Monsters (legendary creatures)

Mike McGrady dies at 78; journalist behind sexy bestselling hoax

2012-05-20 00:00:00

In the summer of 1966, Newsday columnist Mike McGrady threw down the gauntlet to a trusted coterie of fellow journalists: Produce a novel so poorly written and relentlessly focused on sex that it would fly off bookstore shelves. Two dozen colleagues,...

Movie review: 'Trollhunter'

2011-06-23 19:44:18

From Norwegian writer-director Andr� Ovredal comes the spry, amusing and pulse-pounding "Trollhunter," a monster movie with a love for mountainous, tree-lined Scandinavian scenery and an even greater love for setting memorably ugly, hulking and...

The alien in the basement, and other buyer turnoffs

2009-11-01 00:00:00

Some houses are heart-stopping perfect. But John Boyd's ticker skipped a beat a few years ago for another reason when he was previewing a house on behalf of a client. It was a "pretty expensive house," said Boyd of Home Buyer's Agent in Ann Arbor, Mich....

Critic's Notebook: Annette Bening takes the ordinary to Oscar-worthy heights

2011-02-27 00:00:00

There is a very particular art to playing the ordinary. Few actors do it well — Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney always come to mind. Of those, most fail to get their due come Oscar night — thoughts of Giamatti and Linney rise again. The...

From the Vaults: 'The Wolf Man' (1941)

2010-09-17 16:33:30

Friday TV Highlights: â€œIt's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brownâ€ on ABC.

2010-10-28 21:34:52

The Siren's Call: Bigfoot and secret societies

2009-08-30 00:00:00

Remember Robert Bly's bestselling 1990 book "Iron John: A Book About Men"? It was the manifesto for a movement -- a call for men to get back in touch with their primal selves. Go out in the woods, strip off your shirt, bang on a drum and howl at the moon....

'You Think That's Bad': Book review

2011-04-10 00:00:00

You Think That's Bad Stories Jim Shepard Alfred A. Knopf: 226 pp., $24.95 It's not that Jim Shepard isn't known, exactly; it's that he isn't known enough. Although his 2007 collection of short fiction, "Like You'd Understand, Anyway," was a finalist...

The Siren's Call: A beastly menagerie

2011-04-24 00:00:00

Scan through digital images from the Aberdeen Bestiary and you'll find a marvelous stew of myth and reality. Alongside familiar animals — leopards, panthers, hyenas — this glorious 12th century illuminated manuscript includes some strange...

Still alive!

2009-06-14 00:00:00

To call something "notes" means it isn't finished. A preparation for something else, or a work in progress. Or It means I know this is less than perfect. It means the piecemeal composition is acknowledged, should be applauded. "And to my horror (for I...

'The Extra' by Michael Shea

2010-02-11 00:00:00

The cash machine that is "Avatar" proves once again that spectacle never goes out of style. Although we pay lip service to the virtues of intelligence in entertainment, what we really like is to sit back and marvel at the greatest bells and whistles...

'Vampire Diaries' and Hollywood's undying love for fang fantasy

2009-09-17 08:53:39

An R/C Hummer with a GoPro camera attached is pictured next to the monster truck Gravedigger at the Florida Citrus Bowl. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel)

2012-01-27 12:45:48

Valerie Hobson wasn't the first Elizabeth to be pursued by the monster, but we can hardly blame him for going after her in Bride of Frankenstein.

2010-04-20 13:37:01

slated to open in spring 2010. This rendering is for the Dervish and Banges store. This is what the Web site has to say about Dervish and Banges: Be sure to stop at Dervish and Banges for such magical items as Sneakoscopes, Spectrespecs, Omnioculars, and The Monster Book of Monsters.

2010-02-03 08:57:59