Linda S. Godfrey is the award-winning author of over a dozen non-fiction books on strange creatures, people and places. She lives with her husband and Lhasa apso, Grendel, on the edge of southeast Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine State Forest, and her latest nonfiction book, "American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America," will be released in August 2014 by Tarcher/Penguin. http: //lindagodfrey.com.