MERBEINGS

<p>Put aside your notions of beings half-human and half-fish for there are no such things. </p><p><br></p><p>Put aside for the time being your fears of things wet and strange said to be reptilian in nature which emerge from swamps and rivers and oceans to walk among us.</p><p><br></p><p>The answers to these mysteries you find in this book will surprise you. They have an ancient ancestry and a story of survival that we are only now beginning to uncover.</p><p><br></p><p>Join us as we reveal this journey of discovery in these pages.</p><p><br></p><p>MARK A. HALL who served in the US Army as a Russian translator in Cold War Berlin was an author whose challenging intellectual insights into cryptozoology covered a span of fifty years. He passed away in September 2016.</p><p><br></p><p>LOREN COLEMAN is the founder and director of the nonprofit International Cryptozoology Museum in Maine. Among his many books is <em>True Giants</em> also co-authored with Mark A. Hall. </p><p><br></p><p>DAVID GOUDSWARD is a historian editor and author as well as an expert on H. P. Lovecraft. His latest book on cryptozoology is <em>Sun Sand and Sea Serpents</em>.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>