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 | Aug 26, 2018 | Monster Meet
I love old maps. Maps used to be full of monster drawings, especially pre-17th century ones created for the upper class. Cartographers weren’t just trying to dazzle people–they were trying to educate them, and illustrated creatures based on real sailors’...
by J.M. Plumbley | Jul 27, 2018 | Monster Meet
I love graveyards. They are heightened places where where you feel both the weight of the past and future: full of history, and a reminder of what’s to come. Of course, they are also ripe for monsters. My favorites are ones like the Weeping Woman of Parkersburg, West...
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