Cryptid
The regional monsters of North America, set in twenty-by-twenty.
Volume two collects the local monsters — the ones with a county road, a fishing pier and a roadside plaque attached. Grids are grouped by watershed rather than by state, which is how the stories actually travel.
Published independently through Amazon KDP.
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99 Grids / 20 x 20
Grouped into eleven watersheds, each with its own vocabulary set.16pt Large Print
Identical typographic spec to Volume One — the series reads as one object.8.5in x 11in / 212 Pages
Perfect bound, cream interior stock, matte laminate cover.Digital Only — QR Delivered
Solutions live at ramirezandsons.com/answers/cryptid.Every state keeps one. This volume keeps all of them.
A cryptid is a geographic fact before it is a biological claim. We built the grids to follow water: the Ohio, the Chesapeake, the Salish Sea, the long dry rivers of the southwest.
The vocabulary is deliberately unglamorous. Track cast. Hair sample. Game camera. The romance is in the persistence, not the creature.
Elsewhere in the catalog
Volume 02 of 06Analog
Obsolete technology and the words we retired with it.
Lighthouse
The working language of the keeper, the tender and the lamp.
Night Shift
For the hours between eleven and five.