Book cover for Mad Dogs & Englishmen: A Tale of the Barghest by Alan Smale and JW Harp

Mad Dogs & Englishmen

A Tale of the Barghest

2026 Released
98 Pages
1-2 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
NeoParadoxaISBN 9781956463927

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.

These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes and bays, they soar the night skies, they hunt in the woods. Some are from our past, some from other worlds, and others have always been with us-watching us, fearing us, hunting us.

These are the cryptids, and Systema Paradoxa tells their tales.

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When Lindsey Ambler takes a sabbatical to figure out her life, a quiet town in Yorkshire seems the ideal place to step back and regroup.

That is, until a chance meeting at a local pub becomes a calculated engagement as a petty thug uses Lindsey as a cover to hide from those he's cheated.

Little does she know the mob is the least of her troubles as something infinitely more deadly stalks the moors and it has her scent...

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