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The Loch Ness Monster is well known throughout Scotland and the rest of the world and has entered into popular culture. ==Literature== *In the book Breaking Dawn, the final book in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, main character Isabella "Bella" Cullen is angered after her best friend, werewolf Jacob Black, has imprinted on her infant daughter, Renesmee, but livid when he nicknames her "Nessie", after the former claims that the name she has come up with for her daughter is "kind of a mouthful". *In the book "Reaper" (2014) by Brock Allen, the Loch Ness monster lives as a pet to the Reaper in another dimension. There the monster is known as the Snelochs and is released in our world by some kids that are trying to rescue the main character's sister from the Reaper. *In the Leslie Charteris short story "The Convenient Monster" (1959, coll. 1962) Simon Templar investigates an alleged monster attack, finding a human culprit - who is then attacked by the real monster. A 1966 TV adaptation ends more ambiguously. *The Scottish poet Edwin Morgan published the sound poem "The Loch Ness Monster's Song" in 1973. *In Roger Zelazny's short story, "The Horses of Lir" (1981), collected in the anthology ''Unicorn Variations'' (1983), the Loch Ness Monster is one of several creatures stabled in a cave near the loch who draw the chariot of the Celtic sea-god Lir. *In the book ''The Boggart and the Monster'' (1997) by Susan Cooper, the Loch Ness Monster is actually an invisible shape-shifting creature that has become trapped in one form. *In the book ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' (2001) by J.K. Rowling, the "Loch Ness Monster" is said to be a misunderstanding of what is in fact the world's largest kelpie. *''The Loch'' (2005) by Steve Alten is a novel about the Loch Ness Monster which incorporates many historical and scientific elements into the story line. In the book, the creature is said to be a species of gigantic and carnivorous Eel. *The ''Peter and the Starcatchers'' series by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson features a minor reference to Nessie. In the novel ''Peter and the Shadow Thieves'', a heroic organization mentions a reptile that was exposed to the magical substance known as "starstuff" and escaped into Loch Ness before it could be caught. *The tabloid ''Weekly World News'' often reports on the creature, claiming that it has become pregnant, or been captured, sold, or killed. *In Keri Arthur's book ''Destiny Kills'' (2009), Destiny is a shape-changing sea dragon whose ancestral home is Loch Ness. She states that the legend of the Loch Ness Monster often provided her family the cover they needed to live among the humans undetected. *''The Cryptid Files: Loch Ness'' (2010) by (Jean Flitcroft ) is a novel for children published by (Little Island ) that features the Loch Ness Monster and which interweaves the story of a budding cryptozoologist Vanessa Day with facts about Nessie and Loch Ness. *In the 39 clues (by Rick Riordan and other authors) the Loch Ness is actually a monster-shaped submarine by the Ekaterinas. *In the Scotland-based ''Outlander'' time travel series by Diana Gabaldon sighting of the Loch Ness Monster and discussion of the subject appears in the early books. The central character and heroine, Claire, not only sees the 'Monster' (when she has gone back to the Jacobite period by passing through a circle of standing stones), but later back in her own present time discusses the theory that there could be a similar 'time passage' under the loch which would explain the infrequency of the 'Monster's' appearance - it surfaces in present-day occasionally but then goes back to its own time - she identifies the 'Monster' she has seen as 'probably a Plesiosaur'. *Dick King-Smith wrote a novel, ''The Water Horse'', which was the basis for a film (see below, under Movies). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Loch Ness Monster in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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