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Celebrate Stoker's 165th Birthday With These Reads 9 Nov 2012 | 01:37 am
Google is celebrating Bram Stoker's 165th birthday with a doodle featuring the infamous count and his brides facing off against Harker and his band of merry vampire-hunters. Stoker is credited with cr...
My Life in Horror Gifs 29 Oct 2012 | 06:57 pm
The everday horror of my life presented in horror gifs. When I give my students a pop quiz When I realize I brought the wrong handouts to class. When I tell my students about the final exam. What ...
A Visit to Mockingbird Lane 29 Oct 2012 | 02:14 am
This update of the 1960's show The Munsters revisits the monstrous clan of Lily, Herman, Eddie, Marilyn and Grandpa as they move into the creepy "hobo-murder house" on a sunny street in quiet middle A...
It's Alive! 31 Aug 2012 | 02:52 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Apologies, everyone, for the lack of action on this blog for the last month. I’m engaged in a large writing project that's eating up most of my i...
Happy Thanksgiving! The Hunger Games and the Cornucopia of Death 25 Nov 2011 | 05:22 pm
Happy Turkey Day from Monster Land! I'll leave you today with some musings on the The Hunger Games whose horrific re-interpretation of the cornucopia puts new twist on our ages-old horn of plenty. T...
Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment: Call for Papers 22 Nov 2011 | 03:16 pm
A shout out to all my academic peeps in Monsterland. This conference in Edinburgh, UK is calling for papers on monsters of all kinds, but especially medical freaks and how literature constructs the mo...
The Victorian-Monster Art of Dan Hillier 22 Nov 2011 | 02:55 pm
I am head over heels for these art prints by Dan Hillier . They are the perfect mix of Victorian style etchings showing polite scenes of fashionable men and women and the grotesque.I love how the seem...
Monsters in the Mirror: Origins of the Zombie 22 Nov 2011 | 02:49 pm
I was thinking on my favorite subject—monsters—when I realized that these creatures mostly rise out of folklore, find their way into literature then blossom onto both the big and small screen. This sh...
Bloody Dames: Carrie Edition 16 Jul 2011 | 10:24 am
Carrie (1976) Sissy Spacek The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) Emily Bergl Carrie (TV 2002) Angela Bettis
Book Review: Shock Value by Jason Zinoman 15 Jul 2011 | 04:20 pm
So I’m dusting off the cobwebs on this blog to bring you a book review of Jason Zinoman’s book Shock Value out now, and if you’re reading this why haven’t you bought it? I received a copy from the pub...
