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| Memoirs of a Monster Hunter: A Five-Year Journey in Search of the Unknown | 
 enlarge | Author: Nick Redfern
Publisher: New Page Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 70696
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1564149765
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.944
EAN: 9781564149763
ASIN: 1564149765
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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For centuries, people across the world have had a fascination with monsters and strange creatures. They marvel at the tales and legends of the Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest; of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas; of the infamous and diabolical Moth-Man of West Virginia; of fire-breathing dragons; and of those dark denizens of the deep: lake monsters and sea serpents. But do such creatures really exist? Can it be true that our planet is home to fantastic beasts that lurk deep within its forests and waters? Memoirs of a Monster Hunter proves the answer is a resounding yes!
In this follow-up to his wildly successful Three Men Chasing Monsters, paranormal investigator and author Nick Redfern chronicles his surreal road-trip through the United States and beyond in search of all-things monstrous. His strange adventures lasted five years and saw him doggedly pursuing a menagerie of creatures, including gargoyles, giant birds, and what some believe are living dinosaurs. Follow Redfern as he:
*Explores the El Yunque rainforest of Puerto Rico in search of the terrifying Chupacabras: a razor-clawed, glowing-eyed beast that is part giant bat and part vampire.
*Seeks out the Goat Man: a menacing creature that evokes imagery of both demons and the fabled cloven-hoofed Centaurs of ancient mythology, and is said to inhabit the forests of East Texas.
*Chases after what many people believe are real-life, flesh-and-blood werewolves that surface from hidden lairs and prowl the countryside when the Moon is full.
Part X-Files, part Crocodile Hunter with a mix of Jurassic Park and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter takes you on a roller-coaster ride into the unknown. Read personal accounts of the monsters that inhabit your wildest imagination and your worst nightmares. The creatures you were told couldn't possibly exist, really do.
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 One Man Stalking Monsters...Still September 11, 2007
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Nick Redfern is back, with yet ANOTHER book. I have asked him how he churns out book after book, attends festival after festival, speaking engagement after speaking engagement, runs multiple blog sites, writes articles for several magazines (simultaneously it seems), and answers e-mails by the ton...almost on a 24/7 basis. And this doesn't COUNT "meditating" in the pub with beer, Jack Daniels and Coca Cola, rum and coke (cola), tequila, and whatever. OR time spent glued to a television screen watching DVD cannibal zombie movies, OR listening intently to punk rock music (a Ramones freak to the core). In answer to such a question I get back, basically, "I get up early and manage my time".
Indeed!And as this book makes clearly evident, a great deal of that time is spent in airports and on airplanes, going hither, thither, and yon.
And when not there, in hotels and motels...and more pubs and bars....and jouncing around in jeeps in potholed backcountries...getting "tourista"...and seeing and hearing things that can curl your toes.
If you've read the wild & wooly "Three Men Seeking Monsters", be advised that this is the sequel: "Part Two", if you prefer. This picks up where "Three Men" left off; with Our Hero coming to America and leaving "Old Blighty" (and Jon Downes and Richard "Fighting Girls Monthly" Freeman) behind. Settling in Texas, what does our Man In Black undertake to do? Why the same sort of thing, of course! Hunt monsters!
He goes into the Big Thicket country with Rob Riggs and sees ghostlights on legendary Bragg Road. He visits the site of a famous Texas "Goat Man" incident of 1969 and finds surprising evidence that said satyric rascal
(or perhaps a descendant....you KNOW how prolific goats are!!!)might still be around!!!! He journeys into a "heart of darkness" in Puerto Rico, the El Yunque rainforest, and absorbs tales of blood sucking chupacabras while encountering bloodsucking mosquitoes. He also gets to hear that the investigation might be "hampered" by the presence of wild, biting, HIV-infected monkeys and/or rabies-infected bats. Makes a man crave a Bacardi or a Jose Cuervo just to think about such things!
Back in Texas he hears a dandy werewolf tale (though actually perhaps a dogman or manwolf tale) from the early 1930s, finds out from the internet that he is an evil UFO disinformation agent of the U.S. intelligence community who works to discredit the alien presence at Roswell (this because he wrote "Body Snatchers In the Desert", which offered a non-alien scenario for Roswell based on leaked information from "shadowy" sources...AND because he is an obvious "Man In Black" whose obvious and persistent wearing of such clothes mark him absolutely as one of "them"...I guess all the Greenwich Village beatniks of the fifties were Feds, too). He further finds himself "Public Enemy Number One" at virtually every UFO conference he attends. He also discovers he has a Royal Air Force background (presumably in intelligence and disinformation operations)that he was totally unaware of. Must have been a "missing time" situation that he completely forgot. He was always under the impression it was his FATHER who did a stint in the RAF.
But, in the midst of all this lunacy, he meets this long, tall, leggy Texan named Dana who makes him FORGET monsters,UFOs, Pubs, and Jack Daniels for extended periods of time!!! Gasp !!! True love strikes and Nick's heart goes da-Dum for Dana. They get hitched before one can say
"sasquatch" and settle in for a wonderful...if different...life together.
You can't read the book without picking up on the fact that the guy adores this woman and that the feeling is mutual. They even seem to work in some quality time in between his constant in-the-door-out-the-door travelings.
From the ghostly return of Nick & Dana's just-passed family pet, to the photo-captured imagery (not shown) of a snake-like apparition in a Roswell AFB hangar, this book is "tons of fun"; a great, absorbing, Fortean read that I can't praise highly enough. Get yourself a copy, settle in, and enjoy.
WRH
Keep 'em coming, Nick!!! October 8, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm glad Nick Redfern is so prolific - in his case, quantity DOES equal quality. Although I would find all the time he spends at airports almost as scary as the monsters he hunts - this book isn't JUST scary. It's cool to read about the relationships between so many other authors in this field whose books I've also read.
But the main reason to buy this book is because it is full of personally investigated scary and weird accounts.
 Great fun to read - if you are in high school ........ January 6, 2008
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is hard to read because of the amount of time & ink the author spends describing how much he drinks, eats and checks out the babes everywhere he goes. Seriously, there are pages and pages of this drivel. The first thing described in detail - on EVERY SINGLE TRIP to investigate the paranormal is: How much he got to drink at the seminar, restaurant bar, etc., what he ate and his friends ate (and what they drank) and whether or not he or any of his friends hooked up with or merely tried to hook up with hot babes...... gimme a break.
With that said, the book might have been redeemable if the author had AT LEAST passed along some NEW stories or information during these investigations that actually related to the paranormal (and had some SUBSTANCE - not relating his desire to constantly wear black and the sometime problem this presents......), neither of which were ever forthcoming.
I do not recommend this book unless you are new to having an interest in non-fiction paranormal information or, perhaps, if you are in high school and think it is cool to ditch, drink, hook up and then talk about it.....
There are plenty of other books out there that have an interesting writing style but still manage to relay actual information of interest regarding paranormal research.
Very Disappointed August 14, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are interested in a serious discussion of cryptids, do not buy this book. Redfern spends the majority of the book describing his personal life. The information on monster hunting is limited and ancedotal at best. He comes across as a smug,self-serving free-loader who doesn't feel the need to bother with serious research into a very interesting topic. I'm surprised this got published, it is that bad. To use a very British term to describe Nick's work, bollocks!
Entertaining! November 3, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Entertaining and fun to read. I highly recommend this book.
Rose Pressey
Author of My Haunted Family.
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