Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by William T. Cox

I laughed out loud enough in a public bathroom that the guy at the sink sounded disturbed. We are in the realm of the darkly & joyously ridiculous. Seriously, it's what a time traveler for a thousand years in the future would think the time period is like, and I love. This version leaves out the racism and makes the improbable creatures of old lumberjacks inside a humorous and sinister world.

The original Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods was a 1910 book with awesome tall tale critters and some really uncomfortable racism. If that line makes you giggle as I do, read this book. if you eat human flesh in Canada, you become a wendigo, an accursed monster, while if you eat human flesh in Paris, you become President of France, if I understand their electoral process correctly.' Read them around a campfire, if you dare. The illustrations have a sinewy, retro field-guide look. Straight out of the era of Paul Bunyan, they speak to an earlier time in American history, when the woods were indeed dark and deep and filled with mystery. The creatures are all scales and claws, razor-sharp teeth and stealth, camouflage and single-minded nastiness. The book was originally published in 1910 by William Thomas Cox and is now inspiringly retold by Hal Johnson, author of Immortal Lycanthropes. Illustrated throughout, including eight drawings printed with glow-in-the-dark ink, Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods is for every young reader who loves a good scare. The Hoop Snake, which can chase prey at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour and then, with one sting of its tail, cause it to turn purple, swell up, and die. The Hodag, like a spiny-backed bull-horned rhinoceros. Meet the Snoligoster, who feeds on the shadows of its victims. Listeners who suspect that these creatures are the stuff of tall tales, will nevertheless do well to look out for slide-rock bolters when vacationing in the Colorado mountains.Just for kids, twenty bone-chilling tales about the most dangerous fantastical beasts in American folklore. Download cover art Download CD case insert Fearsome Creatures of the LumberwoodsĪ limbless reptilian monster that propels itself through the swamps with a propellor-tipped tail? A creature so ashamed of its monstrous appearance that it dissolves into tears when captured? Learn about the snoligoster, the squonk and many other 'fearsome critters' in this field guide written and illustrated by two North American foresters who know them well.

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by William T. Cox