The Kraken
The biggest monster in the guide and the one that turned out real: Norse sailors’ island-that-moves and ship-drowning whirlpool, answered at last by the giant squid.
The Squonk
Pennsylvania’s saddest monster: a Fearsome Critter so ashamed of its warty skin that it weeps in the dark, is tracked by its tears, and dissolves into a puddle rather than be caught. Includes rules to keep one as a familiar you can only earn by kindness.
The Goatman
Suburban Maryland’s own monster: three origin stories that cannot all be true, a real 1971 folklore study that put it in the newspaper, and a stretch of back road that keeps handing it back.
The Snallygaster
The most famous monster Maryland never had: a German nursery bogey that a 1909 newspaper war inflated into a metal-beaked, one-eyed, blood-drinking dragon-bird. Seeds the Dwayyo.
Nessie
The most famous monster on Earth, built never to be found: a famous hoax, a modern DNA hunt that came up empty, and a loch whose black water is the monster’s best accomplice.
The Snipe
The creature everyone knows is a prank, and the first cryptid in the Codex you can catch and keep. Debuts the familiar rules.
La Llorona
The Weeping Woman who drowned her children and haunts the water still. The series’ first boss monster.
Bigfoot
Upstate New York’s Bigfoot, and the officer who could not pull the trigger.
The Chupacabra
The blood-draining goat-killer of the Americas.
Mothman
The red-eyed harbinger of Point Pleasant.
The Wampahoofus
The lopsided-legged beast of the Vermont mountainsides.
Champ
The plesiosaur-shaped leviathan of Lake Champlain.
The Jersey Devil
A leathery, winged terror born of a curse in the Pine Barrens.