Monsters
Subtitle: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Sep 03, 2009
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812220889
Description: Like so many other eternal adolescents, I am fascinated by imaginary monsters- especially the luscious ghouls and extraterrestrials in sci-fi literature and Hollywood films. They always inspired both dread and attraction in me, or perhaps empathy is a better word. So, given this morbid interest, the present book may represent a coming to grips with a juvenile obsession that has endured well into middle age. The appeal of monsters reaches a peak in childhood, when all prudent boys and girls check under their beds at night for demons, but it lingers well into adulthood. In those who are seriously weird-a category I admit belonging to-it evolves into a luxurious repertory of fantasies, anxieties, and phobias.
Notes: Source title: Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors