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Luke Phillips is a writer with a real passion for monsters. Having studied as a zoologist, his imagination has always been captivated by the darker side of our unnatural history.

From trekking through California looking for Bigfoot to camping out in the Highlands on the trail of real-life reported big cats, Luke has strayed from the mainstream into the eerie world of cryptozoology. There, truth may well be stranger and far scarier than fiction!

He lives in the West Kent town of Sevenoaks in the UK. Shadow Beast is his debut novel and is out now.

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	Shadow Beast (Thomas Walker, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Monster Monday: Emela-Ntouka — Killer of Elephants

There are names that snag in the imagination and refuse to let go. “Killer of elephants” is one of them.

I can still remember the first time I encountered the Emela-Ntouka. I was deep in a rabbit hole of cryptozoology — the kind of reading that starts at one creature and spirals outward through footnotes and cross-references until it’s suddenly 2am and you’re not entirely sure the world is as well-

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Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain (British Library Tales of the Weird)

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Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age.

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