Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: 20 Chilling Tales from the Wilderness Hal Johnson, illus. by Tom Mead. Workman, $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7611-8461-4 ...

“Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, with a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts” (1910) — a kind of 20th century bestiary that accounted for America’s more fantastical creatures — was the ...

William Cox documented the legend in his 1910 book, "Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts." The squonk allegedly lives in the hemlock forest of the state, ...

According to William T. Cox, in his seminal encyclopedia Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods (the source of the brilliant scientific names here, by the way), the hugag has “a perfect mania for ...

First introduced in the early 20th century book "Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods," the Squonk is said to sob its way through northern Pennsylvania's hemlock forests, ashamed of its warts and ...

One of the first accounts of the slide rock bolter comes from a 1910 novel, “The Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods” by William T. Cox. According to the legend, ...

Explore the depths of fear with our latest video, "The Most Terrifying Monster We Can Imagine." This journey delves into the most spine-chilling creatures from mythology, cinema, and folklore, ...

The 2015 version of the popular cryptid book "Fearsome Creatures" featured a horror-inspired retelling of the hodag, where the creature was described as a "3,000-pound carnivorous bull-horned ...

Until about 10,000 years ago, the saber-tooth cat Smilodon fatalis was a fearsome predator in what is now the American West. More than 3,000 fossilized cats have been pulled from the acrid ooze of ...

In the old municipal cemetery of Lafayette lies the grave of Theodore “Todor” Glava, known to be a miner from Eastern Europe who died during the influenza pandemic of 1918.