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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Dug For You
Another year has passed since I last made some music recommendations. So here goes… That people are out there tracking down strange, amazing, otherwise-impossible-to-find things and showing them to the world is probably what I love most about living in the internet age. But what was new in 2011 for me was that much of [...]
Ta-Da!
At last! I’ve finally got around to starting my own blog: www.davidmelling.co.uk/blog Which means as well as posting stuff like this mad eye-balled idiot here on Trapped By Monsters… I might post stuff like this little chap… [...]
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, [...]
Welcome to Gotham City
Just a quick post and a link from me today, aimed at fans of the DC Comics character, Batman. I stumbled upon this great blog post about Batman’s home city, Gotham, which even includes a map showing all the major locations from the comic. Want to know how to get from Arkham Asylyum to Crime [...]
DNBRD
Quick post about something rather splendid I discovered recently: this Saturday, 6th August 2011, is Do Nothing But Read Day! If you click on the link to the DNBRD website you’ll get the idea, but the admirably simple rules of the day are as follows: You have to read. This can be whatever format you [...]
Run, don’t walk, from…. the MONSTERS FROM THE MORGUE!
Heyho, Guest blogger Laura here once more to share some monsterlicious news. For those of you who like monsters, movies and comics (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?) this is the stuff for you! You may recall my rather swift last post which mentioned my mental busyness on ‘super fun top secret project’ ???? No? [...]
Blood Gushing Nubs
It’s time to announce the winner of the Spinechills / Crawlers Competition, the horror writing contest that’s been running this past month or so based on the vile, mind-controlling creatures from my book CRAWLERS. Picking a winner was a nightmare. My congratulations and best wishes to runners-up Ajay, Veronica and Ecner for their bloodcurdling and [...]
Story Writing Competition – Winner
Each year, I run a spooky story writing competition on my website, and this year’s contest attracted over 150 entries – the highest number ever! The standard of writing – from creepy characters to petrifying plots – was incredible, and I’d like to thank everyone who entered. However, there can only be one winner, and [...]
Happy Birthday MOSTLY BOOKS!
I’m delighted to announce the birthday of one of my local independent bookshop Mostly Books. Five years ago yesterday (1st July), they set up shop here in Abingdon and they’ve been nothing short of an inspiration to all book lovers. They were quickly recognised for their talent by winning the New Independent Bookshop of the [...]
