Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore

by Benjamin Radford

Book Overview

Among the monsters said to roam the world's jungles and desolate deserts, none is more feared than the chupacabra---the blood-sucking beast blamed for the mysterious deaths of thousands of animals since the 1990s. To some it is a joke; to many it is a very real threat and even a harbinger of the apocalypse. Originating in Latin America yet known worldwide, the chupacabra is a contradictory and bizarre blend of vampire and shapeshifter, changing its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826350151
• ISBN13: 9780826350152
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"