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is an examination of unidentified swimming objects. Following on the work of
Oudemans and Heuvelmans, he considered that these creatures were a type of giant long-necked seal. It was positively reviewed as "both scholarly and entertaining, avoiding the excesses of gullible monster-mania and blind
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1977 Heart Grown Brutal: Irish
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Leopold Bloom: a novel (Roberts Rinehart)
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Monsters (Garnstone Press) hardback
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McKelvie, Colin (1974). "Legends, Ghosts and
Monsters".
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The Magic Zoo: The Natural History of Imaginary Animals
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Stimulus of Sin: Selected Writings of John Broderick
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