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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

Eternal Love and Other Supernatural Phenomena

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Eternal Love and Other Supernatural Phenomena

December 28, 2016 — 0 Comments

Loving and Leaving with Caisho Burroughs and his Phantom Mistress

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Loving and Leaving with Caisho Burroughs and his Phantom Mistress

May 27, 2016 — 1 Comment

Haunted Homewrecking with Scotland’s Pearlin’ Jean

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Haunted Homewrecking with Scotland’s Pearlin’ Jean

January 9, 2016 — 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

The Ghost of Alaska’s Baranoff Castle: Love’s Labor Lost

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters

The Ghost of Alaska’s Baranoff Castle: Love’s Labor Lost

October 21, 2015 — 1 Comment

Amazon Speed Dating: Looking for Love in Scythia

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Amazon Speed Dating: Looking for Love in Scythia

October 21, 2014 — 2 Comments

Beauty is Only Skin Deep: Fear and Loathing on Valentine’s Day

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Beauty is Only Skin Deep: Fear and Loathing on Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2014 — 1 Comment

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

“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