by J.M. Plumbley | Aug 15, 2019 | Monster Meet
Did you know that Stephen King himself squirmed when he saw the Pale Man scene in Pan’s Labryrinth? Hard same, Steve. When I first saw that movie, that scene disturbed me so much that it came back around and left me grinning ear to ear. The Pale Man is geniusly...
by J.M. Plumbley | May 18, 2019 | Monster Meet
The Santa Lucia Mountains. The Santa Lucia mountain range sprawls for 105 miles down the coast of central California, a great, towering expanse of tree and rock that proved impassable for early Spanish explorers. Ocean spray mists the west side of the range, making it...
by J.M. Plumbley | Apr 19, 2019 | Monster Meet
Monster Meet research can be a mixed bag. Sometimes I get caught on something specific and have to really dig deep to find enough content for a single post. Other times, like this month, I start out with an innocent Google query (“nun ghost”), and end up down a rabbit...
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...
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