by J.M. Plumbley | Feb 19, 2019 | Monster Meet
The venerable Paul Karle recently did me the service of sharing a quote from Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit: “Serial murder may, in fact, be a much older phenomenon than we realize. The stories and legends that have filtered down about...
by J.M. Plumbley | Jan 21, 2019 | Monster Meet
This will by Monster Meet’s first post on a solidly Japanese monster, and I have to say: I have no idea how I haven’t written about one until now. I love old Japanese monster mythology for the same reason that I love old Fae mythology: it is both magical and...
by J.M. Plumbley | Dec 22, 2018 | Monster Meet
Happy holidays, everyone! To celebrate the season, let’s talk about a flesh-eating scarecrow that sometimes maybe hangs around with Santa Claus. Hans von Trotha (who now is better known as Hans Trapp) was a real 15th-century figure who lived on the woodland border...
by J.M. Plumbley | Nov 23, 2018 | Monster Meet
Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers (and to anyone else who enjoys eating a lot and being appreciative generally)! For many of us, Thanksgiving is a time when we visit family and reminisce about decades past. Sometimes we even become something of the selves that...
by J.M. Plumbley | Oct 24, 2018 | Monster Meet
Happy (almost) Halloween! To best illustrate the topic of today’s post (and in the spirit of the season), let’s start off today’s post with. . . A spooky story Late one fall night in Norway, some 300 years ago, a man (let’s call him Daniel) decided to take a shortcut...
by J.M. Plumbley | Sep 24, 2018 | Monster Meet
This full moon we’re going to Loveland, Ohio, a residential town cut in two by the Little Miami River. Loveland gets muggy in the summer and cold in the winter, and is home to lots of bridges, trails, and (according to some) foggy nights full of waist-high Frogmen. An...
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