I take my hat off to Mark Bessire. Ever since I curated Of Monsters and Miracles at the Croydon Clocktower in 1995, I’ve been trying to find a museum or gallery with the will (and budget) to do a follow-up exhibition of fortean art.

Mark Bessire, on the other hand, has pulled it off, with much assistance from FT stalwarts Loren Coleman and Jeffrey Vallance. He created a superbly playful and entertaining cryptozoological art exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art in Maine last year, and this is the catalogue.

It is clear that it was a cracking show. What is unclear is who did what, as all the picture captions appear on page 158.