"The Brimstone Deceit can rightly be called an instant classic because it articulates a refreshingly original approach to the paranormal and more importantly, how witnesses interpret their experiences. Joshua Cutchin carefully builds his case with fascinating, startling, and entertaining accounts from throughout history to show us that when it comes to UFOs, Bigfoot, and other high strangeness, the nose may really know what has been knocking at our doors for millennia." - Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta

"This book stinks! The Brimstone Deceit brings a fascinating new dimension to the anomalistic sensorium." - Mark Pilkington, author of Mirage Men

"Joshua is like a breath of fresh air in this community. He continually looks at these fringe and Fortean topics from an entirely new angle...Once again Joshua Cutchin knocks it out of the park!" - Kyle Philson, Expanded Perspectives

"Cutchin's temperament is truly fortean, both tentative and self-critical...I respect Cutchin's clear intelligence and clever approach... There may be the stuff of fortean greatness in him." - Jerome Clark, Fortean Times

"Cutchin's book is almost everything one could ask for in a study of the olfactory dimension of the realm of supernatural literature. It collects around a thousand accounts of smells found in supernatural experiences. The primary three genres it gets its accounts from are ghost stories, ufo literature, and Sasquatch encounters. It crucially however has a chapter that extends the findings to such Forteana as MIBs, lake monsters, chupacabras, flying dragons, black cats, black dogs, dog-men, black-eyed kids, and faeries. The sasquatch material is quite remarkable, Cutchin presenting a surprising diversity of descriptions that seems a veritable 'can you top this?' array of repulsive smell combinations that is only one shy of being universally bad in their hedonic valence." - Mrherr Zaar, Facebook

"The Brimstone Deceit is a gripping and eye-opening examination of how, why, and under what specific circumstances odors play notable - arguably, integral - roles in encounters of the paranormal kind...[In the process], Josh tackles such issues as psychedelics, altered states, stage-managed events (by who or what, is the big question), deception and manipulation of the witnesses, and much more...Josh goes down the path taken by John Keel, who came to believe that the many and varied unknown 'things' which intrude upon our world are somehow all part and parcel of something bigger, something interconnected." - Nick Redfern, Mysterious Universe