Search query: gilmore monsters

Product: Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors
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The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations and share so many features across different cultures.

Using colorful and absorbing evidence from virtually all times and places, Monsters is the first attempt by an anthropologist to delve into the mysterious, frightful abyss of mythical beasts and to interpret their role in the psyche and in society. After many hair-raising descriptions of monstrous beings in art, folktales, fantasy, literature, and community ritual, including such avatars as Dracula and Frankenstein, Hollywood ghouls, and extraterrestrials, Gilmore identifies many common denominators and proposes some novel interpretations.

Monsters, according to Gilmore, are always enormous, man-eating, gratuitously violent, aggressive, sexually sadistic, and superhuman in power, combining our worst nightmares and our most urgent fantasies. We both abhor and worship our monsters: They are our gods as well as our demons. Gilmore argues that the immortal monster of the mind is a complex creation embodying virtually all of the inner conflicts that make us human. Far from being something alien, nonhuman, and outside us, our monsters are our deepest selves.

The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Gilmore's...engaging book suggests a universal need to extend perceptions of evil far beyond the obvious." (Choice)

Product: Lynx's Demons: The Demons Cursed Conscience Series (A Cursed Demon Trilogy Book 1)
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"Everyone has an Angel. One day yours will come for you."

These haunting words have invaded Lynx's dreams for more than a century, His days are no better. The rushed whisper of his name teases him. A gentle caress of his skin tortures him and he is inevitably cursed with the one thing no demon should have.
A conscience.
"And people thought being in Hell was a bad thing."
Agonizing over another depressing century, Lynx goes to Vegas. Sin City to continue his business of sending souls to Hell.
In a chance meeting with the incredibly beautiful Reggie, a new spark of purpose rises in Lynx. Knowing he will outlive her, he decides to take a chance. Unbeknownst to Lynx, there is an evil plot so sinister it rivals any torment Hell can deliver. With human and demon lives at stake, if Lynx doesn't discover the source and destroy it in time no one will be left alive.
Can he find the culprit, save humanity and lift his own curse before the world ends?

Product: Enemies #4 (The Hollow)
Brand: Brand: Razorbill
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