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Mythological Figures: Charles Vane

Oct 19

Join Mythological Figures and sail back in time to the Golden Age of Piracy as we assess the freebooter Charles Vane!

Epic Monsters: Jörmungandr

Oct 12

Epic Monsters is spanning the world today, stretching all the way to the Norse epics for one last post in this little mini-series of builds to consider that serpent to end all serpents Jörmungandr!

Mythological Figures: Hel

Oct 05

No pantheon is complete without someone to rule over the afterlife and today’s entry in Mythological Figures is one of the most eponymously named gods to do so: Hel!

Epic Monsters: Odin

Sep 28

Alright folks we’re doing it. We’re going there. It’s happening. Epic Monsters is finally tackling a subject you’ve been asking for since the column started. It’s time for old one-eye, the half-blinded god, master of the Norse pantheon and the Allfather: Odin!

Mythological Figures: Cathay Williams

Sep 21

Break out the bugle and battle standard because today in Mythological Figures we’re going a century and a half back to post-Civil War America, exploring the history of an incredibly brave woman named Cathay Williams.

Epic Monsters: Bunyip

Sep 14

Oi Epic Monsters is headed back down under to take a gander at a mythological creature from the Outback, a mysterious beast of which little is definitively known: the bunyip!

Mythological Figures: Melankomas

Sep 07

Today in Mythological Figures we’re looking at a supposed winner of the ancient Olympiad who’s said to have truly floated like a butterfly, so evasive that nobody could even hit him: Melankomas!

Epic Monsters: Rusalka

Aug 31

While out for a walk and reminiscing about your favorite Epic Monsters you spot something awry in the deep creek near your house. Is that a person caught beneath the current? It is! It’s a woman—and she’s beautiful, and beckoning to you to join her, and without thinking you march to your watery grave becoming yet another victim of the vengeful rusalka!

Mythological Figures: King Shaka

Aug 24

We’re finally getting more subjects from the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent here in the Mythological Figures column, putting together statistics for one of history’s most famous Africans: King Shaka!

Epic Monsters: Leannán Sídhe

Aug 17

Today’s entry in Epic Monsters could be my favorite yet, and not because I am quietly afraid my wife might be among them. Indeed these muses of Irish folklore are beautiful and enchanting, offering inspiration to those who accept and return their affections—only to ultimately drag them down into madness and death. Prepare yourselves for the leannán sídhe!

Mythological Figures: Dr. Moreau

Aug 10

Mythological Figures is going mad today, mad I tell you! On this lonely island the beasts walk like men—or something more, something in between humans and animals. Today we take a trip to the island of Dr. Moreau!

Epic Monsters: Cheshire Cat

Aug 03

We all know the grin of today’s entry in Epic Monsters, but there is much about this mysterious creature that will surprise you—like how its first appearance was not in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Are you intrigued? Good because I think it’d like that. Click onward for the Cheshire Cat!

Mythological Figures: John "Jack" Broughton

Jul 27

I’m right chuffed with today’s entry in Mythological Figures and I reckon if you take a gander you’ll be too. I swear I’m not taking the piss so apologies if I've mucked up the lingo, but it seemed proper for a bloke like John “Jack” Broughton!

Epic Monsters: Grootslang

Jul 20

Epic Monsters is getting weird with a legend from South Africa, a serpent as massive as it is devious: the Grootslang!

Mythological Figures: Semiramis

Jul 13

Today in Mythological Figures we’re talking about perhaps the most ancient queen in recorded history, a woman that ruled over a massive swath of earth for half a decade: Semiramis!

Epic Monsters: Māui

Jul 06

It’s about time Epic Monsters had some fun in the surf and sun. Who better to make that happen than the island fishing, fire stealing, sun slowing Māui!

Mythological Figures: Captain Ahab

Jun 29

Whether or not you’ve read the classic today’s Mythological Figure is from you know who he is because of the massive creature of the sea he endlessly hunts after. I’m talking up that peg-legged mad-eyed obsessed sailor extraordinaire known as Captain Ahab!

Epic Monsters: Balor

Jun 22

This entry in Epic Monsters takes us into the mythological wars of Ireland’s supernatural legends with the Fomorian champion: Balor!

Mythological Figures: Queen Tamar

Jun 15

Mythological Figures heads to the ancient world and the nation of Georgia two centuries after the first millennium, taking a look at one of history’s most fierce and accomplished rulers: Queen Tamar!

Epic Monsters: Onocentaur (Poll)

Jun 08

Epic Monsters has taken on aircraft-cursing gremlins, Cthulhu and his whole gang, the Mothman, Baba Yaga, Dracula, the World Turtle—but none are the type of challenge posed by today’s subject. Meet the ridiculous onocentaur!

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