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 | 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 | 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 Paul Karle | Jun 28, 2018 | Monster Meet
Hey monster lovers! This month features a guest post by the esteemed Paul Karle, who is covering for me while I am away at the Odyssey Writing Workshop. In it, he covers a bit of a different kind of monster–a man who was depressingly real. I hope you enjoy;...
by J.M. Plumbley | May 29, 2018 | Monster Meet
When I was about 5 years old, my family squeezed into a minivan and took a trip through the English countryside. I have a lot of scattered memories from that vacation, among them mist, cobblestones, and seeing this picture on the back of some tourism brochure and...
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