Monday, 22 October 2007
Canadian Radio Book Promotion
Neil will appear on the Richard Syrett Show (Canada) http://www.richardsyrett.com on November 1st 5:00 am (UK Time).
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Neil on Ghost Finder's radio
I'll be on Ghost Finder's Radio, Wednesday 10th October, 2007, at 9-0 pm discussing the book. http://www.ghostfinders.co.uk/
The interview went extremely well. One hour of challenging questions regarding the book, as well as chat with the hosts on a number of paranormal related phenomena.
I'd like to thank Mark for showing an interest. The show can be heard on the website archives.
Friday, 5 October 2007
Man-Monkey : A book pertaining to zooform, by Nick Redfern
There are many legends hidden within the annals of UK folklore, which, since their obscure birth, have demanded attention yet for so long, received none.
The 'Man-Monkey' of Ranton, Shropshire, born in the 1800s, is one of those eerie and strange stories which has finally been give the research and exposure it so richly deserves, because such a subject of horror and intrigue is the stuff classic zooform's are made of.
Nick Redfern, author of 'Three Men Seeking Monsters' and creator of http://www.monsterusa.blogspot.com/ has uncovered a veritable feast of clandestine links, bizarre connections, hideous rumour and peculiar fact in this vital book (published by CFZ Press 2007 Isbn: 978-1-905723-16-4).
From its spawning, the nightmarish prowler of the Union Canal and its surrounding thickets, has appeared as an ape-like yet seemingly supernatural humanoid. Covered in hair, strong and agile, with glowing eyes, said to attack cars, sometimes people, if you believe the first ever sighting from 1879, and such a beast has somehow existed in the local woods and folklore over time, awaiting discovery, and thankfully Nick has wrenched the facts from the foggy myth to present this 147 page necessity to cryptozoology, paranormal and the surreal world of zooform phenomena.
Here, the author unearths a treasure trove of eye-witness testimony, shady characters and other bouts of high strangeness in the area ranging from phantom hounds to large cats, from black magic to weird creatures seen swimming the waters.
Are the varying anomalies linked ? Or is this complex enigma nothing more than murky ghost story ? Is the marauding beast simply offspring of monkey's that escaped many years ago, or truly something abominable from the shadows ? We'll never know the truth behind the Man-Monkey because like so many other zooform creatures, the shadow it casts is always deceptive, the traces it leaves usually confusing, but what Nick has done is provide a thrilling insight not just into a much ignored monster mystery, but a glimpse into the legends of a very strange place.
I couldn't put the book down and so read it in one evening, and I trust that you, dear reader, do the same, always keeping one eye on the darkest corner of the room.
The book is available worldwide.
Saturday, 29 September 2007
The book, in its rawest form.
Back in the day before 'MONSTER! THE A-Z OF ZOOFORM PHENOMENA' become the psychedelic, surreal safari that it is, it was known as 'Alien Zoo: The A-Z O Zooform Phenomena'.The title changed due to connections to Karl Shuker's 'Fortean Times' magazine features, of the same name, which was a monthly crypto-round up.
Several titles were thrown in the cauldron ('Monstrous Manifestations' and 'Monsters From The Closet' just a couple), but I wanted something simple that stuck in people's minds, conjured images of creatures in the closet, beasts in the dark woods, and monsters of the mind, without treading on the toes of other books, but yet still making a statement, in a way 'Jaws' did when it first hit the shelves. Originally, the book, which began life as a four-page article, was going to have a question mark after the title, but the exclamation mark was better, more dramatic in that for me it stated that the book would deal with what we know as monsters, those fleeting shadows from the unknown we fear so much, the bogeymen and other non-specific fears, a "nameless dread" as H.P. Lovecraft once wrote.
Below, is Linda Godfrey's (author of 'The Beast Of Bray Road' and 'Hunting The American Werewolf') review of the book.
SOMEONE ELSE''S BOOK - IT ROCKS!
Greetings and thanks for stopping by to read this. I wanted to start by telling you about someone else's book, a self-published tome by UK friend Neil Arnold, who recently interviewed me for the British publication "Animals and Men." It's called "Alien Zoo, The A-Z of Zooform Phenomena; A Unique Phantom Menagerie of Paranormal Animals, Manimals, Winged Entities and Semi-Mythical Creatures." The title pretty much says it all; Arnold explains zooform animals as "paranormal entities which only appear to be animals." I think that is a very possible explanation for the Beast of Bray Road phenomenon, although I keep the door open yet to all theories.
But the book is a treasure trove listing of every strange creature sighted around the world in recent and not so recent times, from the Arkan Sonney Fairy Pigs to Portland Oregon's Mole Man to Romania's werewolfish Varcolac. With 190 large pages of entries, it's a must-have resource.
Several titles were thrown in the cauldron ('Monstrous Manifestations' and 'Monsters From The Closet' just a couple), but I wanted something simple that stuck in people's minds, conjured images of creatures in the closet, beasts in the dark woods, and monsters of the mind, without treading on the toes of other books, but yet still making a statement, in a way 'Jaws' did when it first hit the shelves. Originally, the book, which began life as a four-page article, was going to have a question mark after the title, but the exclamation mark was better, more dramatic in that for me it stated that the book would deal with what we know as monsters, those fleeting shadows from the unknown we fear so much, the bogeymen and other non-specific fears, a "nameless dread" as H.P. Lovecraft once wrote.
Below, is Linda Godfrey's (author of 'The Beast Of Bray Road' and 'Hunting The American Werewolf') review of the book.
SOMEONE ELSE''S BOOK - IT ROCKS!
Greetings and thanks for stopping by to read this. I wanted to start by telling you about someone else's book, a self-published tome by UK friend Neil Arnold, who recently interviewed me for the British publication "Animals and Men." It's called "Alien Zoo, The A-Z of Zooform Phenomena; A Unique Phantom Menagerie of Paranormal Animals, Manimals, Winged Entities and Semi-Mythical Creatures." The title pretty much says it all; Arnold explains zooform animals as "paranormal entities which only appear to be animals." I think that is a very possible explanation for the Beast of Bray Road phenomenon, although I keep the door open yet to all theories.
But the book is a treasure trove listing of every strange creature sighted around the world in recent and not so recent times, from the Arkan Sonney Fairy Pigs to Portland Oregon's Mole Man to Romania's werewolfish Varcolac. With 190 large pages of entries, it's a must-have resource.
An arguement over zooform!!!
Those 'kids' at Unexplained Mysteries became all flustered and irritated by the world of zooform... http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?s=22397ff455cfe73c1b293b1fda8cfe1e&showtopic=97478&st=15&p=1753081&#entry1753081
Your County advert
Your County is an informative local website, with relation to Kent, which has also featured the book:
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/Kent51/monsters.html
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/Kent51/monsters.html
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