I’ve spent a lot of time drawing monsters of late. Monsters are potentially very scary indeed, although the one you’ll see here has an element of cuteness, I think – hooves always temper a creature’s nastiness.

So this is the Jersey Devil, a meanie reported to have been sighted in the depths of the New Jersey pine forests. It’s quite terrifying, but the best part about this monster is that there’s a very faint chance that it’s real.

Cryptozoology is the study of mythological creatures (many of them monsters) and the search for the truth as to whether they once existed or actually still exist.

Creatures like the yeti, bigfoot, jersey devil and so on, all fall under the title of ‘cryptids’, and its these that I write about in the Mythical 9th Division books. Some cryptids are nasty – check out the goat-sucker (chupacabra) – and some cryptids are harmless, like the Loch Ness Monster. But it’s the not knowing whether they’re real or not that makes them interesting.

I’d love for them all to exist, because it would be lovely to know that there are still secrets to be found in this world. And because we don’t know for sure it makes the scary ones even scarier. After all, what would you do if you were lost in the South American jungle and the bloodsucking chupacabra emerged out of the darkness?

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