New Loch Ness Monster Book

Roland Watson, who runs the excellent Loch Ness Monster blog, has a new book out on a specific aspect of the mystery - the land sightings of Nessie.

The book is called When Monsters Come Ashore: Stories of the Loch Ness Monster on Land. As far as I know, this is the first book to focus fully on the land sightings of the LNM.

Below is the book description:

"For centuries, people have claimed to have seen a strange creature swimming in the murky waters of Britain's biggest body of water - Loch Ness. However, a small but sensational number of these witnesses have claimed to have seen the same creature lurking on the beaches, lying on the fields and crossing the roads surrounding the loch. What are we to make of these extraordinary accounts of a normally aquatic beast? Hoax, misidentification or the real deal? What do they tell us about the nature and habits of this most mysterious of animals? In this first work dedicated to this aspect of the Loch Ness story, Roland Watson takes a fresh look into this mystery within a mystery."

This sounds like a book to check out, especially if you are someone primarily interested in lake monsters…

It can be ordered here.

-Tyler Houck

** As a side note, I keep a list of all of this year's new cryptozoology books on my other blog, which I update all year long. Find it here.

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