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Displeased to Meet Me: Invasions from a Parallel Universe

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Displeased to Meet Me: Invasions from a Parallel Universe

January 12, 2014 — 4 Comments

The World According to Greenland: Inuit, Erqigdlit and Qavdlundt

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

The World According to Greenland: Inuit, Erqigdlit and Qavdlundt

January 10, 2014 — 0 Comments

Exiles from Fairyland: Finding Your Phynnodderee on the Isle of Man

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Exiles from Fairyland: Finding Your Phynnodderee on the Isle of Man

January 1, 2014 — 1 Comment

The Demon Dog Made Me Do It: Confessions of Sorcerer Abel de La Rue and Serial Killer David Berkowitz

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Demon Dog Made Me Do It: Confessions of Sorcerer Abel de La Rue and Serial Killer David Berkowitz

December 26, 2013 — 7 Comments

Godfather Christmas and the Yuletide Enforcers: Have Yourself a Monstrous Christmas

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Godfather Christmas and the Yuletide Enforcers: Have Yourself a Monstrous Christmas

December 24, 2013 — 0 Comments

Mo’ Treasure, Mo’ Problems: Defending the Compulsive Hoarding of the Griffin

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Mo’ Treasure, Mo’ Problems: Defending the Compulsive Hoarding of the Griffin

December 20, 2013 — 0 Comments

The Unicorn Conspiracy: Revisionist Mythology of Enchanted Equines

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

The Unicorn Conspiracy: Revisionist Mythology of Enchanted Equines

December 15, 2013 — 3 Comments

Undead Elvis or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Afterlife

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Undead Elvis or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Afterlife

December 10, 2013 — 1 Comment

The Devilish Dealings of General Jonathan Moulton, an American Faust

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Devilish Dealings of General Jonathan Moulton, an American Faust

December 3, 2013 — 0 Comments

Bear Necessities: Ursine Origins of the Menominee, Ainu, and Arcadians

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Bear Necessities: Ursine Origins of the Menominee, Ainu, and Arcadians

November 30, 2013 — 0 Comments

Don’t Mock the Mummy: Lessons in Risk Assessment from the Mary Celeste and the S.S. Amazon

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Don’t Mock the Mummy: Lessons in Risk Assessment from the Mary Celeste and the S.S. Amazon

November 25, 2013 — 6 Comments

Do Sins Taste Like Chicken? Scapegoating and the Sin Eater

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Do Sins Taste Like Chicken? Scapegoating and the Sin Eater

November 20, 2013 — 7 Comments

Something Wicked This Way Went: Whatever Happened to the Creepy Circus?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Something Wicked This Way Went: Whatever Happened to the Creepy Circus?

November 18, 2013 — 7 Comments

The Resentful Dead: Afterlife with an Attitude Among the Japanese Funayūrei

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Resentful Dead: Afterlife with an Attitude Among the Japanese Funayūrei

November 16, 2013 — 2 Comments

Beaver Gods are Jerks: Wishpoosh, Antediluvian Terror of the Pacific Northwest

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Beaver Gods are Jerks: Wishpoosh, Antediluvian Terror of the Pacific Northwest

November 11, 2013 — 5 Comments

Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Monster Hunting Method

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Monster Hunting Method

November 8, 2013 — 2 Comments

Suburbs of the Soul: Hyperborean Giants, Lost Civilizations, and the Fear of the Future

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Suburbs of the Soul: Hyperborean Giants, Lost Civilizations, and the Fear of the Future

November 3, 2013 — 1 Comment

Lifestyles of the Dead and Restless: Halloween and the Festivals of the Forgotten

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Lifestyles of the Dead and Restless: Halloween and the Festivals of the Forgotten

October 27, 2013 — 5 Comments

Take Me to Your Lizard: Why Extraterrestrials Will Be Reptiles

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Take Me to Your Lizard: Why Extraterrestrials Will Be Reptiles

October 23, 2013 — 2 Comments

99 Problems and a Pirobolus Ain’t One: The Inflammatory History of Gendered Stones

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

99 Problems and a Pirobolus Ain’t One: The Inflammatory History of Gendered Stones

October 22, 2013 — 3 Comments

Black-Eyed Children and Slender Men: Waiter, There’s Some Emic in My Etic

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Black-Eyed Children and Slender Men: Waiter, There’s Some Emic in My Etic

October 17, 2013 — 7 Comments

Cosmological Critters that Bear the Weight of the World

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Cosmological Critters that Bear the Weight of the World

October 11, 2013 — 0 Comments

Gods Hate Giants: The Battle of Titans in the Proto-Indo-European Copper Age

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Gods Hate Giants: The Battle of Titans in the Proto-Indo-European Copper Age

October 8, 2013 — 1 Comment

He Wore a Hat, and He Had a Job, and He Brought Home the Bacon, So That No One Knew He was Homo Proximus

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

He Wore a Hat, and He Had a Job, and He Brought Home the Bacon, So That No One Knew He was Homo Proximus

October 1, 2013 — 3 Comments

Phantasmology for Fun and Profit: Model Agnosticism and the Near Death Acting Experience

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Phantasmology for Fun and Profit: Model Agnosticism and the Near Death Acting Experience

September 26, 2013 — 3 Comments

Slash Goes the Sickle Weasel: The Kōshin’etsu Kamaitachi

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Slash Goes the Sickle Weasel: The Kōshin’etsu Kamaitachi

September 26, 2013 — 0 Comments

Big Giant Heads: The Importance of Being Monstrously Gluttonous

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Big Giant Heads: The Importance of Being Monstrously Gluttonous

September 21, 2013 — 0 Comments

World War Zero: The Forgotten Conflict of the Pygmies and Cranes

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

World War Zero: The Forgotten Conflict of the Pygmies and Cranes

September 6, 2013 — 9 Comments

How I Met Your Homunculus: Alchemy and the Mad Science Gap

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

How I Met Your Homunculus: Alchemy and the Mad Science Gap

September 4, 2013 — 0 Comments

My Computer Wants to Kill Me: The Horror of the Rational

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

My Computer Wants to Kill Me: The Horror of the Rational

August 31, 2013 — 0 Comments

Taking the Bait: The Weird Worminess of the Brazilian Minhocão

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Taking the Bait: The Weird Worminess of the Brazilian Minhocão

August 30, 2013 — 0 Comments

Fear of Flying: Gremlins and the Terror of Technology

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Fear of Flying: Gremlins and the Terror of Technology

August 16, 2013 — 2 Comments

I Saw a Werewolf Drinking a Piña Colada in the Duchy of Livonia, and His Hair was Perfect

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

I Saw a Werewolf Drinking a Piña Colada in the Duchy of Livonia, and His Hair was Perfect

August 14, 2013 — 38 Comments

Shouldering the Moral Burden: An Anatomy of Acephalous Cryptids

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Shouldering the Moral Burden: An Anatomy of Acephalous Cryptids

August 12, 2013 — 2 Comments

The Fiduciary Responsibility of Evil: In the Red with Demon Accountant Astaroth

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Fiduciary Responsibility of Evil: In the Red with Demon Accountant Astaroth

August 5, 2013 — 1 Comment

Ares Incognita, Subjective Probability, and the Great Galactic Ghoul: In Space There Be Dragons

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology

Ares Incognita, Subjective Probability, and the Great Galactic Ghoul: In Space There Be Dragons

August 1, 2013 — 2 Comments

A Date With Der Nachzehrer: Germany’s Unattractive Undead

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

A Date With Der Nachzehrer: Germany’s Unattractive Undead

July 27, 2013 — 1 Comment

Bedtime Stories for Small Extraterrestrials: How the Little Green Man Went Grey

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology

Bedtime Stories for Small Extraterrestrials: How the Little Green Man Went Grey

July 24, 2013 — 5 Comments

Dragons Check In, But They Don’t Check Out: Saintly Medieval Pest Control in France

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Dragons Check In, But They Don’t Check Out: Saintly Medieval Pest Control in France

July 21, 2013 — 4 Comments

Backwards Feet Don’t Fail Me Now: Keeping it Cryptid with Monstrous Foot Fetishism

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology

Backwards Feet Don’t Fail Me Now: Keeping it Cryptid with Monstrous Foot Fetishism

July 18, 2013 — 3 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