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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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	Rogue 4.24 avg rating — 719 ratings — 2 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
	Shadow Beast (Thomas Walker, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 739 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
	The Daughters of the Darkness (Thomas Walker, #2) 4.48 avg rating — 252 ratings — 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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Movie Monday: When Monsters Reflect the World

How Horror Films Echo War, Disaster, and Cultural Fear

There is a moment in many monster films when the creature first appears. It might be a shadow moving beneath dark water. A shape rising above a skyline. A distant roar that carries across a city.

The details change from film to film, but the feeling is always the same. Something enormous and uncontrollable has entered the world.

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Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age.

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