{"id":46590,"date":"2021-04-05T05:26:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=46590"},"modified":"2021-04-05T05:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:26:51","slug":"northeast-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/05\/northeast-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Northeast Popular Culture\/American Culture Association seeks<\/a>… <\/p>\n

papers that explore and highlight the Northeast’s contributions to monster lore, including authors, events, individuals, locations, and, of course, monsters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is for an online session. Proposals by: 1st August 2021. I can’t find a map of what they count as being “Northeast” (now there’s an opportunity for an map-artist\/illustrator, potentially) but it definitely includes New England.<\/p>\n

Rather surprisingly there appears to be no New England historical folk bestiary other than the 64-page children’s book Ghastly Perils of the Great Outdoors<\/em> (1986), though I’m not sure how historically grounded its whimsies are…<\/p>\n

Here for the first time the truth about the Womkeag, Rumweevil, Gouger, Pakroc and dozens of other snaggers, shuckers, nitters, fumblers, grinders, chuckers, and twangers infesting the Great Outdoors<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Possibly the region is just too big to bring sales for a comprehensive survey, since most likely readers will only be interested in their own smaller sub-region? From a British perspective it would probably be like expecting people to be interested in a survey from the Orkneys in Scotland down to Brittany in northern France. When what you really want is a county survey. However, the region’s sea monsters are surveyed in The Great New England Sea Serpent<\/a><\/em> (1999) and several other books.<\/p>\n

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Possibly a good stocking-filler for a child in New England?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Northeast Popular Culture\/American Culture Association seeks… papers that explore and highlight the Northeast’s contributions to monster lore, including authors, …<\/p>\n

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