Your Friday monster rec is musical: The prog-metal act Mastodon. Earlier albums featured lyrical obsessions with Moby Dick and Rasputin. While their newest isn’t a concept album, it does feature some creature-y fun. Enjoy the riffing!
Archive for September, 2011
“Creature Lives” by Mastodon
Posted in Friday Monster Rec on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Interview with F. Brett Cox
Posted in Contributor Interviews on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
F. Brett Cox’s fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Century, North Carolina Literary Review, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Postscripts, and Phantom. With Andy Duncan, he co-edited Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (Tor, 2004). A native of North Carolina, Brett is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, and lives in [...]
Interview with Sarah Langan
Posted in Contributor Interviews on September 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sarah Langan is the author of the novels The Keeper and The Missing, and Audrey’s Door. She is currently finishing her fourth book, Empty Houses. Her work has garnered three Bram Stoker Awards, an ALA Award, a New York Times Book Review editor’s pick, a PW favorite book of the year selection, and been optioned [...]
Wildcard: day 6
Posted in Wildcard on September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
–Monster librarian gives a scary book list for kids. Boo! –More for the kids. It’s Scary Monsters for Kids. –Tribute site to local Boston UHF channel 56′s CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE. –Saul Bass style THE THING poster.
Interview with Jeff VanderMeer…er…MORD
Posted in Contributor Interviews on September 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Jeff VanderMeer is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, with novels published in over twenty languages. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s SF Magazine, Black Clock, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, and many anthologies. He reviews books for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and many others. His story “The [...]
Interview with Jeffrey Ford
Posted in Contributor Interviews on September 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels, The Physiognomy, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl In the Glass, The Shadow Year, and the story collections, The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life. His short story “After Moreau,” appears in Creatures. What was the first monster that scared/moved you? [...]
Bigfeet in Calgary?
Posted in Monsters in the news on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, bigfeet in Calgary! Maybe. Banff now has Bigfoot. Lots and lots of Bigfoots, in fact. Yes, it’s an allegation that would have Ripley wondering whether to Believe it or Not, and P.T. Barnum reaching for his cheque book, but the mountains west of Calgary are a hotbed for the huge-footed primates. That’s the assertion [...]
Wildcard: Day 5
Posted in Wildcard on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
–Check out the monster cakes (artist Scott Hove)! –From io9: Giant Jellyfish taking over the seas? –From the archive of the interwebs! Two interviews with Creatures contributor, China Mieville. From (another Creatures contributor) Jeff VanderMeer‘s interview of China: “Our monsters are about themselves, and they can get on with being about all sorts of other stuff [...]
Interview with Christopher Golden
Posted in Contributor Interviews on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
(Christopher Golden is the author of such novels as Of Saints and Shadows, The Myth Hunters, The Boys Are Back in Town, Strangewood and, with Mike Mignola, Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire. His work for teens and young adults includes The Secret Journeys of Jack London, co-authored with Tim Lebbon, and [...]
Tuesday’s Monsters in the News
Posted in Monsters in the news on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
–With a nod to Monster Island News: Documents Show Feds Believed in Yeti: “Newly unearthed State Department documents confirm for the first time Uncle Sam’s belief that the Abominable Snowman roamed the mountains of Nepal in the 1950s, a finding that has shocked federal officials including the archivist who discovered the papers.” –Keep up with [...]
