Books like Monster theory by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

1818 novel by Mary Shelley about young scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox experiment.

An anthology of essays exploring how monsters reveal the cultural values, history, and morality of the societies that create them.

Discusses such creatures as Bigfoot, the Demon Cat, and Mothman which, though never proven, are said to exist in the United States.

A collection of twelve global folktales featuring a mix of friendly and fearsome monsters.

Accounts of lesser-known monsters, including the Jersey Devil, Hairy Hands, Dover Demon, Spring-Heeled Jack, and other phantom animals.

"The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch of 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. All known folklores brim with visions of looming and ferocious monsters, often in the role as adversaries to great heroes. But while heroes have been closely studied by mythologists, monsters have been neglected, even though they are equally important as pan-human symbols and reveal similar insights into ways the mind works. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

When Earl Florian’s enemies attack, apprentice Sarita hides the Earl’s infant son with her and flees to the mountain lair of the legendary beast, the Loden.

"I'll show you what horror means," snarled Fredric March in the 1931 film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Six decades later, the acclaimed author of Hollywood Gothic makes good on Mr. Hyde's promise with the most ambitious and entertaining history of the genre ever published. America is in love with horror, with demon children, gender-bending vampires, and the battlefield aesthetic of post-Vietnam movies. Horror entertainment in all its forms - from Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Phantom of the Opera to Stephen King, Anne Rice, and the Terminator, from Tod Browning's "Freaks" to the photographs of Diane Arbus and the neo-Gothic trappings of heavy metal music - is a multi-billion-dollar cultural juggernaut. Illuminating the dark side of the American century, this provocative book uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating social analysis and revealing anecdote, David Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive modes of cultural expression. He explores the disguised form in which Hollywood's classic horror movies played out the traumas of two world wars and the Depression; the nightmare visions of invasion and mind control catalyzed by the Cold War; the preoccupation with demon children that took hold as thalidomide, birth control, and abortion changed the reproductive landscape; the vogue in visceral, transformative special effects that paralleled the development of the plastic surgery industry; the link between the AIDS epidemic and the current fascination with vampires; and much more.

A juvenile exploration of alleged real monsters—sea monsters, Bigfoot, Yeti, and more—detailing their histories and the beliefs surrounding them.