Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside

My mom loves books that feature scary stories, and she LOVED this one. The book is large and thick with small print, and it took my mom a week to finish even though she's a very fast reader. She said she was getting nightmares from it (she isn't easy to scare) and that the stories were really scary. There are 27 chapters with a few stories in each chapter. There are also some illustrations and art, which makes it all the more scary.Her favorite stories are ; "The Creature at the Foot of Her Bed" and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bogeyman?", "Martha Learned Not To Put Her Hand Under Another's Bed" "The Black-Caped Flying Humanoid Who Attacked a Policeman", "Unseen Creatures Attacked With Rocks and Boulders" and "The Werewolf Has Always Been With Us".She reads the stories over and over, they are just that good. She likes it so much I'm going to read it myself soon!

No explorer of the unusual should be without a "Brad Steiger" section--and this book in particular! Reminiscent of John Keels "Monsters from Beyond Time and Space," this is a good compilation of a wide variety of strange entities, with eyewitness testimonies, histories, and myths. There are a few good books by Brad Steiger that deserve inclusion into this bracket, as I'm sure anyone interested in the unknown already knows. Copyrighted 2011, and it's the newest of his that I know of.

So far I am enjoying the actual content of this book. It simply contains fun, scary and interesting stories about paranormal creatures, which is what I wanted. I'm giving it only three stars because the e-book formatting is atrocious. Words are misspelled, punctuation is off and it just looks kind of bad. There really is no excuse for how poor the e-book formatting has been done.

I really enjoy true anthology stories of creatures. This book had some stories I had never heard of, and that made me happy about my purchase. Sometimes these anthologies are all the same just different covers.

This is my first Brad Steiger book and I'm really enjoying it. I'll definitely have to check out more of his publications after this.

I love everything about cryptozoology, and I love hearing about monsters or everything paranormal. When I got this book, I started to read it right away. It was awesome, and the readings were fantastic. For all you monster lovers out there, this is the book just for you!

Enjoyed this book alot! There is tons in here about creatures I have never even heard of before, and I consider myself pretty knowledgable on this subject. This is one that I will keep close at hand for future reference and reading!

Interesting big read got here rather fast and as described

A wonderfull book by the late Brad Steiger. A real list of creepy stories of various crytpids.

Das Konzept dieses Buches besteht darin, eine große Zahl kryptozoologischer Wesen sowie einige paranormale Erscheinungen (kopflose Reiter etc.), "Außerirdische" (Greys, Reptiloide etc.) und Sagengestalten (Feen etc.) als furchterregende Ungeheuer darzustellen. Grundlage sind in der Regel Augenzeugenberichte. Behauptungen werden nicht belegt, was natürlich ein großer Makel ist. Die Behauptung beispielsweise, es sei bereits Chupacabras-Blut untersucht worden und man habe festgestellt, dass es keines bekannten Tieres Blut ähnele, wirkt ohne jeglichen Quellennachweis unglaubwürdig und lächerlich.Der größte Schwachpunkt des Buches ist seine gläubige Wiedergabe der als Unfug berüchtigten Hohlweltlehre, noch dazu in Verbindung mit Nazi-Ufos und einer völlig unkritischen Betrachtung des mörderischen Rassismus der Nazis als Versuch Hitlers, die Deutschen rassisch aufzupäppeln, um sie für die Überwesen der Unterwelt schick zu machen. Dabei nimmt der Autor unter anderem Bezug auf Hermann Rauschnings längst als Fälschung entlarvte "Gespräche mit Hitler".Sieht man von diesem Griff ins Klo und den fehlenden Belegen ab, ist "Real Monsters" allerdings eine packende und spannende Lektüre, die direkt auf Urängste zielt und geeignet ist, jeden nicht zu 100% rationalistisch denkenden Leser für nicht absehbare Zeit in ein Nervenbündel zu verwandeln, das sogar vor dem eigenen Schatten erschrickt (Stichwort: Schattenleute). Stellenweise glaubt man, man läse in einem der ungeschriebenen Bücher des Lovecraft-Mythos.

J'ai été emballée ! Cet ouvrage est vraiment très bien, beaucoup d'histoires, bien racontées. Je le recommande, et on devrait le traduire en français, nul doute qu'il se vendrait très bien !