num_pages: 288
description: When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the Minotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chatrooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself. As they fumble their way back to reality through a mesmerising world of abundant information but little knowledge, we are forced to wonder - can technology itself be anything more than a myth?
language: English
title: The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
titlecomplete: The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, Contemporary, Retellings, Science Fiction, Greek Mythology, Russia, Horror, Mythology, Fantasy
ratings_count: 3142
publisher: Canongate Books