Time for some more updates, I think.
Firstly, the current issue of Britain's ever-excellent Paranormal Magazine has an article of mine on giant bats and bat-like entities from around the world. The Javanese ahool, African olitiau and sasabonsam, a bat-winged monkey bird from Kent, and a truly weird assortment of North American man-bats (including the LaCrosse entity depicted here in spectacular form by awesome Swedish artist Richard Svenssen - thanks, Richard!) are just some of the things with wings documented therein - so if you're batty (groan!) about cryptozoology, you know where to look!
Turning to books: first up is the exciting news that Extraordinary Animals Revisited has now achieved its first reprint, which contains a few updates and amendments, including extra info regarding the shunka warak'in and an American platypus-like mystery beast, and the inclusion of some Cobra Courting references that didn't make the original printing.
The updated, expanded edition of In Search of Prehistoric Survivors is still in preparation, and should be out next year, in good time, I hope, for Weird Weekend 2010.
Meanwhile, my collected poetry volume, currently entitled Star Steeds and Other Dreams (its original title was The Mirror of Mnemosyne, but as Mnemosyne is not the most readily-remembered - or pronounceable! - of names, I decided that a change of title might be in order, since when it has changed several times!) is now complete, and should be out fairly soon, courtesy of those fine people at CFZ Press.
And last, but definitely not least, the latest, fully-updated edition of The New Zoo: New and Rediscovered Animals of the Twentieth Century (which originally appeared in 1993 as The Lost Ark, and was republished as The New Zoo in greatly expanded form in 2002) has been accepted for publication! So look out for that too, which will be published in colour.
Exciting times, indeed!
Kwinkydinkally, I recently posted about Cryptid bats on my blog, using as my base an article written by a young Mexican with an interest in such things. I quoted your opinion as being that the ahool and others were possibly related to the Old World False Vampire bats and I did a scale mock-up of the idea (I handled the LaCrosse entity separately since on the source blog it had been claimed as a "Winged Reptoid")
ReplyDeleteSo the question is, did I cite your opinion correctly on that or was I dreaming that time?
Incidentally some of the OW False vampire bats have been reported to drink blood (As is also the case in the NW False vampire) and could be connected to your Ethiopian "OW Vampire bats"
Best Wishes, Dale D.