{"id":1488,"date":"2013-12-13T14:55:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T14:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2013-12-13T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T14:55:45","slug":"a-masterful-and-magical-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"A Masterful and Magical Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mirabilis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-full wp-image-1440\" title=\"mirabilis\" src=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mirabilis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a>Reviewers agree that Karl Shuker\u2019s<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=69\"> Mirabilis: A Carnival of Cryptozoology and Unnatural History<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is a veritable cryptozoological feast. \u201cIn this gripping collection Shuker explores the farthest boundaries of natural history, which include some very wild areas indeed,\u201d writes Peter Rogerson in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pelicanist.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/cryptocarnival.html\">Magonia<\/a><\/em>. In his review in <em>Fortean Times<\/em>, Jerome Clark has one criticism of the book (too many exclamation points!), but otherwise finds it \u201cblissful.\u201d Calling \u201chis writing is clear and concise,\u201c Clark explains that \u201dthe startlingly prolific and well-versed Shuker\u2014who unlike most cryptozoologists, has a doctorate in zoology\u2014expounds with insight on mysteries of the animal realm. Much of the material seems unfamiliar even to those of us who know something of cryptozoology\u2026 As always Shuker\u2019s breadth of arcane knowledge prompts an amazed and admiring shaking of the head.\u201d And finally, writing for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mysteriousuniverse.org\/2013\/09\/monsters-on-the-rampage\/\">Mysterious Universe<\/a>,<\/em> Nick Redfern says that\u00a0\u201c<em>Mirabilis<\/em> is not just a commentary on case upon case, and creature upon creature. Instead, we see Karl putting on his Sherlock Holmes-style cape and deer-stalker hat, and actually trying to figure out\u2014detective-style\u2014what the many and varied baffling beasts under his microscope actually are. And there are plenty of them\u2026 A masterful and magical study of some of the wildest, biggest, weirdest, and freakiest critters said to haunt the darker corners of our world\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewers agree that Karl Shuker\u2019s Mirabilis: A Carnival of Cryptozoology and Unnatural History is a veritable cryptozoological feast. \u201cIn this gripping collection Shuker explores the farthest boundaries of natural history, which include some very wild areas indeed,\u201d writes Peter Rogerson in Magonia. In his review in Fortean Times, Jerome Clark has one criticism of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirabilis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}