Hunting Monsters is Ten Years Old

Yes, the time is right to discuss the possibility of an expanded, ten-year-anniversary edition of my 2016/2017 Arcturus book Hunting Monsters… Prologue. Hunting Monsters, for those who don’t know it, mostly focuses on the issue of how modern views on specific cryptids were compiled and how the foundational evidence involved fares today (or, at least, when I wrote the text in the 2010s). It’s sceptical and advocates critical appraisal, both of the aforementioned evidence and its mostly sensationalist proponents. The strongest criticism of the book is that it doesn’t provide affirmation for those who want something more satisfying in emotional terms. You can decide whether that’s a valid thing to say about a work of non-fiction. Caption: 2016 promotion from Arcturus Publishing for the first edition of the book. One more bit of preamble: there’s a popular view (both among proponents of monster existence and society at large) that people with a sceptical approach to subjects like…