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Review
of The Werewolf Book, Second Edition by Nick Redfern, Mania.
com:
If
werewolves, hairy shape-shifting monsters, and
silver-bullets are your thing, then you're in for a big, big
treat! The good folk at Visible Ink Press have just
published an excellent, fully updated, and massively
expanded, edition of Brad Steiger's near-legendary title,
The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting
Beings. Originally published in 1999, this is a book that,
beyond any shadow of doubt whatsoever, is undeniably
essential reading for devotees of all-things beastly,
vicious, and full-moon-based.
Running
at nearly 400-pages, The Werewolf Book is a seriously
in-depth, rollercoaster ride into the world of the
flesh-eating killing machine best known as the lycanthrope,
the werewolf, or the wolf-man - in on-screen entertainment,
history, mythology, folklore, and even history and reality.
That's right: if you're on the look-out for the ultimate
werewolf guide, then look no further. You have just found
it!
Presented
in easy-to-read A to Z style, The Werewolf Book reveals just
about all you'll ever need to know about moon-based
man-beasts. And, the good thing is that you can dip into its
pages wherever, and whenever, you like.
Looking
to learn what Brad - our fearless, armed-to-the-teeth,
werewolf hunter, himself - thinks of the 2010 version of The
Wolf Man starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony "Hannibal the
Cannibal" Hopkins? Does he think it's better or worse than
the 1941 original starring Lon Cheney Jr., Claude Rains and
Maria Ouspenskaya? Check out pages 331-334 for the
answers.
Wondering
what Brad might have to say about The Howling, the
Underworld franchise, the teen-themed, sugar-coated Twilight
saga, or the special-effects on An American Werewolf in
London? Well, that's all here, too!. As are countless other
entries on a wide and varied werewolf movies - some
well-known and others downright obscure and long-forgotten -
until now, of course!
Hollywood
movies aside, however, The Werewolf Book focuses a great
deal of its attention on the beast of the night in
definitive reality, too. Yep, like it or like it not: those
beasts of the darkness really are out there. You read it
right; they're not just the stuff of fiction. Indeed, one
day, they may prove to be your absolute worst nightmares
come to life.
And,
for me at least, this is where Brad's mighty tome really
scores points big-time. He reveals centuries-old cases of
shape-shifting, of moonlit savagery, and of wild
man-monsters striking cold, unrelenting fear into the very
heart of centuries-old European hamlets, latter-day American
towns, and even ancient Egypt. And Brad, detailing some of
the strangest and most savage cases of real-life lycanthropy
on-record, successfully demonstrates that Tinsel-Town has
nothing on the real world!
But,
that's not all.
An A
to Z-type book may quickly, and tediously, become very
sterile, dull and downright boring. After all, look at your
average encyclopedia: it might very well be informative, but
it can prove to be as dull as three-day-old dishwater too!
Fortunately, there's none of that here - at all. Rather, The
Werewolf Book is written with imagination, suspense,
excitement, clarity, intrigue and nightmarish, gothic horror
- in equal malevolent, but always-entertaining,
measures.
The
Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings is,
then, most definitely a title to sink your teeth into! But,
if you're going to do so, I most strongly urge you to wait
until (to very slightly paraphrase the mighty Ramones' 1989
anthem Pet Sematary) the moon is full, the air is still, and
all of a sudden, you feel a chill...
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The author/co-author
of 170 books, Brad
Steiger wrote
the paperback bestseller Strangers from the Skies about
UFOs, and his editing of Project Bluebook was hailed by Omni
magazine as one of the best UFO books of the century.
Steiger was inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame for his
work with UFO contactees, abductees, and past life
regression, and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award
at the National UFO and Unexplained Phenomena
Conference.
The author/co-author
of 43 books, Sherry
Steiger, an
ordained minister with a special interest in the possibility
of UFOs in the Bible and world religions, worked closely
with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, official scientific advisor for the
U.S. Air Force's 20-year study of UFOs. In the latter years
of his life, Sherry served as his publicist and confidante
at his non-profit UFO research organization in Phoenix until
his death. This position made her privy to unpublished
research and more than 80,000 documented cases from 161
countries.
For many decades, the
Steigers have researched and investigated UFOs and their
cultural impact throughout world history, as well as
lecturing and conducting seminars on the phenomenon
throughout the United States and overseas. Sherry and Brad
were featured in 22 episodes of the television series Could
It Be a Miracle. Together their television appearances and
specials include: The Joan Rivers Show, Entertainment
Tonight, Inside Edition, Hard Copy, Hollywood Insider, and
specials on HBO, USA Network, The Learning Channel, The
History Channel, Arts and Entertainment (A&E), among
others. They appear frequently as guests on numerous
domestic and international radio talk shows.
AN EXCELLENT REVIEW OF
REAL ALIENS BY NICK REDFERN, AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS BESTSELLING
BOOKS ON UFOS AND FORTEAN SUBJECTS:
Real Aliens: A
New Steiger-And-Steiger Title
The very latest in an
excellent series of titles from the husband-and-wife team of
Brad Steiger and Sherry Hansen Steiger, Real Aliens,
Space Beings, and Creatures from other Worlds, is yet
another winner, I'm pleased to say.
Running at almost
400-pages, and packed with superb artwork (paintings,
photographs and drawings), this is one of those books that
is not only highly informative, but (just like all the books
from our Iowa-based Dynamic Duo) it's written in an
entertaining and atmospheric style that captures the
imagination of the reader from page-one, and holds their
attention throughout.
With that said, what
about the content? Well, now we get to the really good
stuff. Whether you're a Ufological veteran or a relative
newcomer to the scene, Real Aliens will serve as a
perfect resource tool - one from which you'll (a) learn a
great deal about the nature of the UFO puzzle, (b) gain new
insights and appreciations of cases old and recent, and (c)
come to realize the sheer enormity and multifaceted nature
of the phenomenon.
The book is split into
specific sections, which I particular enjoyed, as it allows
the reader to dip into whichever area they choose to first,
and doing so doesn't affect one's ability to understand and
appreciate the data under scrutiny either.
So, we get sections on
the many and varied types of entity that have been reported
over the decades, including, of course, those pesky,
black-eyed dwarfs: the Grays. Detailing intriguing and,
sometimes, harrowing data, as well as the possibility that
the Grays may well be time-surfers, this is an excellent
section that gets to the heart of the agenda of the pasty,
skinny abductors from beyond.
Those long-haired
hippie-like E.T.'s that came tumbling out of the deserts of
California, Arizona and Nevada in the early-1950s - the
Nordic Space Brothers - are also the subject of an excellent
chapter that provides a very good, solid account of this
particularly engaging (to me anyway) aspect of the UFO
issue. Who are the Nordics? Are they friends? Messengers?
Deceptive entities with devious agendas? You know what to do
to get those answers: buy the book!
Our fearless authors
also take another very welcome blast into the past: in
search of hairy humanoids, such as those diminutive types
that popped up in the early '50s, and, of course, the
world's most famous hair-covered man-beast: Bigfoot. I've
said it before, but that won't stop me saying it again:
Bigfoot is not just weird and elusive. Rather, Bigfoot is
just too damn weird and elusive! And Brad and Sherry make
this amply clear in Real Aliens, by chronicling a
number of significant cases that push Bigfoot into
distinctly Fortean territories.
I was very pleased to
see a whole chapter devoted to one of those ufological
beasts that doesn't usually get the attention it deserves,
and as a result, often languishes in somewhat of a degree of
enigmatic obscurity: the Praying Mantis. Insect-like,
slightly ominous (and almost echoing imagery of the classic
1950s movie, Them!), one gets the feeling from reading this
particular chapter that these entities (whatever their
origins) play a substantial, and under-appreciated role in
the non-human agenda.
And there are further
chapters on the other-world critters too, including the
more-than-ominous Reptilians, and robotic types reminiscent
of Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still (I mean the 1951
original; not the recent remake).
Moving on from
specifically the alien entities themselves: if you're into
stories of underground bases, underwater installations, and
cavernous abodes of a type that would have had Richard
Shaver and Ray Palmer foaming at the mouth, you're in for a
treat. Have beings from other realms of existence secretly
established outposts on (and under) our world? Do they
secretly move among us, at night, after surfacing from their
darkened abodes? Might some of these creatures represent the
last vestiges of a very ancient race of terrestrial - rather
than extraterrestrial - origins? You'll find a great deal of
food for thought on these very issues in this particular
chapter.
Have you ever wondered
what it might be like to have sex with a blistering hot,
Barbarella-style space-babe? Go on, admit it: of course you
have! After all, who could say no to Truman Bethurum's
flirty and curvy Aura Rhanes?
Certainly, the most
famous of all such cases - described in detail in Real
Aliens - is that of a certain Antonio Villas Boas of
Brazil, whose October 1957 encounter with an attractive
chick of the cosmic kind, is now near-legendary. But, as the
Steiger's correctly note, some such cases seem downright
malevolent, and appear to demonstrate characteristics
suggestive of encounters with incubus and succubi, rather
than with flesh-and-blood E.T.'s. So, after reading this
chapter, you might want to be very careful with respect to
what you wish for...
Kind of on a similar
path, the highly controversial issue of alien-human hybrids
is also given the Steiger treatment. To many, this issue is
all indicative of a clandestine, genetic program - and maybe
one that has a disturbing agenda. Namely: to infiltrate our
society with human-looking aliens. Sleepers, in other words.
I was, however, pleased to see that Brad and Sherry note the
deep and undeniable parallels between alien abduction,
hybrids and kidnapped babies, and the centuries old stories
of people who claimed to have met the fairy-folk. Are we
dealing with real E.T.'s? Or is this a presently
unfathomable puzzle that, depending on the culture, the
people and the time-frame, manifests in a multiplicity of
forms: extraterrestrials, fairies, goblins, Djinns, etc,
etc? All in all, this is a very good section of Real Aliens
that demonstrates one of the weirder aspects of the entire
phenomenon.
Certainly, in my
opinion, the most fascinating chapter is that titled Aliens:
Deceivers or Deliverers? This one gets to the very crux of
the saucer enigma, and demonstrates (a) the undeniable fact
that just because some entity, or disembodied voice, claims
to have alien origins, it may be pure folly to take it at
its word, and (b) the notable crossovers and parallels
between messages from alleged aliens and those
communications secured via psychic means. Friendly entities
from far away, or our ultimate nightmare manifesting in
kindly, camouflaged form? I hope the former; however, I
often suspect it's really the latter...
And, in summary,
you'll also find a wealth of data in the packed pages of
this book on the E.T. connection to religion (both in
times-past and times-present); astronaut encounters with
UFOs; an absolutely classic early Man in Black experience;
connections between the Nazis, UFOs, and the occult realm;
presidential knowledge of UFOs; and a great deal
more.
Real Aliens is
a highly enjoyable, deeply absorbing, and immensely
informative title that - by covering so much wide and varied
territory - makes it abundantly clear that there is a very
real UFO presence in our world. And it's one that has been
interacting with us for a very, very long time - and often
at a deeply personal level, too. But, it's also a phenomenon
that clearly has the upper-hand. Sometimes it exhibits
friendliness, at other times it displays Trickster-style
characteristics, and on more than a few occasions it's
downright malevolent and malignant.
So, in summary with
respect to Real Aliens, what can I say but: A
definitive encyclopedia of the extraterrestrial variety!
Real
Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds
By Stephen Wagner,
About.com Guide
The subject of UFOs
and aliens is not generally covered in this section of
About.com, but the breadth and depth as well as the
downright far-out strangeness of the information in Brad and
Sherry Steiger's book Real Aliens, Space Beings, and
Creatures from Other Worlds brings the subject solidly into
the realm of the paranormal.
Weird and Weirder
Still
For those who think
the UFO phenomenon consists only of flying saucers, little
gray beings, Roswell, and the occasional abduction, you have
no idea how utterly strange and far-reaching it really is.
And the Steigers' book will educate you in short order with
case after case of bizarre encounters and high
strangeness.
Yes, there are the
traditional flying saucer reports and "the grays," to be
sure, but the cases that intrigue me the most are the ones
that don't come out of the conventional mold:
- In 1979 in
Huntsville, Alabama, a woman with car trouble stops on
the side of the road where she encounters a
four-foot-tall being that seems more robot than flesh
and blood. She later finds that her car's engine has
practically been melted.
-
- March, 1967
near Butler, Pennsylvania, a father and daughter
witness globes of light descend from the sky and
transform right before their eyes into blond-haired
expressionless humanoids.
-
- March, 2010 in
Santiago, Chile, a bus-load of passengers see a
glowing UFO emerge from the sea, and then a luminous
being of some kind surrounded by flashes of light
walks toward the highway.
-
- October, 1973
on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi, two fishermen
see a fish-shaped UFO and then are abducted by three
aliens with wrinkled skin, crab-like claws and pointed
ears.
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This is only a small
sampling of the dozens upon dozens of encounters the
Steigers have assembled. Then there are UFO cases that have
a Bigfoot connection, the claims of human-alien hybrids, the
strange alien messages and warnings, alien sex, and the
mystical experiences claimed by contactees.
What's Going
On?
I don't think anyone
can come away from reading this book with the simple idea
that aliens from another planet are visiting Earth. There is
something deeper and more mysterious going on.
The people who have
these encounters, are they all crazy?
Hallucinating?
To account for the
sheer number and variety of aliens and craft reported over
the decades, the Earth would have to be visited by dozens of
races from dozens of planets outside our solar system. Is
this likely? What are these creatures and where do they
really come from? Other dimensions? Our own imaginations and
subconscious?
How can we possibly
account for all of this impossible strangeness?
Real Aliens, Space
Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds forces you to
consider all of these questions for which there are no
cut-and-dried, easy answers.
I suspect that the
answers and explanations are, for the present, beyond our
understanding. In addition to all of these queer aliens and
craft, this planet is also beset with the ghost phenomenon,
poltergeist activity, astonishing psychic connections and
synchronicities -- all of which take place every day! We
have no choice but to conclude that the universe truly is
stranger than we can imagine and that science has so far
brought us knowledge of only the thinnest surface of our
true reality.
We don't really have a
clue, I'm afraid, of the true nature of life, reality and
our existence. We're not smart enough, nor do we yet have
the tools to perceive what lies beneath the veneer of our
daily lives.
An Important
Book
For anyone who has
even the slightest interest in UFOs, the paranormal, or the
unexplained, Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from
Other Worlds should be a welcome addition to their
bookshelves. Yes, it's a fun and exciting read, but it's
also important.
To my mind, books like
this (and others such as The Mothman Prophecies, The
Holographic Universe, Hanz Holzer's ghost books, and other
Steiger books) should be read right along side of the latest
science books on astronomy, psychology and quantum physics.
The science books, as important as they are, only give you
half of the story. Books on the paranormal provide a view of
the other side of the human experience that cannot
necessarily be brought into the lab for analysis -- but are
just as "real." They happen. All the time.
And whether they are
physical, psychological, interdimensional, or something else
in nature, they cannot and should not be ignored. Instead,
as the Steigers do in this book, they should be reported,
explored, and examined -- objectively -- to the fullest
extent possible. How else are we going to get to the bottom
of it all?
Book Review:
Real Aliens, Space Beings by Authors Brad and Sherry
Steiger
Posted on
04/18/2011 by HorrorNews.net
Real Aliens, Space
Beings, and Creatures from Other
Worlds
You've read the
stories, seen the tv shows and heard the rumors, though it
never seems to be enough. Are aliens invading, have they
already or is our historical understanding all an elaborate
cover up that the powers don't want us knowing? Yunno, I
cant help but think that as fantastical and fictitious as
X-files presented itself, it may have been based on truth
rather than the inner workings of creative minds. Well, as
the Steigers bring us another tasty entry into the alien
hall of fame, there is plenty here for everybody to pick
from.
In fact, what I liked
best about the book is that it's not your usual lethargic
drawn out page turner but rather short reports and quips
from a variety of places and sources that give us alot in
little bits. My first impression was how easy I found it to
just flip forward or back to the desired sections of
interest. Whether it's the grays, the lizard folk, the
greens, the hybrids or just strange places both on and off
earth, your sure to find some satisfaction in your
exploration here.
I tend to gravitate to
the cover-ups and the what's-been-going-on? reports that
focus on government involvement and the
come-forward-witnesses needing to get things off their
chests. As we move past these strange and wild tales of
presumed non-fiction, we learn about a race or races who by
careful collaboration have kept the secrets of the worlds
from us. If this is true and very well could be, what are we
being protected from and why?
Are we to believe in
TV-like stories that sound much like the stuff we watch for
relaxation? Maybe so. The Steigers and friends don't mess
around. They have spent the time it needs to bring forward
these isolated incidents large or small. While some of the
chapters focus more on the beings themselves other tackle
the bigger picture announcements. The kind that are looming
overhead!
Real Aliens
tackles a number of short reports on secret lairs, sightings
and abduction stories that all point to some level of
interaction or proof of alien life forms. What is more
disturbing is the government level involvement hinted at
revealed as going on for quite some time. We?ll read about
ties to the lost Atlantis, about underground bases, about
levels deep, about sectors dedicated to experimentation and
several more unexplained reportings that span back into the
40's and 60's.
Is 2012 the year that
we make contact? Have the aliens been guiding our hands in
the evolution chain or are we all just some form of an
elaborate experiment that has come almost full circle? The
facts are too intriguing not to raise a few eyebrows and
wonder if the time has come for full revelation. The
Steigers do a bang up job on not only presenting the short
tidbits, but doing so in a way that seem to draw reader
interest from page to page. I think this fact alone keeps me
coming back to these books and flipping thru.. It sure is
alot to consume but don't say they never told us so.. killer
stuff for UFO fans and unexplained materials
alike.
Brad
Steiger and Sherry Hansen Steiger: Authors of the
Millennium
by Art
Champoux
There are no better
authors than this married couple. Their compendium of books
of the occult, UFOs and paranormal far exceed those of any
known authors of whom I am aware. Their new book Real
Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds is a
compendium of aliens, MIBs, creatures, ghosts, and every
kind of phantom and any entity that walks out of, through,
or descends into our limited worldly space.
If you have just one
or two of their books you are doing yourself a disservice.
Since I started reading Brad's books in the 60s and right
through five decades--along with those he has written with
Sherry--I can assure you that in the field of Ufology and
the field of the weird and the strange, he and his wife are
in the top two of all time writers.
Personally, I would
put them at number one. I have over 70 of their books, and
every time they write one I read it from front to back in
three days. Their compendium of UFO sightings of craft and
creatures goes way beyond the average UFO writers in this
day and age. Their documentation of these sightings and
their acumen in the world of paranormal is way beyond that
of most authors.
The Steigers do not
restrict themselves to just UFOs but to many aspects of the
weird and wild world of anything that is an enigma on this
planet. They do much more then just report what happens.
They try to tell the facts beyond the who, what, where, and
when of the encounters.
I would like to think
that this dynamic duo should be high up if not at the top of
all the researchers/writers in the field of the wild and
weird enigmas of time and space. If you have some of their
books, good, if you do not GO GET SOME, you will not be
disappointed.
I contend that their
latest book is a compendium of any type of enigma you can
think of--from aliens, ghosts, phantoms, creatures, MIBs, to
the highest type of research in the occult and the crash at
Roswell.
I went into Barnes and
Nobles and bought his book. If they do not have it they will
be glad to get it for you. I have over 200 books in my
library. Most are autographed by the authors. Ray Fowler,
John Fuller, Brad Steiger, John Keel, etc
I urge you to buy any
book by Brad and Sherry Steiger. Their books are not dull or
boring. I will guarantee you that you will not want to go to
sleep after reading Real Aliens--or if you do, you will want
to sleep with one eye open.
Great
review of Real Aliens by Paul Dale
Roberts
Terrific
review of Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from
Other Worlds by Lisa Lee Harp Waugh for Haunted America
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