Comics "The Nice House on the Lake" is a cozy riff on cosmic horror Thom Dunn

Cryptozoology Wild video of lake monster emerging from the water during golf championship David Pescovitz

Weird Video of the new "Penobscot River Monster" in Maine David Pescovitz

books Take a creepy cross country roadtrip with The United States of Cryptids Thom Dunn

tabloids Joe Biden's "dementia" and Ghislaine Maxwell's "shocking photos' in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

racism Trump administration bans diversity training for federal workers, calling it "Anti-American" Thom Dunn

Dungeons & Dragons What's new in tabletop gaming (Halloween edition) Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Top Secret: New World Order: Merle M. Rasmussen reboots his 1980 RPG classic Jayson Elliot

books Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections Bob Knetzger

Games Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space Gareth Branwyn

family Princes of the Apocalypse is D&D's killer app Jason Louv

offworld The clone that wasn't Leigh Alexander

A visit to the basement where Dungeons & Dragons was born Ethan Gilsdorf

Games At 40 Years Old, Dungeons & Dragons Still Matters Ethan Gilsdorf