Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology - Volume 2

Slightly smaller volume than the first - N-Z entries take up just under 200 pages. Then there are interesting subsections at the back: Animals Discovered Since 1900 and Lake and River Monsters. There's the index for both volumes too. Essential addition to the first volume.

These books are very informative and are so easy to just dip in and out of for a quick distraction.

I’m a big RPG game player and I really enjoy adding hints of realistic mythology to my games. I bought this book for the purpose of creating stories around real mythological creatures. This book did not disappoint. There are some very obscure creatures without a lot of information other than they exist in a culture's history. But others, there’s lots of information that helps me create a story for the game.

The book consists of a patchwork of only a handful mythological beings (e.g. Curupira , Camazotz), but numerous extinct species (e.g. dodo, thylacine, moa) , hoaxes (Loch Ness Monster) and misidentifications (alleged sea monsters, giant cats) and aliens.

This is a great dictionary on odd animals and creatures. The authors are complete nutballs and full of themselves, so their other works and media presence are less than desirable because of the type of people they seem to purposely attract, but these volumes are well worth it.

Not easy to find a book on this subject. My daughter is interested in this, so I was glad to find something for her to read.

This book is absolutely amazing. For anyone interested in cryptids I could not recommend a better place to start.While it does contain lots of images, its true glory is that of a field guide. It offers collected details such as common name, variant names, descriptions, behavior, habitat, location, sources, etc..If your goal in purchasing this book is primarily for photos, you might want to look elsewhere.