Hey everybody, this is Robert Lamb. We tend to avoid politics on the show.

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Vote with your hearts and vote with your minds.

Early voting is up and running in various places.

So get out there and make your voice heard if you can.

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Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact.

A short form series from Stuff to blow your mind focusing on

mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

Since this week is Halloween, I decided to draw inspiration from a particular elder

tome of otherworldly evil. No, it's not the Necronomicon, not the Book of Ebon, and not even the Denton affair.

I'm talking about the 2006 Malius monstroram from the role-playing game, Call of Kathula.

Now I realize there's a far more recent edition of this book.

Essentially it's a monster manual for the sixth edition of the Call of the Call of

Kathulu game from Kaeosum, Inc.

But the 2006 book, this is the one that I really love. It features scrapbook style illustrations,

so a mix of repurposed and altered images from various times and places that creates a haunting

sense of horror.

It implies that all of these things are lurking just beyond the limits of our senses,

the limits of our sanity, just waiting to burst through and we have all of these various illustrations, wood cuts, suspicious photographs

and so forth that hint at their forms.

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