Lee Prosser's Ghostvillage.com review of "Memoirs of a Monster Hunter: A Five-Year Journey in Search of the Unknown":
Nick Redfern is a well-known author in the field of the supernatural. He has written many books including
Strange Secrets. He also writes for Fate and UFO, among other magazines. Those new to his writing will find
this book makes for exciting reading. This is Nick Redfern's five-year journey in search of the unknown.
Along the way, Nick Redfern chronicles his highly surreal trip, which includes encounters with chupacabras,
goat-men, werewolves, gargoyles, living dinosaurs, giant birds, and other creatures. Redfern investigates
things that go bump in the night in an up-close and very personal manner.
Well-written, this is an entertaining book reading experience. It should capture a wide reading audience
with its unique encounters. Roswell, New Mexico and its extraterrestrials are also covered in this book
and there is a photo of the Roswell UFO Museum on page 234.
There are sixteen chapters in the book, plus a detailed resources section and index. Among the topics
covered are tales from Taos, New Mexico, fangs, fur, and flies, monsters of the Big Thicket, spectral
animals, creatures of the black lagoon, in search of vampires, on the track of Bigfoot, and back to the
Island of Blood. Each chapter will hold the reader spellbound!
This is the type of book which makes for enjoyable reading entertainment, and a unusual education into
the unknown as witnessed by Nick Redfern. If you are looking for something lively, with an ironic sense
of humor, then this is also going to be a treat for you to read.
Nick Redfern knows his monsters, and he shares them with his reading audience. Highly recommended
entertainment.
Linda Godfrey, author of "Hunting the American Werewolf" on "Man-Monkey":
I would buy Nick Redfern's new book, Man-Monkey: In Search of the British Bigfoot, for the title and charming British place names
alone: Grubstreet, Cannock Chase, and Shugborough Hall. Sounds like a landscape straight out of Harry Potter. But the hairy,
apelike creature that has haunted this part of the British Isles since 1879 is anything but kid-stuff.
Sightings that included a giant "chimpanzee", a large and hairy, upright bear, a werewolf-like "Moon Beast" and more became the
targets of Redfern's five-year, on-site investigation. In the course of his work, Redfern scrounged up forgotten old files,
interviewed dozens of witnesses, and quaffed endless flasks of tea in his hunt for the truth about this furry fiend.
Redfern examines explanations from the natural to the Fortean, allowing that the ancient myth of the shape-shifting Kelpie
just may play a part in these strange appearances. This book is an important contribution to the annals of furry, upright
creature lore and belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in unidentified animals or unexplained mysteries.
Publisher's Weekly on Celebrity Secrets:
This collection offers a roundup of the titillating,
mundane, hilarious and unusual information gathered by
government agencies-including the FBI, CIA and
military-on more than 20 celebrities. Collected
through Freedom of Information Act requests, this
provides a quick-reading peek into the files of Errol
Flynn, John Wayne, Billie Holiday and Princess Diana,
among others. Each chapter provides a brief bio,
explains why the government investigated and then lays
open the file, highlighting details both juicy and
inane and answering some frequently asked celebrity
quesitons: Was John Lennon funding Irish terrorism?
Was Frank Sinatra really in league with the mob? Why
was Jimi Hendrix discharged from the Army? And what in
the hell were the Kingsmen singing about, anyway?
Frequently, the motivation behind an agency's interest
is the most intriguing part of the file; Rock Hudson,
for example, was tailed by the FBI because he was
slated to portray one of their own in a film. Several
dozen short entries round up the book, covering
Lucille Ball, Jack London and the Sex Pistols, to name
a few. This title is satisfying both as a repository
of quick and dirty celebrity trivia and as a revealing
cross-section of Washington's long, tense relationship
with Hollywood.
Publisher's Weekly on Three Men Seeking Monsters:
Ufologist Redfern (Cosmic Crashes, etc.) and two
paranormally inclined pals, Jonathon Downes and
Richard Freeman, take the reader for a rollicking,
often alcohol-infused ride in a camper during the
summer of 2001, "chasing monsters around the British
countryside." Redfern dredges up a number of
secondhand, sometimes centuries-old accounts of
"de-evolved" humans and other odd creatures, even once
citing Daniel Defoe, an author well known for his
tendency to mix fact and fiction, on the existence of
wild men in the West Country. At one point Redfern
remarks, "Jon was unsure of the cause of all this
mystery and mayhem, but speculated that some form of
ethereal, superior intelligence coexisted with us-and
had done so for millennia-and that, for reasons of its
own, was constantly manipulating and molding the human
mind with images of bizarre and unexplained
phenomena." Some may feel that's as good an
explanation as any for the elusive beings they
investigate. At the end of their quest, Redfern and
his colleagues weren't disappointed-nor will
like-minded readers be after finishing this cheerful
excursion into the occult fringe.
Joshua P. Warren, author of Pet Ghosts and How to Hunt
Ghosts on Memoirs of a Monster Hunter:
"This is one of the best books I've read in years.
Redfern sweeps you away on his personal adventure.
Around the world, from romance, to ghastly beasts, to
the cosmos, Redfern has candidly shared the wonders of
his young life."
Marie Jones, author of PSIence and Supervolcano on
Memoirs of a Monster Hunter:
"Memoirs of a Monster Hunter is a wild and wolly
five-year odyssey into the unknown, courtesy of one of
the premier investigative researchers and authors in
the field. Redfern's adventures and often hilarious
antics will leave you breathless."
Bruce Maccabbee, Journal of Scientific Exploration, on
On the Trail of the Saucer Spies:
"The bottom line, according to Redfern's well
documented book, is that there has been a considerable
amount of government spying on ufologists, but it was
not so much carried out because of a fear that
ufologists would learn government secrets about flying
saucers, but rather because the intelligence agencies
were afraid that some ufologists were being 'used,'
willingly or unwillingly, as information sources by
foreign intelligence services... Redfern demonstrates
that the MIB myth is not without foundation... I
recommend this book to everyone and especially to
those who have not yet requested a copy of their
'file.'"
Stuart Miller, UFO Review, on Body Snatchers in the
Desert:
"In Body Snatchers, Nick almost certainly offers the
definitive explanation about what happened at Roswell.
It may not be what you want to hear because I will
tell you right now; it doesn't involve aliens, but as
you read what he says, if your reaction is the same as
mine was, then you will find yourself reluctantly
coming to the conclusion that he has probably cracked
it. As you read it, there is a dreaded sense of
feeling that it all just seems to make a horrible
sense.
There is a lot to take in and it will be difficult to
absorb in one hit but as you do, you will be struck
with a further wave of shock as you then consider the
implications of what he has to say. They are very,
very profound for this subject that we love.
For others there will be a sense of relief that, as
they see it, this albatross is finally removed from
around their necks and Ufology can get on with its
life unfettered by the distraction of this incident.
I would like to congratulate Nick on what I consider
to be a truly excellent piece of research. My feeling
is that this may well come to be regarded as his
seminal work.
Strange
Secrets Reviews:
Redfern and Roberts, both experienced writers on UFOs and the paranormal,
preface their study of real-life X-files by admitting that, "the nature
of intelligence work requires agencies to obtain information on just about
anything and everything that might conceivably have a bearing on national
security." So it's no surprise that "documentation on the 'unknown'
has been created and studied at an official level." The authors have
uncovered such files from the U.S., British and former Soviet governments
touching on alien visitations, the use of psychic spies and other strange
subjects. A local vampire legend was used by the U.S. in the Philippines as
part of a psy-ops program. The authors discuss reports that the British government
convened a secret ministerial briefing to discuss the mysterious crop circles
that had started appearing in the 1980s. And they explore the possibility
that some supposed UFO sightings were actually of highly advanced, secret
technology being tested by the U.S. government. This is a trove of entertaining
stories for X-files fans and government skeptics. Publishers Weekly, 2003
Redfern and Roberts definitely did their research. I hope they do a follow-up. The Town Talk, 2003.
A Covert Agenda Reviews:
Billed as the shocking truth of the British Government's UFO conspiracy, anyone
with a remote interest will be held spellbound by this claimed expose. His
book gives much food for thought. Daily Express, 1997.
A Covert Agenda is a gripping and utterly readable account of a conspiracy and silence that has allegedly existed at the highest levels of the British Government. Alien Encounters, 1997.
A Covert Agenda is an accomplished and thoroughly fascinating expose of official government and military interest in the phenomenon. UFO Magazine, 1997.
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