MONSTERS OF OUR OWN MAKING: THE PECULIAR PLEASURES OF FEAR

Reviewer Marina Warner (Writer Historian Cultural Critic and Novelist Fellow of All Souls College Oxford)

MONSTERS OF OUR OWN MAKING: THE PECULIAR PLEASURES OF FEAR
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Country
United States
Published
23 February 2007
Pages
453
ISBN
9780813191744

MONSTERS OF OUR OWN MAKING: THE PECULIAR PLEASURES OF FEAR

Reviewer Marina Warner (Writer Historian Cultural Critic and Novelist Fellow of All Souls College Oxford)

Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral traditions, and they continue to thrive amidst society’s ever-increasing attraction to the thrill of experiencing fear. Today many of us seek out horror movies, read thrillers and Gothic novels, and visit haunted houses, in our endless pursuit of the macabre and exciting. In Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear, Marina Warner explores the world of bogeys from their i

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