atlas Obscura: Raise a glass to some of the most remote and unlikely watering holes in the far reaches of the world.
The full title is Monsters Among Us: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena. If you want to believe, this is the book for you. If you don't want to believe, well, it's still going to be fun because it's full of eyewitness accounts from people who have seen (or claim to have see) some mighty strange things. I don't know if you've ever read Lew Shiner's story "Lizardmen of Los Angeles," but it's a good one (and it's free at the link). In Godfrey's book you can find out about the real (or unreal) thing.
