There was a website about monsters. It was all about monsters.Sounds fun. But don't bother looking for it. It's gone.The internet is like that.The website is gone but we have the FAQ page. And in honor of anyone who remembers that there used to be a monster website that didn't completely suck, we are publishing this relic of an older internet.The FAQ is a strange thing. Does it really answer the questions everyone asks, or is it more random than that?

In 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.I started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The shit I read when I was a kid.When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I spent all my money on comic books. I would go to the local shop on Saturdays and buy a large wedge of books and spend the next week reading them all.I loved all of them, but would they all stand up?

Josh helps run the science fiction club at his college. It's okay. It's fun enough. And then the djinn showed. He doesn't have genie powers as much as he can manipulate time and space whenever he finds it most amusing.The djinn lives in an action figure playset in the back of the club's space. He will force adventures onto Josh, whether Josh likes it or not. Caliban will appear. Another djinn will show up. Red-headed step children of literature will come out of paperbacks and start...

The world of old time radio is a fantasy land where you take the voices and make an entire world. Nothing is better.This collects six forgotten masterpieces. And yes. They are real. Why would you even think to say that we made this shit up? We would never write something ourselves and call it masterpieces. We are too humble for that.Six masterpieces. Well, you can decide.There is the episode of Doctor Jeckyll's Two Face Saloon where a man comes in to play Hangman wi...

Santo was the greatest luchador that ever danced in the ring.His moves were so good they were like poetry.And that is why we present a book of poetry.Most are inspired by some of his great movies, where he fought vampires, werewolves and robots.These poems are irreverent and sometimes touching.There is a world to explore in the films of a masked wrestler fighting Aztec Mummies. There is a world of poetry in the saga of Santo.. We are brave enough to ...

Who has the time to watch a whole movie?There are so many movies and you don't have the time squeezing in all the cat videos you are constantly scrolling through.How do you get to watch a lot of movies?Why don't you just watch a minute from a bunch of movies?That's a plan, but even that will take time that you don't have, what is to be done?You can let us watch it for you. We have picked Tubi, which has a very large catalog of movies to stream and we...

Bookcases lie in wait.They are teeming with books. Some of them you have read. Some of them you were given as gifts. Other books were bought with enthusiasm and then ignored. Forgotten.Bookcases tell the story of a the owner of the books. They tell you what his interests are and where he buys his books. What stores does he loiter in?This is a memoir of five years of buying and reading and not reading books. David goes through each of the books in the bookcase and te...

Who do you call a criminal?It can't be Martha and Emily. They help the criminals, but does that make them crooks as well?The Sisters are just trying to make a living. They will bring illicit materials to mob bosses. They will copyedit notes announcing that this is a bank robbery. They will teach others how to distribute counterfeit money. They will also drug and transport people. They will not do terrible things to them, just transport them.Does that make them bad?

What's the best part of a hardboiled detective yarm?Is it the drunk detective rooting around for the solution?Is it the relentless mood of impending doom?Or could it be the confession?The confession is the such a cool part of a hardboiled detective yearn.And this novel has person after person coming into the police station to confess to the same crime.What's wrong here?Not every one who says they killed the rich man could actually kil...

David wrote two similar memoirs in the form of lists. One was all the monsters he loved before he was 13. The second memoir was all the heroes he loved before he became a teen.This collects both 100 Monsters and 100 Heroes. What makes a hero you love? What makes a monster you love? Can they be the same character?These two little books were meant to be together.And now they are

A few weeks ago, I received a zine by the prolific self-publisher, Marc Fischer, called the Self Initiated Hotel Artist Residency. It talked about using a cheap hotel room for several days as a kind of studio. This is not a new idea, but it was nice to see that notion explored so well by a talented writer.He asked for those of us who have used a hotel as an artists' retreat to write him and send him a line. And that is what this is.This open letter addressed to Marc sketche...

Who did you idolize as a kid? Who did you see as a hero?David Macpherson has asked that question to himself and assembled 100 heroes of his from before he was 13. When you are a kid, you are the most open to having a hero.Each hero gets a little essay describing why they mattered. Some of these are funny and absurd. Some are moving. There are a good deal of comic book and television heroes, but some of these were real. All too real.What David Macpherson has given yo...