David Gilmore. Monsters, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors.(Book Review)

Utopian Studies | March 22, 2003| | Copyright

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 210 pp. $24.95.

AS THE TITLE of David Gilmore's new monograph indicates, this is a sweeping catalogue of sundry fiends from various cultures. Gilmore sees these imaginary beings, such as the North American Windigo, the Canadian Bigfoot, and the Japanese shokera, or "roof monster," as grotesque embodiments of human fear and subversive desires. Frequently hybrid (human-animal combinations), monsters are "sources of identification and awe as well as of horror, and they serve also as vehicles for the expiation of ...

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