Category Archives: monsters

Monsters and the Monstrous: Inter-Disciplinary.Net

August 22nd, 2010 | Posted in monsters, monstrous

Interest in the monstrous, including academic explorations of this topic, is of course, not limited to America. Some of my recent research found a global group with a strong European component. It is called Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths & Metaphors of Enduring Evil as part of Inter-Disciplinary.Net: A Global Network for Dynamic Research and […]

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Cryptozoology: Chupacabra Killed in Texas?

July 14th, 2010 | Posted in Chupacabra, cryptozoology, monsters

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Has the legendary, blood-sucking monster, El Chupacabra, been shot and killed in Texas? The Discovery Channel’s description of Chupacabra: Mysterious animal deaths sparked mass hysteria on the small island of Puerto Rico. In 1992, Puerto Rican newspapers reported a series of strange killings […]

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Jewish Monstrosity

April 19th, 2010 | Posted in folklore, Jewish monsters, Judaism, monsters, myths

For those who may have come to this post via a search engine or link on a website or blog expecting to find something anti-Semitic you’ll be disappointed. Instead, I want to draw the reader’s attention to the recent discussion of various monsters from Jewish folklore, religion, and myth. In the West we tend to […]

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Two Promising Books, Authors, and Interviews for 2010

December 15th, 2009 | Posted in monsters, vampire

I’m reading a couple of books to prepare for interviews after the first of the year. They are both very good, so I’ll give them a plug and a preview. I became aware of the first one while reading a book proposal for my friend W. Scott Poole, author of Satan in America. It is […]

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GOLEM: Journal of Religion and Monsters

July 5th, 2009 | Posted in cultures, Golem, monsters

Readers of TheoFantastique are encouraged to browse through the links included here. They are listed under two categories, the first being Enjoying the Fantastic that includes a number of websites that fans will enjoy. The second category is Exploring the Fantastic. This category is for those who want to go more deeply in understanding why […]

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Forthcoming Interviews on Neglected Aspects of Horror

January 9th, 2009 | Posted in horror, monster hunter, monsters, mummy

My research and exploration of the fantastic over the last few months has unearthed some interested gems that touch on neglected aspects of horror. These include the book The Mummy’s Curse: Mummymania in the English-Speaking World(Routledge, 2006) by Jasmine Day, a lecturer in Egyptology. Of the various monster archetypes the mummy is one of the most […]

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Monster Theory: Culture, Monstrousness and Ourselves

September 19th, 2008 | Posted in cultures, monster theory, monsters

As I searched Amazon.com for reading materials related to the fantastic to add to my wishlist the description of Monster Theory: Reading Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) struck me as intriguing: “Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park. “We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key […]

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Gilmore: Anthropology and Monsters in Cultural Imagination

April 20th, 2008 | Posted in anthropology, cultures, David Gilmore, monsters

In a previous post I mentioned the work of Dr. David Gilmore, an anthropologist who teaches at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), an interesting book that provides an anthropological perspective on monsters in various cultures. Dr. […]

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An Anthropologist Considers Our Monsters

April 8th, 2008 | Posted in anthropology, Constructing Horror, David Gilmore, monsters

A recent e-newsletter from the Constructing Horror website introduced an interesting topic: “The beasts of past days have given birth to a new kind of creature. In movies like Saw and 28 Days Later, the monsters are powerful and horrifying. But the concept of evil has been turned around on the audiences and what once […]

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Timothy Beal: Religion and Its Monsters

March 12th, 2008 | Posted in Journal of Religion and Film, monsters, Timothy Beal

Timothy K. Beal is Florence Harkness Professor of Religion and director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. He has published eight books, including Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith (Beacon, 2005), which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice […]

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