Only Fools and Goatsuckers

In January And February 1998 Jonathan Downes And Graham Inglis Of The Centre For Fortean Zoology Spent Three And A Half Weeks In Puerto Rico Mexico And Florida. They Were Accompanied By A Film Crew From Uk Channel 4 Tv And Their Aim Was To Make A Documentary About The Terrifying Chupacabra - A Vampiric Creature That Exists Somewhere In The Grey Area Between Folklore And Reality. This Remarkable Book Tells The Gripping Sometimes Scary And Often Hilariously Funny Story Of How The Boys From The Cfz Did Their Best To Subvert The Medium Of Contemporary Tv Documentary Making And Actually Do Their Job. In The End Thje Conclusions That Jon Draws Are Terrifying And Lead On To The Remarkable Conclusions He Comes To In The Rising Of The Moon. This Book Was Always Planned As The Central Part Of A Trilogy About Zooform Phenomena. Starting With The Owlman And Others And Ending With The Rising Of The Moon These Three Books Explore The Nature Of Zooform Phenomena And Their Relationship With The Socio Cultural Structure Of The Culture In Which They Are Perceived. However The Books Are All Highly Entertaining And This One In Particular Is Extremely Funny So Get Yer Chequebooks Out! From The I Am Pleased To Announce That The Latest In Our Series Of Perfect Bound Reissues Of My Books Is Now Only Fools And Goatsuckers. In The Eight Years Since I Wrote It I Have Often Regretted The Title—Which After All Makes No Sense To Anyone Not Familiar With The Bbc Tv Series From Which I Cribbed The Name (Which Means Basically Everyone Outside The Uk). But One - Long Forgotten - Wag Christened Our Younger `Jack-The-Lad` Selves The Rodney And Del-Boy Of Cryptozoology And The Joke Seemed Appropriate. The Book Should Also I Think Be Seen Within Its Historical Perspective. I Was Only 37 When I Wrote This Book And Although I Had Been Working Within Cryptozoology For Some Years I Was Still Really A Novice.