Here's the Thing The Monster in My Belly By Rob Rich • November 14th, 2022 Rob talks about the unpleasant stomach troubles he’s had to deal with for the past several years, all thanks to some bad seafood.
Forms in Light Monstrous Architecture By Justin Reeve • November 11th, 2022 Neoclassicism never actually had any positive connotations and became increasingly sinister over time, going from somewhat dodgy to entirely despicable.
Always Autumn There are Decapitations By Autumn Wright • November 10th, 2022 Too Many Cooks is at once an absurdist comedy sketch and a critical cautionary tale, full of pastiche referents like “relics of a time that we long for but shouldn’t return to.”
Casting Deep Meteo Barry Windsor-Smith’s Taxonomy of Monsters By Levi Rubeck • November 9th, 2022 Barry Windsor-Smith is a veteran of superhero comics, and as such, knows that you can’t title a book Monsters without a menagerie of such.
Area of Effect Contested Landscapes By Jay Castello • November 8th, 2022 Horror is perhaps the genre where contested space is most easily found lurking.
Another Look Evil in Residence By Yussef Cole • November 7th, 2022 Resident Evil is a Hellraiser puzzle box; an invitation to partake, to play along, only to realize (too late) that the controller itself is a portal through which the game itself can reach out and draw its horrifying tithe.
Rookie of the Year Introducing “Pocket Monsters” By Matt Marrone • November 4th, 2022 Pokémon is a portmanteau. It means pocket monsters.
Interlinked Half-Humans and Half-Lives By Phoenix Simms • November 3rd, 2022 At the throbbing heart of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a fear of different beings mixing to create a monstrous one.
Collision Detection The Boomer Death Cult of Possum Springs By Ben Sailer • November 2nd, 2022 As the Boomer death cult in Night In The Woods serves to remind us, sometimes the scariest monsters are the ones that could actually exist.
Here Be Monsters On Being Chased By Emma Kostopolus • October 31st, 2022 These monsters are more than bundles of code: they are a concrete reminder of the lack of control that we have over our own lives.
