453. Monsters Like Bringing People Together

In a world divided by partisan politics, reverse psychology, in-fighting, money laundering, adultery, back door deals, and the broken American dream, what better way is there to bring a group of select outcasts and intellectuals together than in order to save the nation’s capital from brain-eating, head-exploding insects from outer…

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452. Monsters Like Assaulting Your Olfactory Senses

They’re terrifying. They’re stomach turning, they’re so disgusting. They’re deadly contagious. Some are just plain deadly. But the one thing you always forget about monsters, zombies, woods-bound ax murderers, hell spawn, sewer creatures, and the like: They smell rank. We’re talking week-old-feces, roadkill skunks, B.O.-miasma, stomach-bile-in-the-sun rank. Run, little ones.…

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450. Monsters Like Island Gigantism

The cyclops as an example of island gigantism.

Komodo dragons. The now-extinct moa bird. Real rodents of unusual size. The giant cyclops Polyphemus. Each of these anxiety sweat-inducing creatures is the monstrous result of one of nature’s greatest processes: island gigantism. When animals and the children of ancient gods are segregated onto islands away from predators and competitive…

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