Weird Wilderness

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You may not have ever seen them but you know them: Bigfoot Mothman chupacabras the Jersey Devil and Nessie the Loch Ness Monster. Cryptids exist everywhere around the world on land in the air and under the water. Some creatures are recent discoveries; others date back centuries. But where did they come from? What is their hidden history?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Collected in this anthology are twenty short stories featuring a wide variety of cryptids as well as the cryptozoologists who discover them hunt them study them or shelter them. Alongside the classic creatures of legend and lore are pixies aliens lizard-men and dopplegängers-plus a few original and newly discovered cryptids that will capture your curiosity. With genres ranging from fantasy and science fiction to historical fiction and romance there is something for everyone to enjoy. As an added twist each story utilizes at least one form of epistolary writing to help tell the story including text messages podcast interviews newspaper articles and journal entries.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>So tune in to Bigfoot's podcast write a love letter to Nessie and then pick up a pair of tickets to the grand opening of the Cryptid Zoo. The world around us is full of the weird and the wonderful and the creatures that were once long hidden are ready to come out of the woods.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Weird Wilderness: A Cryptid Bestiary </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is the tenth anthology edited by Lisa Mangum and Jessica Guernsey and published by WordFire Press. Profits support the various endowment and scholarship funds for Superstars Writing Seminars.  </span></p>