‘Monsters 100 Weird Creatures from Around the World’

 It’s Alive! And features Whitstable's own mighty CRABZILLA!

We are so happy to announce the publication today of ‘Monsters 100 Weird Creatures from Around the World’ by Sarah Banville and Quinton Winter.

Ferocious thanks to the wonderful team at Wren & Rook (Hachette Children’s Group) for their support and believing in monsters.

Thank you to our superb agent Katie Fulford of Bell Lomax Moreton who has always supported and championed us.

Monsters is available in bookshops and online… NOW!

https://geni.us/100MONSTERS

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Lunatic Hound of Duncan Down

It has recently been reported that a lunatic dog has been biting trees in the Duncan Down area of Whitstable. So far more than 20 trees have been gnawed by its evil fangs.

Is this a new beast prowling around the town? Or is it new evidence of the giant fox? Panther? or even the mysterious and terrible black dog?

As the summer approaches, can the town handle more strange beasts?

See here for the article on the Kent Online website.

Here a photo of the gnawing by Chris Davey

As ever, if you have any information or photographs, or if you could do a drawing if you've survived an encounter, please send them in to me.

The Lurker - eye-witness drawing!

There has been an incredible amount of interest in the last post about The Lurker - It seems I'm not the only Whitstable resident who has witnessed this nocturnal nightmare. 

I have received an email from a local father who's 12 year old daughter saw the beast last year, and was left quite shaken. This is a direct transcript from the email I received:

Last year our cat (George) went missing and my daughter was very upset.
She would look out of her window hoping George would appear. One night, just after the sun had gone down, she had gone up stairs to get ready for bed when we heard her scream.
We ran upstairs ‘What’s wrong?’ we asked. She explained she had been looking out of the window when she had seen a ‘thing’ in the back garden.
She continued it was neither a man or an animal. That it stood like a man but had long arms and moved like an animal.
The thing that had frightened her the most was it’s eyes which she said shone out in the dark.
I went outside to see if anything was there but I couldn’t see anything.
The following day my daughter drew the attached picture.

Many thanks to P.E. and N.R.E. of Whitstable - thanks for coming forward, and the drawing is fantastic!

The Lurker

A sunday night in March this year, I was closing the blind at the back of our house and I saw some movement in the dark. Thinking it was a fox, I slowly crept out the back door with my camera and took a snap. The flash caused a great commotion as what I thought was a fox scrabbled to get up and over our fence and shed. It was only when I checked the photo on my laptop I saw that it was no fox... it was a strange, long-limbed monkey type creature. A lurker.
Anyone else seen this creature? If so, drop me a line.