The Thing…
Posted by: Nick Redfern on September 16th, 2012
I was alerted to this book only just this morning, so I haven’t seen it yet. But, as it appears to be about Mothman, I figured I’d post the info at CM. Its title is The Thing: Mothman, Devil or Spirits, and it’s written by Patrecia Gray.
About the book, we’re told…
“The expected target reader would most likely be ghost hunters, those interested in the spirit world, mysterious events, the devil, religion, and those who search to differentiate truth from phantasm. Many reliable, common people saw the ‘Thing.’ What, or who else inhabits our earth? We do have a reliable source of truth, which informs those who are ready to believe.”
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Punk music fan, Tennents Super and Carlsberg Special Brew beer fan, horror film fan, chocolate fan, like to wear black clothes, like to stay up late. Work as a writer.
I don’t think this is going to appeal to people looking for cryptozoology. The author is a missionary whose only other book for sale at Amazon is a tabular presentation of the words of Christ as taken from the King James Bible “with the help of divine guidance and study books.” I strongly suspect this will turn out to be about how “Mothman is a deceit of the Devil”, along lines similar to those used wrt space aliens.
It is not clear whether Mothman should be considered a cryptid in the same sense as Mokele-mbembe. This book is likely to be in the “not a cryptid” camp.