Hello!
Guest Blogger Laura here, bringing you another snippet of Monsterliciousness!
My partner in crime Christian recently found this poetry book from his childhood:
Apparently it used to completely horrify him. Quite right too! Honestly, it’s scaring me a little even now.
This is down to terrifically terrifying writing from poets such as Ted Hughes, Roger McGough, Ogden Nash and J.R.R. Tolkein. Coupled with equally odd and utterly disturbing imagery from Charles Fuge. . . just like this:
This..
And this guy..
..who reminds me of this guy:
Apart from thinking how much this would have fascinated me and scared the living daylights out of me as a kid, it also makes me a little sad.
Sad because I once had my own childhood monster book which freaked me out and i’d LOVE to discover it now. But I presume it was given away without my knowledge. I remember so vividly picking it out from the mobile, fold-away, shiny silver bookcases in my primary school assembly hall, when the book fair came to visit. It was a collection of short monster stories (that’s short stories about monsters, not stories about short monsters!). They were all fantastic but the one that scared me the most, above all others, was about a seaweed-covered monster who lived under an up-turned boat on a pebble strewn beach.
Does anyone else remember this book?
What books from your childhood used to really scare you?
Have you recently found a book from your past that brought back strange memories?
Do you have a book at home now which totally creeps you out?
Sleep tight 
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Monstrosities
Charles Fuge
9780099673309
(1989)