Due in October and now available for Amazon pre-order in the UK (only), the paperback of Stephen T. Asma’s On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears (Oxford University Press). Ironically the hardback can had new, right now from third-parties on Amazon UK, and for just about the same price with shipping as the paperback will sell for when it eventually comes out in the UK. And it can currently be picked up for about $11 on Amazon USA. No sign of a Kindle edition for the UK, yet — which is rather ironic since that’s where Oxford University Press is based. If they have held off from a Kindle edition in the UK for fear of eating into paperback sales, then they just don’t understand their buyers. Anyway, On Monsters looks like an excellent book and has had good reviews. It apparently has very little to say about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, etc, which is encouraging. Although it does also look at human monsters such as psychopaths and authoritarian ideologues, so it’s not all supernatural monsters. The Telegraph‘s review is here.