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Dead and Dreaming: Persistence of the Unconscious After Death

Anthropology, Folklore, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Dead and Dreaming: Persistence of the Unconscious After Death

November 3, 2018 — 5 Comments

Queer Eye for the Dead Guy: Naked Ghosts and Phantom Fashion

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Queer Eye for the Dead Guy: Naked Ghosts and Phantom Fashion

August 30, 2018 — 3 Comments

The Curious Afterlife of The Lord of Cool

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Curious Afterlife of The Lord of Cool

July 13, 2018 — 0 Comments

Captain Monckton’s Invisible Guest

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology

Captain Monckton’s Invisible Guest

July 1, 2018 — 0 Comments

Frederick Marryat and the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Frederick Marryat and the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

May 19, 2018 — 2 Comments

Algernon Joy and His Useless Doppelgänger

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Algernon Joy and His Useless Doppelgänger

May 19, 2018 — 6 Comments

Daniel Defoe’s Insufficiently Haunted Planet

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Daniel Defoe’s Insufficiently Haunted Planet

May 5, 2018 — 3 Comments

Beware Ghosts Bearing Gifts: Ezekiel Grosse and the Curse of the Rosewarne Gold

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Beware Ghosts Bearing Gifts: Ezekiel Grosse and the Curse of the Rosewarne Gold

April 28, 2018 — 1 Comment

Be Nice to Dead People: Professor Junker and the Reanimated Corpse

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Be Nice to Dead People: Professor Junker and the Reanimated Corpse

April 24, 2018 — 4 Comments

What’s the Market Value of the Devil?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

What’s the Market Value of the Devil?

April 6, 2018 — 1 Comment

Astral Projection for the Discriminating Dog

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Astral Projection for the Discriminating Dog

March 27, 2018 — 1 Comment

Notes from the Creepy Underground: Bergmönch and Meister Hämmerling

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Notes from the Creepy Underground: Bergmönch and Meister Hämmerling

March 26, 2018 — 2 Comments

Dead Men Tell No Tales and Corpses are Rotten Witnesses

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Dead Men Tell No Tales and Corpses are Rotten Witnesses

March 25, 2018 — 0 Comments

Slumlord to a Ghost: The Case of Giles Bolacre vs. Pierre Piquet

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Slumlord to a Ghost: The Case of Giles Bolacre vs. Pierre Piquet

March 25, 2018 — 0 Comments

The Wakulwe Theory of Ghosts

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

The Wakulwe Theory of Ghosts

March 15, 2018 — 0 Comments

Once Upon a Time in Chennai: The Ghost and Captain Halpin

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Once Upon a Time in Chennai: The Ghost and Captain Halpin

March 3, 2018 — 2 Comments

Greeting the Unknown Guest: Party Crasher or Host?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Greeting the Unknown Guest: Party Crasher or Host?

February 28, 2018 — 1 Comment

The Devil Went Down to Dartmoor: Remedial Tort Law for Imps

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Devil Went Down to Dartmoor: Remedial Tort Law for Imps

February 18, 2018 — 2 Comments

Tell Us a Ghost Story, Mummy: Khonsuemheb and the Whiny Ghost

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Tell Us a Ghost Story, Mummy: Khonsuemheb and the Whiny Ghost

February 16, 2018 — 3 Comments

A Zillion Years of Solitude: The Loneliness of the Anthropic Universe

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

A Zillion Years of Solitude: The Loneliness of the Anthropic Universe

January 2, 2018 — 14 Comments

The Best Dressed Anomalist on Radio

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Technology

The Best Dressed Anomalist on Radio

December 13, 2017 — 0 Comments

Wärndorfer and the Poltergeist of Lerchenfelderstrasse 158

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Wärndorfer and the Poltergeist of Lerchenfelderstrasse 158

December 7, 2017 — 3 Comments

Radio Free EsoterX: Obscure Ghost Ships

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Technology

Radio Free EsoterX: Obscure Ghost Ships

December 5, 2017 — 0 Comments

The Bedevilment of Benvenuto Cellini

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Bedevilment of Benvenuto Cellini

November 27, 2017 — 4 Comments

Love and Longing in Ancient Amphipolis: Dating the Dead

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Love and Longing in Ancient Amphipolis: Dating the Dead

November 13, 2017 — 1 Comment

Friends Don’t Let Friends Hunt Ghosts: The Dogged Haunting of Ballechin House

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Friends Don’t Let Friends Hunt Ghosts: The Dogged Haunting of Ballechin House

October 31, 2017 — 2 Comments

Forsaking Zalmoxis: Where do Broken Gods Go?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Forsaking Zalmoxis: Where do Broken Gods Go?

October 29, 2017 — 2 Comments

Fishy Phenomena: Unidentified Submarine Objects and Sea Serpents

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Fishy Phenomena: Unidentified Submarine Objects and Sea Serpents

October 24, 2017 — 5 Comments

Picnic in Pridade no Maranhao: The Legal Empire of the Ants

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Picnic in Pridade no Maranhao: The Legal Empire of the Ants

October 18, 2017 — 1 Comment

Putting Down the Paranormal, or Sailing the Ship of Theseus until it Sinks

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Putting Down the Paranormal, or Sailing the Ship of Theseus until it Sinks

October 16, 2017 — 0 Comments

Internship of the Undead: Christopher Monig, Afterlife Apothecary

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Internship of the Undead: Christopher Monig, Afterlife Apothecary

September 29, 2017 — 5 Comments

Turtles to the Left of Me, Turtles to the Right: The Practopoietic Loop of Causation

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Turtles to the Left of Me, Turtles to the Right: The Practopoietic Loop of Causation

September 12, 2017 — 0 Comments

Fowl Play: The Trial of a Sorcerous Swiss Rooster

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Fowl Play: The Trial of a Sorcerous Swiss Rooster

September 6, 2017 — 3 Comments

If It Weren’t for those Meddling Squids

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

If It Weren’t for those Meddling Squids

August 29, 2017 — 3 Comments

Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.

August 16, 2017 — 7 Comments

Asylum Earth: The Voices in My Head are Scientists

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Asylum Earth: The Voices in My Head are Scientists

August 14, 2017 — 3 Comments

I’ve Been Working on the Creepy Railroad

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Technology

I’ve Been Working on the Creepy Railroad

July 31, 2017 — 2 Comments

Head Games: The Revenge of a Kalinga Ghost

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Head Games: The Revenge of a Kalinga Ghost

July 19, 2017 — 0 Comments

5 Rules for Dating My Classical Arcadian Werewolf

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

5 Rules for Dating My Classical Arcadian Werewolf

July 11, 2017 — 2 Comments

Dame of Doom: The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Dame of Doom: The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns

July 10, 2017 — 0 Comments

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”
-Laini Taylor

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Life is Hard. After all, it kills you.”
-Katherine Hepburn

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
-Theodor Adorno

“All would be well. All would be heavenly–If the damned would only stay damned.”
-Charles Fort

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
–Jerry Garcia

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps a few buildings.”
–Yeardley Smith

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

“The earth, it has been said, is one vast graveyard, and man can nowhere put down his foot without stepping on the remains of a brother.”
–M. Schele de Vere

“Even from the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
–H.P. Lovecraft

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
–Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.”
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
–Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.”
–Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
–Günter Grass, German Novelist