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Jinn and Tonic

I’ve written about jinn before, but something I don’t think I’ve touched on is the different varieties among them. As with a lot of attempts to categorize mythical beings, there’s no real consensus on this. I just finished G. Willow … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Cartoons, Catherynne M. Valente, Celtic, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Hinduism, Islam, Kirby, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games | Tagged abu tha'labah al-khushani, aladdin, alawi, alif the unseen, angels, arabian nights, bahamut, druze, dungeons and dragons, efreeti, fairies, g. willow wilson, ghouls, gustave flaubert, hadith, hinn, iblis, ifrit, jinn, king solomon, king vikramaditya, kirby's dream land 2, marids, muhammad, nasnas, night of the living dead, queen of sheba, quran, shaitan, shiqq, sila, succubus, the fisherman and the jinni, the temptation of saint anthony, vampires, vetala, zombies |

Puppets Gonna Fuck You Up

Here are our latest Halloween-related viewings. Two of them involve puppets! Eli Roth’s History of Horror – I can’t say I’ve ever been fond of Roth as a filmmaker, but he does have a lot of knowledge on the subject, … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Authors, Egyptian, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, Kane Chronicles, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Rick Riordan, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged alf, dan brown, david landis, demonic possession, demons, e.l. james, eli roth, eli roth's history of horror, fifty shades of grey, george romero, ghosts, ghouls, paul fusco, pinhead, puppet master, puppets, rue mcclanahan, shabti, stephenie meyer, the wickedest witch, twilight, vampires, werewolves, witches, zombies |

Rakkhosh and Ruin

One type of being that’s quite significant in Sayantani DasGupta’s The Serpent’s Secret is the Rakkhosh, a sort of human-eating monster that usually speaks in rhyme. The book also associates them with black holes, presumably an invention of DasGupta’s, although … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Hinduism, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Video Games | Tagged asuras, bhima, brahma, demons, devas, dungeons and dragons, ghosts, ghouls, giants, jack and the beanstalk, kamsa, khokkosh, krishna, ogres, putana, rakkhosh, rakshasa, rakshasi, sayantani dasgupta, the serpent's secret, vampires, vishnu |

I’m Friends with the Monster

Gil’s All Fright Diner, by A. Lee Martinez – I’d read his Divine Misfortune and thought it was pretty good, so I decided to check out his first novel. It’s a fantasy horror comedy, basically, featuring two good old boys … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Monsters | Tagged a. lee martinez, chloe jacobs, demons, ghouls, gil's all fright diner, goblins, greta and the goblin king, vampires, werewolves, zombies |