by J.M. Plumbley | Feb 9, 2020 | Monster Meet
It was October 1966, around 9:45 p.m. Two boys–Martin Munov and James Yanchitis–were walking home along a chain link fence below the elevated New Jersey Turnpike. On the other side of the fence lay some shrub brush and a steep, nigh insurmountable slope up...
by J.M. Plumbley | Jan 10, 2020 | Monster Meet
It’s a new decade, everybody! This is the time when everyone looks at how much has happened over the past few years and makes guesses about what will happen next. We live in an era of constant and dramatic change; as interesting as that can be, being stuck in such...
by J.M. Plumbley | Dec 12, 2019 | Monster Meet
In the spirit of the holidays, let’s talk about a monster that can leave you looking like Jack Torrance at the end of The Shining! Yuki Onna (which translates to “Snow Woman”) is a Japanese yokai that borders on the edge of being...
by J.M. Plumbley | Nov 12, 2019 | Monster Meet
About an hour outside of Prague, alone among thick forest, swamps, and mountains, there sits a 13th-century castle atop a sheer limestone cliff. The castle Houska (Hoe-skuh) has no outward-facing fortifications, and is guarded only by a lone statue of the saint...
by J.M. Plumbley | Oct 13, 2019 | Monster Meet
Happy (almost) Halloween! In honor of my favorite holiday, we’re going to cover a more traditional monster this month: a good old-fashioned baby-eating hag. Normally I shy away from doing monstrous witches (as I’ve noted on this blog before, the misogyny...
by J.M. Plumbley | Sep 14, 2019 | Monster Meet
It was August, 1966. In an unassuming house at 30 East Drive, Pontefract, England, Sarah Scholes was watching her 15-year old grandson Philip Pritchard while his parents and sister were away for the holiday week. Though the weather was hot, the house was curiously...
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