Hey! As of this post, I’ve been writing Monster of the Week for one year! Pretty nifty. I generally try to balance my monster posts between four categories: mythology and folklore, recent urban legend, gaming, and pop culture. It’s about time for a pop culture post, so I figured I’d write about my favorite monster […]
This is it, guys. Numero uno. The one you’ve all been waiting for. The big kahuna. The big… Foot. No, no, no! Not that big foot. The hairy one — and don’t bring up hobbit feet, I’m talking about the tall, humanoid North American forest dweller that some folks believe is a missing link between humans and our ape-ier […]
This week’s monster is a little different. Normally, I would write about a legend or an enemy from a video game or movie — fiction. The tarantula hawk isn’t like any of them. The tarantula hawk is real. So if creepy crawlies make you squirm — if the greatest consolation in the movie theater is […]
Like the ugly American I am, I first encountered the redcap in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Little did I know that the creature from Professor Lupin’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class is a figure from real-life (or Muggle, depending on how you look at it) British folklore — and a […]
Ah, yes, the wonderful world of Pokémon. A certain app released last month has kicked 90s nostalgia into high gear and made us all hyper-aware of those good ol’ pocket monsters once again. But there has always been a darker side to this world. Like most franchises with any kind of internet fandom, Pokémon has […]