Monster Mondays focus on learning about new monsters while highlighting gender-specific issues, scaring ourselves silly, and fostering serious conversations. The series officially started in May 2015, but its beginnings were in the A to Z Challenge in April 2015. Because of Part-Time Monster’s focus on girls and monsters, I chose the theme “Lady Monsters” for the 2015 challenge. The month proved to be so much fun, and the posts provoked so many conversations, that I decided to continue blogging about female monsters and to invite others to write about them with me.

Monster Mondays began with three regular contributors:  Urszula Humienik, who writes about Slavic monsters, Alex Hurst, who guest posted a year-long series about Japanese monsters, and myself. In 2016, we welcomed Robin Rivera of Write On, Sisters as a regular contributor; Robin posts about Hispanic monsters. We are often joined by other guest posters. Posts have included characters from classic and modern film, mythology, comics, and urban legends.

If you’re looking for the original A to Z Lady Monsters posts, you can find them here.  Below is an alphabetical index of monsters discussed on Monster Mondays. Bylines for posts are parenthetically noted. See this page for more information about guest posters and series contributors, including their blogs and other links.

• Ava of Ex Machina (William Hohmeister)
• Baba Yaga (Urszula Humienik)
• Bina48 (Diana)

  

• La Calavera Catrina: A Fashionable Monster (Robin Rivera)
• La Cegua: Shifter Woman with Many Names (Robin Rivera)
• La Ciguapa (Robin Rivera)
• Cuca (Robin Rivera)
• Devana (Urszula Humienik)
• Dola (Urszula Humienik)
• Dragon (Diana)
• Futakuchi Onna: Two-Mouthed-Woman (Alex Hurst)
• The Giant’s Wife from Into the Woods (Allison Gammons)
• Toire no Hanako (Alex Hurst)
• Izanami (Alex Hurst)
• Kitsune Onna: The Fox Woman (Alex Hurst)
• Kuchisake Onna: Slit-Mouthed-Woman (Alex Hurst)
• Levana of The Lunar Chronicles (Mina Villy)
• La Llorona (Robin Rivera)
• Louise of Spring (Diana)
• Lying Cat (Diana)
• La Madremonte (Robin Rivera)
• Mares–Slavic (Urszula Humienik)
• Medusa (Melissa Barker-Simpson)
• Melanie, The Girl with All the Gifts (Diana
• Morena–Slavic Goddess of Winter and Death (Urszula Humienik)
• Nure Onna: Snake Woman (Alex Hurst)

  

• Onibaba: The Demon Hag (Alex Hurst)
• The Other Mother (Diana)
• Plague Maiden (Urszula Humienik)
• Rodzanice (Urszula Humienik)
• Rokurokubi  (Alex Hurst)
• Natasha Romanoff of Avengers: Age of Ultron–Part 1 and  Natasha Romanoff of Avengers: Age of Ultron–Part 2 (Natacha Guyot)
• Rusalki and Other Nymphs (Urszula Humienik)
• Mary Shelley (Diana)
• Sirin and Alkonost: Mythical Slavic Birds (Urszula Humienik)
• Ursula and the Sea Witch (Allison Gammons)
• Hispanic Vampires: Guajona, Soucouyant, and Tunda (Robin Rivera)
• Yuki Onna: The Snow Woman (Alex Hurst)
• Carrie White (Melissa Barker-Simpson)

Bonus: Interview with author Natacha Guyot: Concerning The Clairvoyance Chronicles Vol 1 and Monstrous Women