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In Defense of Nessie

An excerpt from BJ Hollars’s chapbook In Defense of Monsters, on the Loch Ness monster and why the story persists.

a shelf of chapbooks:short, folded, two-colour,gone within a year.
The chapbook is a physical tradition as much as a literary one: short, cheaply printed, and made to be handed around.

The excerpt takes the most famous of the three creatures in the collection and asks not whether it is real, but why the belief in it survives every disproof. It is a good short introduction to the book’s method. Back to In Defense of Monsters.

Where this lives now

The book is out of print from Origami Zoo Press. We reproduce no text from it here; this page describes the excerpt. We are not the publisher and sell nothing.