Author/Illustrator Philippe Coudray has a free English-language version of his book ‘A Guidebook To Hidden Animals’ on his website:

http://www.philippe-coudray.com/Pages/Cryptozoologie%20philippe%20coudray.html

This is very much NOT a #PopCryptid book but one in the vein of #BernardHeuvelmans - so lots of retro 60’s-ish #Cryptids . Some of the #HiddenAnimals depicted are extremely obscure and outlandish, including the first #Sauropod to show up in this instance for me: one with a horn and flippers. And then there’s the monster of Lake Tanganyika…

The dream was definitely inspired by the #AmFearLiathMòr / #BreninLlwyd entry from Coleman and Huyghe’s Field Guide as well as Mark A. Hall’s super #TrueGiant . Unlike modern #cryptids these authors view such entities as regular old flesh and blood animals. How they could possibly remain as #HiddenAnimals in an otherwise rational universe is truly mind-boggling. Hall at least thought there was a conspiracy of silence for inexplicable reasons.

#Cryptozoology