526. Monsters Like Witnessing what Two Decades of Seeing Dead People does to Your Favorite Child Stars
The House that Ghosts Built: An SML Review of Winchester
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The only thing creepier than movies with possessed kids is a really solid haunted house movie. And the only thing creepier than a haunted house movie is a haunted house movie with possessed kids. You may disagree, but my particular kryptonite…
525. Monsters Like Getting around Customs Issues
Things we’ve tried to get through customs on our way to a relaxing weekend at Monster Island: Cuban cigars Toys made with lead paint Buckets of ants Wormwood Finger sandwiches Machete hands Missile launchers A human-sized jar filled with 100 brains One human brain dived into 100 Mason jars A…
521. Monsters Like Dramatic Family Reunions
Your father died before you were born. Your mother gave you up for adoption. She had many reasons, but what reasons are enough to give up your own child? Your own flesh? Even though you never knew them, your parents’ actions informed your entire life. It wasn’t an entirely miserable…
517. Monsters Like Clean Coal
We keep hearing about clean coal. Is it really a thing? Or is it a myth? Because we would love to ruin your Christmas without getting our hands dirty.
516. Monsters Like Cryostasis
Bears and bats hibernate in the winter. As temperatures cool and snow drifts begin to build, they cozy up with their kin and settle down for the proverbial long winter’s nap. Insects burrow into the ground, content to miss entire seasons—sometimes upwards of a couple decades! Plants of all types…
515. Monsters Like Putting Your Holiday Anxiety in the Form of Song
On the first day of Christmas, the Yule Lads brought to me A raw potato in my right shoe On the second day of Christmas, we left for Stekkjarstaur Two glasses of warm sheep’s milk On the third day of Christmas, we left for Pvoruskleikir Three batter-covered spoons…
514. Monsters Like Keeping Our Secrets
Everyone is entitled to their privacy, right? Everyone is burdened by their past and worthy of a future free of that crushing weight. Correct? Ghouls of all types prefer to keep our pasts close to the vest. We shy away from the glass houses of metaphor and the illumination of…
