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Spooky Book of the Day: October 17

Posted by Dana on 10.17.2010 at 10:56 am

In this season of ghosts and witches (not to mention our current fascination with glittery vampires and legions of snarky undeadsters) we sometimes forget about the more general and encompassing category of monsters.  But not today, friends. Not today.

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ON MONSTERS: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T. Asma

From the Publisher:

Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the process reveal something deeply important about the darker recesses of our collective psyche.

Stephen Asma’s On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters–how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future. Asma begins with a letter from Alexander the Great in 326 B.C. detailing an encounter in India with an “enormous beast–larger than an elephantthree ominous horns on its forehead.” Read more…

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