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A unique blend of memoir, research, and cultural criticism, this is a searing and incisive examination into how we tell stories about mental illness, how that affects how we treat it, and how those with mental illness can begin to take control of their own stories through fantasy and fiction.

Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction.

What is it about monsters that so terrifies us? Perhaps it's their supernatural nature? Their ability to disappear into the shadows and reappear without warning? Whatever the reason, tales of monsters have been with us since the dawn of time and show no sign of abating. In The Big Book of Monsters Vol I, Josh Nanocchio, acclaimed host of the popular YouTube channel What Lurks Beneath, has collected some of the most chilling, hair-raising, and downright unbelievable accounts of monster sightings from around the world.

Canada is the second largest country in the world—a land of seemingly endless coastlines, vast prairies, jagged mountains, and deep boreal forests. Despite the vastness of its territory, 90% of Canadians live within 150 miles of the US border leaving room for all manner of strange beings to...

The Monster at the end of this book storytelling

A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist's work from their biography. What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NATIONAL BESTSELLER A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and...

In 1826, French playwrights Jean-Toussaint Merle and Antony Béraud cowrote the play Le monstre et le magicien as a stage adaptation of British author Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. This English translation by British playwright John Kerr, called The Monster and Magician: Or the Fate of Frankenstein, premiered four months later on October 2 at the West London Theatre. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Frankenstein: ToddHW Antonio, his Son: Inkell Holbien: Alan Mapstone Pietro: Greg Giordano Litolff: Beeswaxcandle Gontram: Craig Franklin Jansken: Jon Hunter Petrusco: Larry Wilson Zomar: ...

The Monsters and the Critics, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

The tales of Zeus, Hercules, and Medusa can seem confusing and disconnected from modern life. Without a guide, they remain an untapped source of wisdom, leaving you with the sense you’re missing something profound.

Can I get a “ramen” from the congregation?! Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying...

Join any Pride march and you are likely to see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads trailing sequins, drag queens wearing mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. But these are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. Queer as Folklore is an exhilarating journey across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy.

In 2012, an incredible phenomenon began to occur. Internet users, in earnest, began reporting frightening encounters with emaciated, pale, hairless humanoids that, for the most part, crawled on all fours. Internet users attempted to equate these entities with characters of Native American mythology, oblivious to the fact that the humanoids in these encounters bore a resemblance to the fictional Rake. Many witnesses suggested that they were "Skinwalkers," medicine men or witches of traditional Navajo lore who possess the ability to transform into animals.

You already know Mr. Darcy—at least you think you do! The romantic hero of Pride and Prejudice, Darcy initially insults and ignores the witty heroine but eventually succumbs to her charms. It’s a classic enemies-to-lovers plot and one that has profoundly influenced our cultural ideas about courtship. But what if this classic isn’t just a grand romance but a horror novel about how scary love and marriage can be for women? In The Darcy Myth, literature scholar Rachel Feder unpacks Austen’s Gothic influences and how they have led us to a romantic ideal that is halfway to being a monster story.

Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity. Continuing his interest in the history of emotion, this book explores how fear has been shaped into images of monsters and monstrosity.

From the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE - the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres. It is rivaled only by tragedy, which arose a bit more than two centuries later, as the most respected, the most influential, and, from a slightly different vantage point, the most prestigious mode of addressing the human condition in literary terms. The major epics are the big boys, the works that, from the very outset, everyone had heard of and everyone knew, at least by reputation.

A vivid thrill-tale of the black altar on the hill-top, and the dark doom that hung over two lovers like a living horror! - Summary by Weird Tales, May 1937

A curse has plagued the Hammand family for thousands of years with Oliver Hammand and his sister Swanhild being the last of the line. What does the curse of the Undying Monster have to do with the hidden room of Oliver's and Swanhild's ancestor, Magnus the Warlock? What secrets are coded on the sacred runes emblazoned on the hilt of a bronze sword hidden within the walls? It is up to occult investigator Luna Bartendale to unravel the dark mysteries of the past and put a stop to the curse once and for all! Woman of weird fiction Jessie Douglas Kerruish takes us on a heart-stopping journey into ...

This podcast is where monster lovers, myth nerds, and high-heat goblins come home. Your time with us is part deep dive, part unhinged comedy hour, and part “did we really just say that out loud?” fandom celebration. Our mission is to hype creators, talk our shit, normalize the fantasies everyone has but pretends they don’t, and build a big, messy, hilarious community where no one gets kink-shamed for wanting an orc, a wolf daddy, or a tentacled himbo to rearrange their chakras.

A fascinating, first of its kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King - all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives. After Caroline Bicks was named the University of...