Werewolves
Today’s guest is John Kachuba, award-winning author and creative writing instructor at Ohio University. His non-fiction book Shapeshifters: A History, was a 2020 Finalist for the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award.
“Crime Scene”, by Mercedes Aguirre Castro
For one of our first posts, we are very pleased to present this short story by scholar and fiction author Mercedes Aguirre Castro. The story, a modern re-working of a three-thousand-year-old tale, first appeared in its original Spanish as “La escena del crimen” in her edited book Tras las huellas de los mitos: voces femeninas… Read more “Crime Scene”, by Mercedes Aguirre Castro
Welcome!
Welcome to The Ancient Monsters Blog! What are we all about? Basically, we’re here to discuss any aspect of monsters and monstrosity from the ancient world—from anywhere around the globe, starting with the earliest mentions of monsters and continuing down through history into at least the first millennium CE, and sometimes even beyond. Isn’t that… Read more Welcome!