Spooky thoughts from Loren Coleman — author of the Cosimo-Paraview title Mothman and Other Curious Encounters — on Halloween night:

MOTHMAN STILL UP TO HIS OLD TERRIFYING TRICKS

According to an expert in Portland, Maine, the Mothman is still flapping its frightening wings.

Loren Coleman is a cryptozoologist and author who says the Mothman — a mythical monster who causes disastrous events like terrible traffic accidents — is behind some current carnage, including the Minnesota bridge collapse this past summer and another bridge disaster in China two weeks later.

Coleman says there are some precise paranormal parallels, including the fact that the Minnesota bridge stretched across I-35, and was built in 1967, and the original Mothman mishap occurred in 1967, on highway 35 in West Virginia.

He says, “There’s a definite link with the Mothman across time and space. The Mothman can still have an amazing evil effect.”

Coleman is chronicling the ongoing morbid Mothman madness in his upcoming book, “Mothman: Evil Incarnate,” due out next year…

(via Wireless Flash News)

In other Loren Coleman news, his classic 1983 book Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures — published previously as an on-demand title by Cosimo partner Paraview Press — recently appeared in a new edition from Paraview Pocket Books.

There’s lots more news and discussion about strange monsters and weird events at Cryptomundo, Coleman’s popular cryptozoology site.

Mothman and Other Curious Encounters, Mysterious America, and other books by Loren Coleman are available from Amazon and other online booksellers.

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On Halloween night, Cosimo is proud to announce the publication of the first two books in Cosimo’s new series Loren Coleman Presents, classic works of cryptozoology in beautiful new editions with new introductions by Loren Coleman, one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists.

The Romance of Natural History, by British naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, was a bestseller in its day. First published in 1860, this is a charming, passionate around-the-world journey through nature wild, serene, and mysterious, from a night-attack of wolves in Mongolia and nearly fatal combat with a kangaroo to comic scenes with “the Elephant” and an examination of a supposed sea-serpent.

“In the annals of cryptozoology,” says Coleman, “Gosse is credited as one of the grandfathers of the discipline… In this book, one finds his records of the sea serpent, giant snakes, African unicorn, South America ape, and Ceylonese devil-bird, reflecting this early interest in romantic zoology, the precursor of cryptozoology.” This new edition is complete with the original elegant illustrations.

The Great Sea Serpent, from pioneering cyptozoologist Antoon Cornelis Oudemans, is the legendary 1892 survey of the reports of monsters of the sea — it was the first of its kind, and had previously been difficult to find in print. Gathering sightings from around the globe and across the centuries, Oudemans eliminates the obvious hoaxes or honest mistakes and then, from dozens of legitimate sighting, draws conclusions about sea-serpent physiology, geographic distribution, and more. This astonishing book “still influences thoughts and theories about the great unknowns in the oceans,” according to Coleman.

Click here to buy The Romance of Natural History at Amazon; click here to buy The Great Sea Serpent at Amazon.

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Cosimo-Paraview author Rao Kolluru has recently self-published a new book, Spiritual Entrepreneuring, a guide to doing well by doing good. Entrepreneurs and students of business will find a headstart in becoming more creative and more successful; corporate executives will find an aide to building a purposeful and creative workplace.

Kolluru’s Cosimo-Paraview title, River of a Thousand Tales, is a journey to the East and to the West, outward and inward, and beyond. It offers tales at once simple, revealing, and inspiring, that unveil mind and matter, nature and nurture, mindfulness and meditation, duties and rewards, life and death, the individual and the universal, the finite and the infinite. These are no mere esoteric ponderings: Kolluru, with irreverent humor, connects these stories to such pressing issues as environmental biology and public health, and offers practical guidance for everything from business to wellness.

Spiritual Entrepreneuring and River of a Thousand Tales are available at Amazon and other online booksellers.

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The response to the new Cosimo title The Power of Yin — by modern philosophers Hazel Henderson, Jean Houston, and Barbara Marx Hubbard, and edited by Barbara DeLaney — has been so overwhelming that Cosimo has launched a Web site devoted exclusively to the book.

Check out The Power of Yin for excerpts from and detailed information about the book, the complete table of contents, extensive bios of the authors, and more.

The Power of Yin is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Out-of-control wildfires, racing through bone-dry plantlife, are devouring Southern California. Lingering drought is devastating the southeastern U.S. and southern Australia. Global warming isn’t merely a future danger to the world’s supply of fresh water — the threat is already manifest today. In the new Cosimo book Water: The Blood of the Earth: Exploring Sustainable Water Management for the New Millennium, Allerd Stikker — chairman and founder of the Ecological Management Foundation — discusses present and upcoming options for ensuring the supply of clean water even as demand increases around the planet. He also explores the human relationship with water and the spiritual meanings we ascribe to it.

Praise for Water: The Blood of the Earth, from Charles Louis de Maudhuy, advisor to the chairman of Veolia Water:

Allerd Stikker has always reminded me of Alexis de Tocqueville, who would have chosen to study the problem surrounding water rather than the American democracy. He has the same insatiable curiosity, the same energy, same passion, same ease in mixing analysis with intuition, the capacity to draw together different cultures, the same capacity to listen and to dialogue with those who reason from different starting blocks. Water: The Blood of the Earth is the outcome of reflection and action of a cosmopolitan who has remained loyal to his native land, mixing some European thinking of the Age of Enlightenment with some futuristic viewpoints.

And from Antony Burgmans, former chairman of Unilever:

Lack of access to clean and sufficient water in many parts of the world, especially in Asia and Africa, will be a major issue in the coming decades. This book presents an overall view on the diversity of problems and solutions, based on the author’s involvement in water-related projects. Over the course of the years I have followed some of these projects with interest; they inspire us to take concrete actions.

Water: The Blood of the Earth is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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