I am beginning work on the next issue (#51) of Animals & Men, and ask anyone who wishes to contribute to this relaunched publication to email me with submission ideas. In the meantime, here is the contents of the current issue which came out in July:
2. Faculty
3. Editorial
5. Newsfile: New and Rediscovered
8. Newsfile: Man beasts
10. Newsfile: Mystery Cats
11. Newsfile: Aquatic monsters
14. OBITUARY: Ivan Mackerle
15. CARL MARSHALL'S COLUMN:
Newbury's mutant moles
17. Nick Redfern's Letter from America
20. Watcher of the Skies by Corinna Downes
22. Giant Snakes of the World by Carl Marshall
31. Red Water:
The man-eating lake monsters of Russia
by Richard Freeman
37. The saga of the Bigfoot Genome by Jon Downes
41. Letters to the Editor
44. Reviews
46. Recent books from CFZ Press
As regular CFZ watchers will know, it is a good job that we are a non-profit making organisation because I am the world's worst businessman! I completely forgot to put up a link to buy individual copies of it. Now I have rectified that omission, and (to show my contriteness) you all have about a quid knocked off the postage...
New at the Frontiers of
Zoology:
Well, I am back in the saddle and
reasonably compos mentis. My self imposed seclusion and a diet of brandy and P.G
Wodehouse washed down with liberal doses of the new album by The Polyphonic
Spree, seems to have done the job. I have a slightly thick head this afternoon,
but that is a tiny price to pay for being able to walk, talk and think
reasonably normally again. Over the past few days I found that YouTube have a
plethora of episodes of the mid-1970s adaptations of Wodehouse stories that were
broadcast as 'Wodehouse Playhouse'. Watching these delightfully subtle, and
charming little films, I realise now what was wrong with this year's adaptations
of the Blandings Castle books. The 2013 films are mostly slapstick farce, and
Wodehouse was anything but slapstick farce. He was an immensely subtle writer,
and when dramatised tastefully they are delightful. There were moments of
greatness in the 2013 series, but they were few and far between despite the
(usually) excellent casting. But enough of me blathering on about my favourite
comic literature. On with the show!