Yes, a book with a cryptid for each state of the union.
Each entry is a few pages long and has one color pic of the cryptid, all are scary looking and a few show artistic license, which is cool as the author pointed out a number are probably made up.
I like how the author used multiple sources, in print and online, to research each entry, a few even mention books that he consulted. Alas, he did not include a bibliography.
There is a variety of beings. By my own count, 6 Bigfoot type monsters, 10 lake monsters, 2 sea monsters, 2 swamp monsters, 3 little beings, 5 flying cryptids, 2 witchy types, 5 lupine types, 2 feline types, and a vampire. One of a kinds that do not fit such broad categories are the Dark Watchers of California, Melon Heads, Specter Moose, Goat Man, Slide-Rock Bolter, Dover Demon, Wendigo, Frogmen, Squonk, Chupacabra, Pigman, and Jackalope.
It is unusual for a book of this kind to actually devote a few pages to the Slide Rock Bolter and the Squonk, most books would have shorter entries for these beings. For that matter, few books do devote a few pages to the Woods Devils of New Hampshire and the Little Devils of Spirit Mound in South Dakota.
There are only a few errors and oversights. An example of the former is that he repeats the alleged Cherokee myth about the origin of the Wampus Cat, by this late date other books that are either older than this book or almost as new as this book have pointed out that researchers have proven that that story is an example of fake lore, something that a writer made up, which is curious as the author did expose some cryptids as possibly having originated as newspaper hoaxes.
An example of the latter is that in the entry for the Jersey Devil, he correctly summarized alternate origin myths but somehow overlooked the fact that some think that the monster was based upon the wyvern that appeared on almanacs by the Leeds family, thus the boogey was possibly in part the invention of a rival of the Leeds who also printed almanacs. On the other hand, the entry on the Snallygaster is thorough and even compares the rash of alleged sightings in 1909 to those of the Jersey Devil the same year and there is a paragraph of a version of the Snallygaster in the Harry Potter universe.
I must note that the chapter Washington : Sasquatch/Bigfoot includes a little on similar monsters that do not have their own entries such as Hairy Man, Yayali and Ste-Ye-Hah, just to name three, and it is the longest entry in the book because of this, and, yes, a few monsters actually appear in more than one state.
Overall, a great book.
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