Hoxton Street Monster Supplies — Local services in London

My wife volunteers here, and it's a fantastic program with great goods.

This place supports children's literacy programs, encouraging children to write their own stories and learn the value of reading, writing and general creativity. It focuses primarily on students in need and low-income areas.

To support this very worthy cause, they have a huge supply of monster-themed merchandise which is clever and well-branded. Which child wouldn't enjoy "cubed earwax" (carmels) or "salt made with tears of anger" (smoked salt from Halen Mon) or a nice necklace that declares "UUURRRRGGHH!". Everything is clever and cute yet wonderfully themed. And the shop itself is well-themed too, but if you can't get there, they even take...

As a teacher, I have become accustomed to a certain level of fear from my students. When I am on vacation, I get a craving and I thought this conspicuous shoppee would do the trick. After having a lovely chat with the “ghoul” behind the counter, I was able to peruse the selection of fears and anxieties kept high on shelves, but not out of reach of children. 😉 I made my selection, A Certain Feeling of Unease, and checked out. I almost got a second fear, Mortal Terror, for a friend’s 30th birthday, though that seemed a bit on the nose. Great little haunt for any witch or alchemist in training! Just be careful not to step on the resident invisible biblio cat. Now, I’ve never seen and...

We've visited Hoxton Street Monster Supplies on Feb 15 this year since our daughter has watched the clip several times already within "Die Maus" app on her iPad. The staff in the shop was very polite and we had a nice chit-chat with them about monsters, the ingredients of the goods they sell and so on. From a tourist perspective this was a great thing to do but I doubt that you often visit that store as a local since the stock didn't change that much from the one from the opening. But it's definitely worth a visit and the invisible cat was something...