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1979 Smith's #Monster Munch
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October 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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From our rare books collection we have this illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis, also known as the vampire squid from hell. In an order of its own, we don't really think the vampiric moniker is fair either as they actually feed on detritus and not blood #EYAMonsters
A colour illustration of Vampyroteuthis infernalis. The main body is painted black, with eyes painted to look bioluminescent
October 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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If you’re going on a monster hunt, look up! Gargoyles are an excellent place to start. This particular specimen looks out over St Michael’s Churchyard from the Old College, Aberystwyth
📸Arthur Chater, December 1968
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#EYAMonsters #Architecture #welshhistory #coflein #cbhc
October 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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If you were in Bolehill at #Halloween 2003, then you may have opened your door to this scary bunch of trick or treaters. The stuff of nightmares!
#PhotoFriday #EYAMonsters
A dimly lit room with a crowd of children, dressed as monsters with scary masks, all peering at the camera.
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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This image is of Zeeba, a mythical Tibetan beast created by Shiva #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAB000124/00001?search=beast&cid=
October 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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On #PhotoFriday we visit Ripley in 1932 when you might have been surprised to see the Loch Ness monster taking a stroll along Cromford Road. But don’t worry, this magnificent beast was taking part in Ripley Carnival and definitely friendly!

#EYAMonsters #1930s
The Loch Ness Monster made from a long length of fabric and a papier mache head. You can see children’s legs underneath and standing alongside is a man dressed in a kilt and sporran, and a child carrying a sign reading 'Loch Ness Monster Beware Do Not Touch'. Image courtesy of www.picturethepast.org.uk
October 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Initially, this might look like an unfortunate soul being pursued by a monster. However, the carvings might represent Adam and Eve. Either way, they don’t look thrilled about the situation
Carving at St Padarn’s Church, Llanbadarn, Radnorshire.
📸RCAHMW, 2012
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#EYAMonsters #coflein
English – Coflein
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October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Need inspiration in #NationalBakingWeek? How about a Bakewell Pudding? It doesn’t need to be as big as this one made in 1987 at The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop, which weighed a massive six hundredweight. That’s 672 pounds, or 304.81kg!!

#PhotoFriday #EYAMonsters
A baker wearing a white overall and cap stands in a bakery window with a huge flat tin of Bakewell Pudding. The tin is almost as big as him. Smiling people look through the window from outside.
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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For this month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme #EYAMonsters, these illustrations by Dorrit Dekk for a mural for the Trust Houses Forte Edinburgh, now known as the Balmoral Hotel

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colourful illustrations of mythological or medieval creatures like a sphinx with wings, beaked armadillo, a winged goat, a dragon, and so on
October 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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The woodblock print on this letter paper from Nepal shows a Garuda, a mythical Tibetan monster #EYAMonsters ow.ly/tiv050WV4wi
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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This pantomime version was written by Wilfred Miller and features Sinbad visiting the realm of King Neptune! 🔱

@redruthoperatic1909 #RAOS #pantomime #sinbadthesailor #eyamonsters @exploreyourarchive #redruthamateuroperaticsociety
October 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Whether mythical or real, Cornwall’s ‘monsters’ tell powerful stories about belief, fear and identity. Come and explore them with us!

Thanks to one of our volunteers for writing this post.

@exploreyourarchives #eyamonsters #witchcraft #folklore #cornishfolklore
October 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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This month’s Explore Your Archive theme is #EYAMonsters / #EYAArrachta! We want to see everyone’s archives relating to monsters (and Halloween & Samhain as well!) 🎃👻 Don’t forget to 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #exploreyourarchive #cuardaighdochartlann
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This 19th-century Burmese silver bowl showcases deep repousse work & vivid storytelling. Figures like Ravanna, Princess Sita & the ogress Ma Gambi (the golden deer) animate compressed local versions of the Rama tale, popular across the region. #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005819/00001
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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This huge block of coal was hewn from Pollington Colliery, near New Brinsley, at the time the largest single piece of coal taken from a mine, 4 Tons 12 hundredweights (4,600Kg), loaded onto an Oakes railway truck to be taken to the London Colliery Exhibition 1903.

#EYAMonsters #coalmining
Black and white photograph of a railway truck with a massive rectangle of coal on it. Several miners are sitting on and standing next to the truck. A wooden board is propped against the truck; it says "From Messrs Oakes & Cos Pollington Colliery to the Colliery Exhibition, London".
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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How's this for a creepy monster? This puzzle appeared on a late 19th century advert for the Derby Repairing Co. "The Great Repairing Kings".

#EYAMonsters #Victorian #puzzle
Two images showing the front and back of a small card on which a puzzle being an illustration of multiple faces appears with the text "The other side is not a puzzle, but a fact, and you will save time and money by dealing with us. THE PUZZLE OF PUZZLES. PUZZLE. COUNT FIFTEEN FACES IN THE ABOVE". The back of the card contains details of the services provided by the Derby Repairing Co. as well as their locations in the borough.
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Who doesn’t love a map? 🗺️ This 1576 Elizabethan map by Christopher Saxton features sea monsters—once drawn to spark imagination or hint at ocean mysteries. They vanished by the late 1600s as science advanced. #eyamonsters #cornishmaps #seamonsters @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
colourful illustrated map of Cornwall from 1576, the seas around Cornwall are filled with various fantastical sea monsters colourful illustrated map of Cornwall from 1576, the seas around Cornwall are filled with various fantastical sea monsters colourful illustrated map of Cornwall from 1576, the seas around Cornwall are filled with various fantastical sea monsters
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Is it a monster? Or a badger with a hangover? Either way, this little creature was carved into stone at All Saints’ Church, Gresford. The church was mentioned in the Domesday book, but was almost wholly rebuilt in the 15th century
📸RCAHMW, October 2009
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#EYAMonsters #rcahmw #coflein
English – Coflein
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October 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Poster of Durga as the killer of the buffalo demon, 1976-1978 #EYAMonsters https://ow.ly/tL5c50X1xBo
October 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Poster of Durga as the killer of the buffalo demon, 1976-1978 #EYAMonsters https://ow.ly/tL5c50X1xBo
October 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The lion-faced ogre kirtimukha—seen in the text boxes of this 1903 Javanese manuscript—appears across Hindu, Buddhist & Islamic art in SE Asia. Derived from South India’s “face of glory,” it’s a symbol of protection #EYAMonsters digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005781/0...
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Krishna kills the demon Keshi. Image by Paul Fox, 1978 #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00000160/00001
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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As it's #Halloween today we've had a hunt around our stores, and here are some scary things we've found lurking there! We hope you don't find them too scary!
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Title page of "A Treatise of Specters" from our Robert White Collection. Title page of the St Alb-ns Ghost, found in our 18th Century Collection. A nightmare for every archivist: A pile of pieces of perished elastic band. A ghostly shelfmark!
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The lion-faced ogre kirtimukha—seen in the text boxes of this 1903 Javanese manuscript—appears across Hindu, Buddhist & Islamic art in SE Asia. Derived from South India’s “face of glory,” it’s a symbol of protection #EYAMonsters https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005781/00004/5x
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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We are sharing some of the #monsters in our Knowles collection. The collection contains lots of early illustrations, templates, and research notes of existing artworks and designs in churches in York, England, and parts of Europe.

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Two medieval-style illustrations of a person figting mythical monsters. Text above describes designs on glass at York, text below describes the wool embroidary that these images are from. Pencil sketches of a heraldic eagle, a shield, a fish and a dragon-like creatures on aged paper. Two images of creatures from St. Martin's Church in Spurriergate, York; left: a horned demonic creature, right: a lion-like creature.
October 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM