Episode Zero: Introducing Monster Complex

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Do you like stories about monsters?

Monster Complex explores monster fiction in all its forms—books, movies, TV, comics, games, and anywhere else you can find stories about monsters and those who fight them. I’m Will Christopher and on Monster Complex I’ll be covering a whole range of stories and storytellers, from…

  • Author Patricia Briggs to Stephen King

  • Universal’s Classic monsters to Japanese giant monsters

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Supernatural

  • Doctor Who to What We Do in the Shadows

  • Hellboy to Ultraman

  • The Munsters to Hotel Transylvania

Whether it’s stories about science gone wrong, vampires, werewolves, spirits, folklore, mythology, cryptozoology, or anything of the like—Monster Complex be right there with interviews, lists, roundups, and discussions. If this sounds like your kind of show, please subscribe where you get your favorite podcasts. Visit me at MonsterComplex.com for monsterfic news, lists, clips from classic shows and movies, and lots more.

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Become a member of Monster Complex: https://www.patreon.com/monstercomplex

Subscribe to the free Monster Complex online magazine: https://www.monstercomplex.com/mag-sub-registration

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

https://chriswell.substack.com/
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