Audio: "From Cryptids to Kaijū" on MonsterTalk
Ahead of my appearance at G-FEST XXIX to discuss my new essay "From Cryptids to Kaijū" I return to MonsterTalk to discuss the same with Blake and Karen.
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Topic: Cryptozoology
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G-FEST XXIX Panel: "From Cryptids to Kaijū"
My hit panel for G-FEST XXIX on the history of cryptozoology in Japan
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Thomas Jefferson, Cryptozoologist
My dissertation argues that Jefferson’s hunt for living mastodons, giant moose and colossal lions makes him an early practitioner of what we now call cryptozoology. The full text is below.
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"From Cryptids to Kaijū: Exploring Heterodox Palaeoscience with Godzilla"
Cryptozoology is usually discussed as a western phenomenon. Folklore and the Godzilla films suggest otherwise. My article in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews' Heterodox Paleoscience Special Issue.
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Video: In Search of the Unknown: The Cryptozoological Fiction of Robert W. Chambers
An online lecture for The Last Tuesday Society on a 1904 novel that imagined cryptozoology decades before the word existed.
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Review: Merbeings by Hall, Coleman & Goudsward
Mark A. Hall's posthumous treatise on the putative biological identity of merbeings embodies the ultimate litmus test for cryptozoology.
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Audio: Cryptofiction - Mystery Animals in Fiction
Justin Mullis returns to Wide Atlantic Weird to guide listeners through the wild world of 'Cryptofiction' where reality and fantasy collide and blur.
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Review: The United States of Cryptids by J.W. Ocker
I was expecting this book to be pretty lightweight in its consideration of the topic at hand, and while it was definitely a fun and easy read, it was also very well researched with a number of astute observations about cryptozoology.
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