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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

If It Weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, We’d Still be Eating Frozen Radio Dinners

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

If It Weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, We’d Still be Eating Frozen Radio Dinners

June 6, 2017 — 0 Comments

The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia

Anthropology, Folklore, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

The Ecstasy of Error: Green Cards in Magonia

May 25, 2017 — 1 Comment

EsoterX: Podcasts are the Retina of the Mind’s Eye

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

EsoterX: Podcasts are the Retina of the Mind’s Eye

January 30, 2017 — 0 Comments

Statutory Murder: The Trial of Theagenes of Thasos

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Statutory Murder: The Trial of Theagenes of Thasos

January 25, 2017 — 1 Comment

EsoterX: It’s Not True I Had Nothing On, I Had the Radio On

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

EsoterX: It’s Not True I Had Nothing On, I Had the Radio On

October 23, 2016 — 0 Comments

The Monster of Glamis Castle: Stay Safe, Don’t be an Earl

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Monster of Glamis Castle: Stay Safe, Don’t be an Earl

May 6, 2016 — 0 Comments

Extraterrestrial Exceptionalism: Alien Intervention and the Social Contract

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Extraterrestrial Exceptionalism: Alien Intervention and the Social Contract

April 14, 2016 — 2 Comments

Invisible History: Strange Phenomena and Historiography

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Invisible History: Strange Phenomena and Historiography

April 9, 2016 — 1 Comment

The Age of Doubt: Anomalies, Entertainment, and Wonder

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

The Age of Doubt: Anomalies, Entertainment, and Wonder

March 7, 2016 — 4 Comments

Stupid Human Tricks: You’re Different, and I can Tell by Your Uniform

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Stupid Human Tricks: You’re Different, and I can Tell by Your Uniform

January 22, 2016 — 4 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