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Has Anybody Seen Where We Put the Dauphin?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Has Anybody Seen Where We Put the Dauphin?

December 30, 2016 — 1 Comment

Karma Kills: Sorcery and Enguerrand de Marigny

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Karma Kills: Sorcery and Enguerrand de Marigny

December 21, 2015 — 2 Comments

Love Song from the Grave: Balthazzarini, Henry III, and N.G. Bach

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult

Love Song from the Grave: Balthazzarini, Henry III, and N.G. Bach

November 4, 2015 — 6 Comments

Devil’s D-Day: The Possession Plague of Morzine

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Devil’s D-Day: The Possession Plague of Morzine

May 6, 2015 — 0 Comments

A Plethora of Witches: Rinaldo des Trois-Echelles du Mayne

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

A Plethora of Witches: Rinaldo des Trois-Echelles du Mayne

April 29, 2015 — 2 Comments

Honoré Mirabel’s Gold-Sniffing Ghost: Salvage Law of the Dead

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Honoré Mirabel’s Gold-Sniffing Ghost: Salvage Law of the Dead

February 22, 2015 — 2 Comments

The Little Red Man of the Tuileries: A Prophetic Parisian Imp

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Little Red Man of the Tuileries: A Prophetic Parisian Imp

August 7, 2014 — 0 Comments

Getting Your Gaul: A Merovingian Monster and the Founding of France

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Getting Your Gaul: A Merovingian Monster and the Founding of France

August 28, 2013 — 0 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

Beauty and the Bestiary: Tarasca and the Fear of the Tamed Male

Anthropology, Mythology

Beauty and the Bestiary: Tarasca and the Fear of the Tamed Male

November 15, 2012 — 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