Richard Freeman- Dragons: More Than a Myth?

Richard Freeman is a working cryptozoologist. He searches for and writes about unknown animals. The

melodramatic may call him a monster hunter. He has hunted for creatures such as the yeti,the Mongolian

death worm , the giant anaconda, the almasty,orang-pendek the gul, the naga, the ninki-nanka and the

Tasmanian wolf. He is the Zoological Director at the Centre for Fortean Zoology. This is the world’s only

full time mystery animal research organization. It is based in North Devon, England.

A former zookeeper Richard has worked with over 400 species from spiders to elephants but lists

crocodiles as his favourite.

He has lectured at the Natural History Museum in London and the Grant Museum of Zoology well as the

Last Tuesday Society at Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors. Richard is also a regular contributor to the

magazine Fortean Times.

He has written books about cryptozoology, folklore and monsters including Dragons: More Than a Myth?

, Explore Dragons, The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia: An A to Z of Japanese Monsters, and Orang-Pendek:

Sumatra’s Forgotten Ape. However he has recently branched out into horror and weird fantasy with Green

Unpleasant Land: 18 Tales of British Horror and Hyakumonagatari: Tales of Japanese Horror Book One.

His latest work is an overview of cryptozoology and a chronicle of his own expeditions entitled

Adventures in Cryptozoology volumes one and two. He is currently working on a book of high strangeness

fortean cases called The Highest Strangeness.