A yōkai print by Kawanabe Kyōsai

I’ve always loved folklore and mythology and the creatures that inhabit them and our worst nightmares, both historical and more contemporary.

Whether it’s Grendel or The Creature from the Black Lagoon that creeps from the watery depths to terrorise the locals, I’m equally entranced by both.

Celluloid or scroll no matter where these beasts come from, they are there to hold a mirror to human behaviour and plumb the depths of the human psyche and I want to list (and listen to) them all.

I know there are other sites out there that look at these and explore them but they tend to be a bit advert heavy for my liking and it sometimes makes seeing the information difficult so I’m trying to make a site that is as clutter free as possible.

I’m going to put them in various lists. Alphabetical and geographical will be the two main ones, but there will also be lists for games, books, film, and others as I think about them.

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