True Monster Stories

Terry Deary's Terribly True Stories

by Terry Deary

A worldwide voyage of discovery to find out about the Loch Ness Monster, the Himalayan Yeti, the Australian Yowie and other weird creatures, some of which are too awful to imagine. Someone, somewhere, at some time has sworn that each of these strange stories are true.

Genres: Audiobook

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29. Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history. Books in the series have been widely translated into other languages and imitated.

A cartoon series has been made of the series of books and was shown on CiTV for a period in 2002.

The first series of a live-action comedy sketch show of the same name was shown on CBBC in 2009 and a second series is due.

Terry is also known widely throughout children and adult reading groups alike for his True Stories series (see below for series list).

He received an Honorary Doctorate of Education from the University of Sunderland in 2000. His numerous accolades also include the Blue Peter "Best Nonfiction Author of the Century" Award in the U.K.

-Wikipedia

Reviews

[Kathryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Audiobook.

[Δημήτριος Καραγιάννης · Rating 4 out of 5]

Genuinely scary, made me research many fables and legends and rethink my evaluation of them.

[Suzi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good fun 😊

[Annie · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books my mum ever gave me as a kid - she found it in a bin at the school she worked at and took it home for me...many nights spent under the covers with a torch and this book, and I still think of it now sometimes - some of the stuff was genuinely scary as a kid! Looking to buy another copy now as I think mine probably went to the charity shops as I grew up, but I'd love to see if it gave me the same fear now.

[Xanthi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I listened to this on audiobook.
This book covers a broad range of 'monsters' - from cryptoids such as Big Foot and the Loch Ness monster, to vampires and werewolves, and all sorts of other beasties in between.
A few examples given were proven to be hoaxes and were presented as such, but a few others weren't, which was somewhat frustrating.

[Roth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I first listened to this when I was a child, with less developed critical thinking skills. Entertaining, but the author invokes the 'lies/mistake/truth' fallacy, with a definite leaning towards 'these stories are plausible'.

[Jem · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only 112 pages a quick 90 minute read full of the histories of mysterious creatures from the Werewolf to the Yeti. Made me nostalgic for the books I read in Primary school

[Amelia May · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this a long time ago and I loved it at the time ... but looking back... it was very misleading xD