April Blogging from A – Z Challenge!

If you don’t know, April is the month that bloggers from all over the blogosphere and from every possible genre or topic of blog, come together for a massive blogging extravaganza. I don’t know where the time went, or how it got here so quickly, but it starts in nine days y’all and I can’t wait!

Every day for the month of April another strange and unusual monster, myth or beast will make it’s appearance on these pages. I’m not talking about the typical vampires and werewolves, oh no! I’ll be pulling some of the strangest creatures around straight from the dusty, crumbling, rarely-read tomes of folklore from around the world.

I use bits and bites from folklore extensively in my own writing. My YA epic fantasy novel Magicless features headless cannibals with mouths in the centers of their chests called Anthropophagi, mysterious creatures of the water called Ashrays, and a bulbous spindly armed creature called a Boggle or Ballybog. My dark urban fantasy novella Desiderium (book one in my Monsters series) features a succubus and dark magic. And my up and coming novel ‘Ling features a Changeling, and Golum-like creature of earth and magic. All actual creatures from the shadowlands of myth and the magic of folklore.

So come along! Let’s check out some of the seriously odd creatures spawned from the dark ages of human history, from the fear of the dark and the unknown.

k.