They’ve created a monster! Actually a lot more than one. Almost 90 monsters made their way to the La Jolla Elementary School campus this week, culminating a month-long project between La Jolla ...

If that isn't at the heart of a basic psych eval, I'm burning my Ph.D. in Phonus Balonus studies. The woman: "Do you think everything that happens, happens around you?" That's an object permanence ...

Monsters are blurry beings—out-of-focus, liminal creatures between two categories. Bigfoot is man and ape, a category-­breaking bipedal primate. Werewolves are shape-shifters between humans and wolves ...

Ed Edmunds has been scaring people since he was a teenager. He parlayed his interest in science fiction and his artistic skills into a mask-making business before he graduated high school, which led ...

Cover of Claire Dederer’s Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (cover photograph by Gjon Mili, cover design by Kelly Blair; image courtesy Penguin Random House) Claire Dederer’s Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (Knopf ...

Jared is a writer, editor, and Communications Studies graduate who loves popular nerd culture (almost anything to do with Marvel, DC, Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings) and the interactive ...