Monsters Among Us

An Exploration of otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and odd Phenomena Linda S Godfrey Tarcher Pedigree 2016 Pb, 352pp, notes, £14.99, ISBN 9780399176241

For 23 years of her writing career, Linda Godfrey has collected extraordinary tales of encounters with impossible creatures and presents them here with good writing and a fairly balanced assessment of their value.

What makes this collection more than usually interesting is that many of the accounts had to be prised out of the witnesses who had only confided in their closest friends and therefore will be new to most readers.

Godfrey has written several books on such modern encounters, one of which focused on ‘wolfmen’ (her chief interest). Here her stories are divided into those that describe alternative realities; those about humanoid ‘beasts’ (including Bigfoot); entities that invade bedrooms, follow or persecute; others associated with mists and shadows; and still others seemingly related to UFOs of different kinds, and ‘portals’.

The book will certainly interest entity researchers.