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Understanding Misunderstood Monsters

Have you been attending Frankenstein’s Support Group for Misunderstood Monsters? If not, there's no better time to join. The group meets right here every other Thursday…and here's a guide to some of the monstrous misfits who you'll see sitting next to you.

Posted by Jadzia Axelrod

Something Wicked, Something Holy: Halloween Deities

Halloween is that most American of holidays: a mish-mash of old pagan religion, medieval customs and cavalcades of sugar. While no figure has come to symbolize Halloween the same way Santa embodies Christmas, that doesn’t mean people haven’t tried. Here’s some of our favorite gods and monsters who put the “Hallowed” in Halloween!

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What If Your Favorite Movie Characters Crossed Paths?

Cinemaps by Andrew DeGraff and A.D. Jameson diagrams the paths characters take in popular films, as if they were following a map. But roads on a map often intersect, so it's hard not to imagine what these cinematic crossroads might look like. Here our some of our favorite movie and television characters, and how their lives might be different if they crossed paths.

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How to Modify Your Bike to Accommodate an Alien

This holiday season, many people are going to find themselves in the same quandary: how you adjust your bike so your friendly extra-terrestrial can travel with you? Sure, Eliott in E.T. made it look easy. But not every alien can safely fit into a standard bicycle basket. Here’s a how-to guide to help with transporting even the most unusual off-worlder.

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Frankenstein’s Support Group for Misunderstood Monsters: Chapter 5

Last time: Dracula reflects.

Next time: Frankenstein's neighborhood.

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Frankenstein’s Support Group for Misunderstood Monsters: Chapter 4