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My Favourite Monster
It’s Halloween week! Unless you’re me, and several other goths it’s the 26th of Halloween. So of course we’re keeping it spooky all week. And today I’m sort of revisiting teratophilia, only just with a focus on the second greatest and most long running love of my life The Phantom of the Opera. Technically not a monster, in spite of being one of the Universal movie monsters. But teratophilia includes deformities. A quick bit of French literature history before we get into this. The Phantom of the Opera, based on the novel of the same name was written by Gaston Leroux and is now probably his best known work. It…
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Monsters In My Bed
I’ve had a lot of very passionate relationships. They’ve spanned years, we’ve bared our souls to each other. They’ve also been with entirely fictional characters. My longest running romance is with The Phantom of the Opera, he’s changed a lot over the years and these days looks and sounds a lot more like my partner (who on our first Halloween together dressed up as him for me, yes he is very much a keeper). Having crushes on monsters is not uncommon, yes I know technically Erik (we’re on first name terms and everything) is not a monster but he does get classed as one of the Universal Horror monsters so…