Category Archives: Article

Blobs, Swamp Muck and Amorphous Things That Go Splat! in the Night

Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 by Robert Hood

An Essay on a Globular Sub-genre by Robert Hood Given that violation of physical norms (being giant-sized, three-headed, lizard-scaled, part-snake/bat/bear/lion/dragon/Bobo-the-Clown, you name it) is one of the defining attributes of a monster, it’s not surprising that some of the most … Continue reading →

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Early Vampire Cinema 1916 to 1974: Part 2

Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Robert Hood

Continued from Early Vampire Cinema 1916 to 1974: Part 1 Part 2: From Lugosi to Lee If Dracula dominated popular imagination as the defining representative of vampire kind up until recent times, it was Hungarian actor Béla Lugosi whose performance … Continue reading →

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Early Vampire Cinema 1916 to 1974: Part 1

Posted on Sunday, August 8, 2010 by Robert Hood

The following two-part article was written for Mark Deniz’s excellent Vampire Awareness Month, which is still running on his blog. Go there to check out a plethora of top-notch writings on the subject of vampires, ranging from reviews of significant … Continue reading →

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Infestation by Giant Insects!

Posted on Thursday, July 2, 2009 by Robert Hood

The full title of this Modern Mechanics article from December 1930 read “Will Monster Insects Rule the World?” Though offered here as a mere speculative possibility, the idea that giant insects will eventually dominate life on Earth is one that … Continue reading →

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He Whose Limbs Shatter Mountains, Part 2

Posted on Sunday, April 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

I was in Sydney’s Chinatown recently, negotiating a tiresome crowd of zombies, when I bumped into a tall, shuffling figure wearing a trenchcoat, scalf and hat, even though it wasn’t all that cold. It was only as I apologised and … Continue reading →

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He Whose Limbs Shatter Mountains, Part 1

Posted on Sunday, April 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

As comic giant monsters go, Fin Fang Foom is one of the green-blooded aristocrats. Ranging in size somewhere between 32 feet and 100 feet (though he has been known to be reductive enough to sit in a park playing chess … Continue reading →

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