Christmas. You know how it is. Mandatory family fun. Squabbling over who had the last strawberry creme out of the Quality Street tin, charades, damp Twiglets. Monopoly, cheese football fights, Twister… Why not do something wordily fun this Christmas? WORD & QUESTION!!! This picture was inspired by a very early poem concocted as a result [...]
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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, [...]
The man with no skin.
This is a bit of nonsense I sometimes read out at the end of events. Just a nice thought to be going to bed with… G’night… The Man with No Skin Is glistening red, There’s no skin on his bones There’s no hair on his head. His nails cracked and yellow, His eyeballs stare white. [...]
Three Years of Unusual Words
Ravensbourne School is somewhere in Kent and it’s a great place – I’ve visited four times now. It’s always a fun visit with lots of creativity and a lovely warm welcome. Not only do they invite me to visit, but they also have a WORD OF THE WEEK. And they’ve just posted on their blog a [...]
A Monstrous Merry Christmas!
We’re in the middle of preparing Christmas dinner at the moment, and it’s my turn to stuff the Garglesnark this year so I don’t have much time. I’d love to write a new festive ditty to celebrate the Christmas season, but Gleeg will probably inhale me alive if I don’t get back to the kitchen [...]
A Song About Snow! By Me!
If this works, there should be a little music-player thingy here, through which you can hear a song of mine and even, possibly, download it for free! (It’ll stay free for the first 200 people who download it – so get in there quickly!) It’s a song called ‘Underneath the Snow’ and it’s from a [...]
One From The Vaults
I stumbled across an old notebook at the back of the cave the other day, in which I’d written a few quick stories, poems and book ideas. Most of them weren’t really useful for future projects, but one silly poem was fun to read back – so I thought I’d post it here and give [...]
Twas the Night Before Christmas…
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the cave Not an author was stirring, for none were that brave. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that the Santa-Claws soon would be there. The monsters were nestled all snug in their pits, All hairy, or slimy or covered in zits. [...]
Doom, Doom, Snot, Weeping and Doom
For your further edification I present the following tale of woe. Prepare yourself, gentle reader, for the grisly saga of Alexander Gordon Smith (author of the awesome FURNACE: LOCKDOWN, reviewed here) and his valiant, imaginative yet sadly doomed attempts to rescue us all from captivity. His last words as he disappeared head-first into the bucket [...]
Poetry Challenge – my entry
I was trying to avoid rising to the bait of any poetry challenge. But you can’t stay curmudgeonly forever. So here I am, with my effort. the question I had to answer was ‘Where’s that smell coming from?’, and I had to use the word ‘LUNAR’. I hope you (and the monsters) feel that I [...]
