language The origins of the word "monster" Gareth Branwyn

Monsters A brief history of gargoyles Gareth Branwyn

art 31 Visions of Hell, Satan, and Demons, according to a 1775 book obsessed with genitals Thom Dunn

Monsters Odd sea creatures moving in formation Kevin Reome

machine learning Create your own fully-rendered CGI fantasy monsters with Google AI Thom Dunn

Weird Amazing photo of a "sea monster" taken from a plane David Pescovitz

Monsters The Creature from the Sandpits, a teenage prank that's endured for 60 years David Pescovitz

happy mutants Revealing the cover of "Poesy the Monster Slayer," my first-ever picture book! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Occult Defence Agency Budgeting Simulator: a text adventure that pits monster-slaying against austerity Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Brian Reedy's pop-culture, rice-paper linocuts Cory Doctorow

fashion The 'Kaiju Cage-Match' shirt shows smackdown of strange creatures Rusty Blazenhoff

Weird Photo of freaky monster terrorizing Santa Fe, Argentina David Pescovitz

robotics Super Monster Wolf protects crops in Japan David Pescovitz

Monsters Video compares size of movie monsters Mark Frauenfelder

News 5 women sue Monster Energy over abusive and discriminatory culture Xeni Jardin

crime Mladic the genocide: a moment of silence for the Balkans' lost lives, honor and credibility Jasmina Tesanovic

art Gorgeous "Monster Zen" book of Japanese-styled monsters with haiku Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Monster Scouts: go camping with an imaginary cryptid scout troop from the 1910s! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants My Favorite Thing is Monsters: a haunting diary of a young girl as a dazzling graphic novel Cory Doctorow

Monsters My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, a graphic diary Jason Weisberger