Stories and sightings of ghostly and demonic black dogs are woven through the folklore and mythology of the British Isles. Perhaps the most ancient and well known of these entities is the Black Shuck. Tales of the Black Shuck, or simply Shuck, haunt rural East Anglia, the coast and countryside of the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. Descriptions of the creature’s nature and appearance vary across time and space. What remains consistent, however, are the descriptions of its tremendous size—almost that of a horse—its shaggy black fur, and…
