In The Book Of The Damned, Fort wrote about “giants that will walk by… and the bizarre and the grotesque.” Coghlan has marshalled his own procession of almost 1,000 damned creatures, ranging from the six-inch long Two Tentacled Creature to the 200-ft long Richibacto sea serpent of 1895. Between these extremes lie huge blobs, carnivorous plants, sea serpents, gargoyles, giant birds, living dinosaurs and enough tentacled beasts to fill an HP Lovecraft novel. Their very names conjure up bizarre images: the Hog Killing Varmint, the Double-Nosed Andean Tiger Hound, the Ninki-Nanka, the Sqrat (a rat/squirrel hybrid) and El Pestizo, to mention a mere clawful.

Further Cryptozoology contains 50 updated and 900 entirely new entries to add to those in Coghlan’s A Dictionary Of Cryptozoology (2004) and Cryptosup (2005), but its referencing is odd and inconsistent.

There are only three magazine sources (reference #1 for Animals and Men, #7 for Fate, and #9 for Fortean Times).