Philip, Lorna J.2025-03-102025-03-102024-09Philip, L J 2024, 'Selling the nation : the commodification of monstrous, mythical and fantastical creatures', Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 140, no. 3-4, pp. 474-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2024.23637801470-2541ORCID: /0000-0002-4788-2798/work/164097039https://hdl.handle.net/2164/25138Acknowledgements Sincere thanks are due to Chris Philo for providing me with an opportunity to engage with the subject matter of this paper, developing ideas that were outlined in an article I contributed to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s newsletter The Geographer (Philip, 2021). The genesis of those ideas was musings about the agency of the Loch Ness Monster presented in a short co-authored piece, published under a pseudonym, in the Royal Geographical Society Postgraduate Forum’s publication, Praxis (Gordon & Tonic, 1997). A copy of the Praxis article is available on request. Thanks are also due to the two anonymous reviewers and the Special Issue editors whose helpful and supportive comments informed the revised version of the paper published in this special issue. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.161178323engScotlandcultural heritagekelpiesunicornsLoch Ness MonsterG Geography (General)Geography, Planning and DevelopmentEarth-Surface ProcessesG1Journal article10.1080/14702541.2024.2363780http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85195638829&partnerID=8YFLogxK1403