In the second part of our look back at the Piccolo Explorer Book of Mysteries, we discover what this 1980s children's book series had to...

We take a look at the latest incarnation of the Universal werewolf in Wolf Man (2025) written and directed by Leigh Whannell!   Previous cha...

A new monster-sized podcast series begins!  We explore the origins of the kaiju movie, and in this first chapter delve into ancient Japanese...

In this penultimate chapter of the history of Universal horror we look at two late monsters movies from 1957, the forgotten dinosaur adventu...

In this chapter we discover the cavalcade of monsters and mutants unleashed by Universal in the mid 1950s! Jack Arnold brings back the Gill-...

In this new chapter of  horror history we look at Boris Karloff's last role in a Universal horror, and see the birth of a new famous mon...

In this chapter of Universal horror history we learn how the famous monsters returned to the silver screen, when Dracula, the Wolfman and Fr...

Thanks to a random search involving the word "egg", we've ended up with a kaiju movie from 1970 - giant radioactive turtle Gam...

1942 continues to be a bumper year for Universal, with Kharis rising from the grave once more in the shape of Lon Chaney Jnr. in The Mummy...

In this chapter we see Universal riding high on the success of The Wolf Man , and launching a record-breaking number of horror movies in 194...

In this chapter we look at a landmark year for Universal horror - 1941 -  the year that brought us the first appearances of Lon Chaney Jnr. ...

Welcome back dear fiends to another rummage in the 'Orrible 'Ouse of Terrible Old Tat! Last time we recounted the glorious as...

Welcome back dear fiends to the 'Orrible 'Ouse of Terrible Old Tat! Now then when scholars of the scary gather together and ta...

This time round we are off to Egypt to discover what happened at the end of the 1990s when Universal resurrected one of their old classic...

In this   episode Mr Jim Moon brings this series of podcasts on gill-men and aquatic horrors full circle with a look at some curious cas...

In this episode we look at the last of the books on the weird and the wonderful written by Daniel Farson for Hamlyn. In this colourful v...

In celebration of Guillermo del Toro's new opus The Shape of Water , Mr Jim Moon sets sail on a new new podcast series and submerges...

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon tackles one of the most troubling questions of our times, a question that has perplexed the minds of man for....

In this selection from previous Folklore on Friday articles, we are once more rounding up assorted strange creatures and denizens of the...