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The Devil’s Music

Even those on the Dark Side have to kick back and relax sometimes.

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If you go down to the woods today…

…don’t snap any twigs or pull the leaves off the trees. They hate that. No really, they HATE that. I’m just saying.

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AUNTIE BACTERIAL

With a pungent mix of delight and disgust we welcome back to the caves ace illustrator Phil Harvey, and this: “I promised to send you a monster,” says Phil, “and I keep my promises. Here is Auntie Bacterial! Minging!” We can only agree. “Also” (Phil continues) “here is a link to the children’s section of [...]

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On Being Inappropriate

Moving (gratefully) to cojones of a metaphorical nature, I’m enormously inspired by this awesome interview with Maurice Sendak, which I caught last week on Boing Boing. Anyone hoping for a sequel to Where the Wild Things Are might want to prepare themselves for bad news, though. ;p Sam

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

If you’d like to know how to look this good…and more Goblin advice on preparing for a night out partying then go to my blog here: www.davidmelling.co.uk/blog Enjoy!

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Happy Christmas!

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Open Doors

Barnaby Richards has just started a new weekly webcomic. The site is called anopendoorquietly. If the new project turns out to be even a quarter as wonderful as his weekly Postcards from Cosmo were, here on Trapped By Monsters, then the world is in for a treat. A Letter for Florence starts here. If, while [...]

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A Heavy Head

Sometimes we do silly things and must suffer the consequences.

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I am Boj

Hello! Guest Blogger Laura here, bringing you another snippet of Monsterliciousness! My partner in crime Christian recently found this poetry book from his childhood: Apparently it used to completely horrify him. Quite right too! Honestly, it’s scaring me a little even now. This is down to terrifically terrifying writing from poets such as Ted Hughes, [...]

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THE TOTALLY TERRIFYING THREE!

Look out for my STONKING new picture book and tell your CHUMS to SKIDADDLE down to your local bookshop and get one! (Well, there’s three words I’m not sure I’ve ever used before – strange I should do so now – can you guess what they are?

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