Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lam and this is The Monster Effect, a short form series from Stuff

to Blow Your Mind, focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

This episode of The Monster Effect previously published for UK listeners only and now

as promised, we're going to share it out to everyone.

I wanted to cover a nice, thoroughly British monster in this episode, which of course

hardly limits the selection process.

British lore, legend, literature, and gaming have produced hordes of great monsters, from

Grindel to Frankenstein's monster, from the questing beast of Hawthorian legend to that

werewolf that Ozzy Osborne turns into for the Barca of the Moon video.

And so this brings us, first, to Rawhead Rex.

The titular monster from English writer Clive Barker's novella of the same name, published

in 1984 and included in the third volume of his excellent books of blood anthology series.

Barker describes the monster's god beast as having a huge head, the color of the moon,

and raw like a meat.

He has two rows of needle sharp teeth on each jaw, which emerge from bloody gums, quote,

like claws unsheathed from a cat's paw.

Unquote.

And his eyes, Barker writes, they were for all the world like wounds, those eyes as though

somebody had gouged them in the flesh of Rawhead's face, then set two candles to flicker

in the holes.

I highly recommend the books of blood, there's some real gums in there, but many of you

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