Sophie's Thoughts & Fumbles May Monster Madness Posts

Being a big fan of monsters and ghosts and ghouls, The May Monster Madness Blog Hop has it all for me ;) This is their second year, but my first. I thought, since this is my first post in the blog hop, I'd tell you a little bit about myself and why I find monsters are great to watch, read and write.

This is my second post for the May Monster Madness Blog Hop. I've written, or rather, raved about The Woman In Black before on this blog, under Hammer's The Woman In Black and from that post, it is pretty obvious I am a big, big fan of this story in all its forms, book, stage play, TV adaptation and movie.

This is my third post for the May Monster Madness Blog Hop. My subject today is loveable monsters, those (sometimes) ugly creatures that are a bit scary but that turn out to be adorable. Jim Henson was a master at creating loveable monsters.

This is my fourth post for the May Monster Madness Blog Hop. This post is all about those monsters that hide behind beauty: I'm talking about evil step mothers and wicked fairies. In these creatures from fairytales and fantasy, beauty is ice cold, their ugliness hidden behind a mask, but that makes them no less monstrous than an ogress.

This is my fifth post for the May Monster Madness Blog Hop. As I write this post, I am sitting watching The Relic, a horror movie favourite of mine, because reading all the posts from this blog hop has put in the mood for some good ol' scares.

This is my sixth post for the May Monster Madness Blog Hop. Today, I'm devoting my post to a fandom I have been in since I was a little girl, Dr Who - yes, anyone under 20, there was a series way before the 00's revamp, and although CGI was unheard of, it spun a damn good yarn.

This is my seventh and final post for the May Monster Madness Blog Hop. I'm a writer, so I thought I'd share with you some of my thoughts around creating a monster on the page.