Apr 14 2013
Greetings, my new neighbor. I’m the lonely, creepy old man who lives in the dark castle at the end of your road. I like to meet all my new neighbors. . . after sundown. You’re really going to like it here. Nice schools, good parks, lots of adequate streetlights. Just bunches of swell people in …
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Feb 11 2013
Happy Valentine’s Week! Want to give your date your heart (instead of someone else’s)? Tell your loved ones how much they mean to you with these official SML Monster Valentine’s Day cards.
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May 29 2012
Steve Unger is a world traveler, accomplished author, and historian of Dracula – both the fictional character and the historical figure on which the legend is based. His book, “In the Footsteps of Dracula,” is a travel guide and photo memoir chronicling the author’s journeys in England and Romania to each spot visited in Bram …
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May 25 2012
In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey and Travel Guide. 2nd Edition. Steven P. Unger. New York: World Audience, Inc., 2010. 273 pages. So…it’s a vampire book? Close, it’s a book about a vampire book. Scratch that – a book about the vampire book. Twilight can suck it. Pun intended. More than just an …
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Jan 24 2012
As historical evidence has shown, some of the most threatening, foul, and evil monsters that have ever lived, have met Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Why? What’s the draw? Why was a popular comedy duo poised to be the apple to so many a monsters’ eye? Could it be the allure of meeting celebrities? Then …
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Apr 16 2011
Someone asked me the other day if monsters liked Muenster cheese. “Is that too obvious?” he asked. Well, the answer seemed as obvious to me as the question: of course monsters like Muenster cheese! Who doesn’t like cheese? But then I started to ask around the office a little, and it turns out that cheese …
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Mar 23 2011
Since 1978, vampires and other creatures of the night have had a safe and effective source for something that had previously only ever been acquired through sucking the life force out of their victims: vitamin D. With a propensity for photodermatosis (see previous post, “Hanging Out in the Dark”), vampires and the like have trouble …
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Nov 17 2010
Much like video game players or motorists who place point values on hitting people in the street, monsters get points for kidnapping women. Women are fun to chase – even your average bar-going man agrees – the good ones put up a good fight when they’re caught, and kidnapped women always make the 12:00 news. …
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Nov 01 2010
Many types of monsters are sensitive to sunlight. In fact, recent scientific studies have shown that Dracula himself, and all his vampire descendants, carry the gene responsible for severe photodermatosis, the sunlight disease. Alternately, other monsters’ sensitivity was developed over time, from lack of regular light exposure. Many monsters have physical abnormalities and malformations that …
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