Although ENCYCLOPEDIA HORRIFICA relies on many rare and unusual sources to bring you
the terrifying truth, most of the references cited here are available on the Internet
and at your local library or bookstore. In addition, more than thirty interviews with
experts and eyewitnesses were conducted during the Special Investigations chronicled
within the warped pages of ENCYCLOPEDIA HORRIFICA.
REAL NIGHTMARES | “THAT'S THE SPIRIT!”
EVERY DAY IS HALLOWEEN | FEARSOME FATES
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PART ONE: REAL NIGHTMARES
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Associated Press. “Vampire Killing Kit Sells for $12,000.” USA Today Online, Oct. 31, 2003, http://www.usatoday.com/. Barber, Paul. “Staking Claims: The Vampires of Folklore and Fiction.” Skeptical Inquirer, March/April 1996, http://www.csicop.org/si/9603/staking.html Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”: A Centennial Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum & Library. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1997. Dickson, Seth. “Vampires Uncloaked.” Bizarre magazine, May/June 1997. Eddy, Beverley D., ed. Dracula: A Translation of the 1488 Nürnberg Edition. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1985. Fort, Charles. Wild Talents. Sec. 3 of The Complete Books of Charles Fort. 1932. Reprint, New York: Dover, 1974. Garden, Nancy. Vampires. New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1973. Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters. New York: Checkmark Books, 2005. McNally, Raymond T., and Radu Florescu. In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires, rev. ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Melton, J. Gordon, ed. “Dracula, The Text.” All Things Dracula: A Bibliography of Editions, Reprints, Adaptations, and Translations of Dracula. http://www.cesnur.org/2003/dracula/ (accessed on July 16, 2006). Summers, Montague. The Vampire: His Kith and Kin. London: Trubner & Company, 1928. Washburn, Michael. “Bloody Good: How a Cruel 15th-Century Ruler Morphed into the Monster We Love Today.” Philadelphia City Paper, Oct. 27, 2005, http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2005-10-27/art.shtml Williams, Daniel. “Romania Takes Its Stake in the Dracula Legend To Heart.” Washington Post, Dec. 1, 2004. |
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Blythe, Richard. Dragons and Other Fabulous Beasts. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977. Bondeson, Jan. “The Feejee Mermaid.” Chap. 3 in The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. Casey, Michael. “Shark That Walks on Its Fins Is Discovered.” Associated Press/Washington Post, Sept. 18, 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091800302.html Coleman, Lauren, and Jerome Clark. Cryptozoology A to Z. New York: Fireside Books, 1999. Columbus, Christopher. The Journal of Christopher Columbus. London: Hakluyt Society, 1893. Reprint, Boston: Adamant Media, 2005. Ellis, Richard. The Search for the Giant Squid. New York: Lyons Press, 1998. Fernicola, Richard G. Twelve Days of Terror: A Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks. New York: Lyons Press, 2001. Kaczmarek, Dale, and Matt Hucke. “SS Watertown Ghosts.” Ghost Research Society: Ghost Photographs. http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/watertown.html (accessed on August 22, 2006). Morelle, Rebecca. “Giant Squid Grabs London Audience.” BBC News Online, Feb. 28, 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4756514.stm O’Shea, Steve. “Estimating Age and Growth Rate in ‘Architeuthis dux.’” Octopus News Magazine Online. http://www.tonmo.com/science/public/architeuthis-age.php (accessed on July 24, 2006). O’Shea, Steve. “Giant Squid and Colossal Squid Fact Sheet.” Octopus News Magazine Online. http://www.tonmo.com/science/public/giantsquidfacts.php (accessed on July 24, 2006). Time-Life Books. Mysterious Creatures. Mysteries of the Unknown. Richmond, VA: Time-Life Books Inc., 1988. Trotter, David. “The Flying Dutchman, Ghost Ship of the Cape.” African Ghost Hunting Safaris. http://www.vanhunks.com/cape1/flyingdutchman1.html (accessed on August 24, 2006). |
| ALIEN INVASION! |
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Arnold, Kenneth. “I Did See the Flying Disks!” FATE magazine, Spring 1948. Associated Press. “Flier Dies Chasing a ‘Flying Saucer.’” New York Times, Jan. 9, 1948. Clark, Jerome. The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1998. Deardorff, J., B. Haisch, B. Maccabee, and H. E. Puthoff. “Inflation-Theory Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitation.” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, vol. 58 (Jan./Feb. 2005): 43 – 50. Haines, Gerald K. “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947 – 90.” Central Intelligence Agency Studies in Intelligence, no. 1 (1997): 67 – 84. Haydon, S. E. “A Windmill Demolishes It.” Dallas Morning News, April 17, 1897. Kaempffert, Waldemar. “‘Flying Saucers’ Are Considered in the Light of Other Strange Visual Phenomena.” New York Times, July 13, 1947. Korff, Kal K. The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don’t Want You to Know. New York: Dell Publishing, 2000. McAndrew, James. The Roswell Report: Case Closed. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997. McCarthy, Kieren. “Satellite Pics of US Alien Base Hit the Web.” The Register Online, April 19, 2000. http://www.theregister.co.uk/. Randle, Kevin. Project Blue Book Exposed. New York: Marlowe & Company, 1997. Schumach, Murray. “‘Disk’ Near Bomb Test Site Is Just a Weather Balloon.” New York Times, July 9, 1947. Shaffer, Josh. “Flying Saucer Tale Is Serious Business in Small Texas Town.” Fort Worth Star Telegram, August 29, 2002.Shostak, Seth. “Interstellar Signal from the 70s Continues to Puzzle Researchers.” Space.com Shuch, H. Paul. “SETI Sensitivity: Calibrating on a Wow! Signal.” SETI League. http://www.setileague.org/articles/calibwow.htm Time-Life Books. Alien Encounters. Mysteries of the Unknown. Richmond, VA: Time-Life Books Inc., 1992. Time-Life Books. The UFO Phenomenon. Mysteries of the Unknown. Richmond, VA: Time-Life Books Inc., 1987. |
| HOWLING AT THE MOON! |
| Aron, Paul. “Who Was Theseus?” Chap. 4 in Unsolved Mysteries of History. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Aylesworth, Thomas G. The Story of Werewolves. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Baring-Gould, Sabine. The Book of Were-Wolves. 1865. Reprint, Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006. Briggs, Helen. “New Twist in ‘Hobbit’ Human Story.” BBC News Online, May 31, 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5021214.stm Britt, Robert Roy. “Full Moon and Lunatic Dogs.” Space.com, Jan. 9, 2001. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/lunatic_dogs_010109-1.html Campbell, C. “A Natural History of the Tasmanian Tiger.” The Thylacine Museum. http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/index.htm (accessed on August 10, 2006). Garden, Nancy. Werewolves. New York: Bantam Books, 1973. Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. (See “Dracula Lives!”) McHargue, Georgess. Meet the Werewolf. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1976. Nickell, Joe. “‘Mothman’ Solved! Investigating On-Site.” Chap. 12 in The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Myring, Lynn. Vampires, Werewolves & Demons. Supernatural Guides. London: Usborne, 1990. Orenstein, Catherine. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Pourcher, Abbé Pierre. The Beast of Gévaudan. 1889. Translated by Derek Brockis. Bloomington, Indiana: Author House, 2006. Ralston, W. E. S. The Songs of the Russian People, as Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life. London: Ellis & Green, 1872. Roach, John. “Full Moon Affect on Behavior Minimal, Studies Say.” National Geographic News, Feb. 6, 2004. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1218_021218_moon.html Steiger, Brad. The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1999. Thompson, Richard H. Wolf-Hunting in France in the Reign of Louis XV. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. Townley, John. “Can the Full Moon Affect Human Behavior?” Inner Self. http://www.innerself.com/Astrology/full_moon.htm (accessed on August 8, 2006). |
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