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A Boy and His Monster: <i>The Water Horse</i> (2007)

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The Comfort (and Discomfort) of Retellings

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Angus (Alex Etel) sits beside a bathtub containing a juvenile water horse, in a scene from The Water Horse (2007)
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A Boy and His Monster: The Water Horse (2007)

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Dr. Jonathan Dempsey (Ted Danson) sits at an array of computers and sonar displays in Loch Ness (1996)
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Keeping the Mystery in Loch Ness (1996)

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Heather Amaro and Phil Torres in Expedition X: What Lurks in Loch Ness
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Tracking Nessie With All the Cool Tools: Expedition X Hunts the Loch Ness Monster

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Photo allegedly showing "Champ", the lake monster of Lake Champlain
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Expedition X Takes on “America’s Lake Monster”

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model of the Loch Ness Monster
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Something in the Water: Surveying Lake and River Monsters

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Vintage illustration of a black leopard
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Big Cats in the UK: The Black Beast of Exmoor and Its Many Relatives

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Two hosts of Expedition X during their search for the Ozark Howler
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Cryptid Hunting in the Ozarks With Expedition X

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author Natasha Pulley and the cover of her upcoming novel The Hymn to Dionysus
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Revelry and Ruin: Revealing The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley

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Artists rendering of the Ozark Howler from an episode of In Search of Monsters
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A Hodgepodge of Animal Traits: MonsterQuest on the Ozark Howler

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Atlantis

Five Works Inspired by the Legend of Atlantis

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An illustration. While revelers drink in an adjacent room, a lone woman weeps over a pot cooking on the stove.
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Before the Forest

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“You want stories?" Thom Merrilin declaimed. "I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”

Robert Jordan, The Eye Of The World

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