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

I’m just saying.

“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 my website. You may enjoy it. It shows off my softer, caring, gentle side.”

For more of Phil’s work check his previous guest posts to TBM here and here.

Anyone hoping for a sequel to Where the Wild Things Are might want to prepare themselves for bad news, though. ;p

Sam

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!

A Letter for Florence starts here. If, while more episodes are forthcoming, you’d like to check out Postcards from Cosmo, they start here.

And here (with thanks to The Kraken) is another Door – a short piece of animation written and narrated by one of my absolute favourite authors in the world, Russell Hoban.

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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, Roger McGough, Ogden Nash and J.R.R. Tolkein. Coupled with equally odd and utterly disturbing imagery from Charles Fuge. . . just like this:

This..

And this guy..

  ..who reminds me of this guy:

Apart from thinking how much this would have fascinated me and scared the living daylights out of me as a kid, it also makes me a little sad.

Sad because I once had my own childhood monster book which freaked me out and i’d LOVE to discover it now. But I presume it was given away without my knowledge. I remember so vividly picking it out from the mobile, fold-away, shiny silver bookcases in my primary school assembly hall, when the book fair came to visit. It was a collection of short monster stories (that’s short stories about monsters, not stories about short monsters!). They were all fantastic but the one that scared me the most, above all others, was about a seaweed-covered monster who lived under an up-turned boat on a pebble strewn beach.

Does anyone else remember this book?

What books from your childhood used to really scare you?

Have you recently found a book from your past that brought back strange memories?

Do you have a book at home now which totally creeps you out?

Sleep tight

____

Monstrosities

Charles Fuge

9780099673309

(1989)

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?