Monsters of the Week

Pockets, Soaps and Episodic Storytelling

I remember as a kid watching the, now legendary, episode of The X-Files titled Squeeze where a man who creates nests out of bile can crawl through the tiniest of spaces into people’s homes to kill them and remove their livers, and thinking “I hope this isn’t going to be a recurring character”. Even at the age of 10 I knew that the episode was a perfect, horror…