Fabulous Monsters by Alberto Manguel
A luminous, erudite exploration of the figures that have haunted our stories, tracing monsters from myth and folklore through to modern fiction and showing how they function as mirrors of human fears, desires and social anxieties. The book considers monsters as hybrid, liminal beings—outsiders who test the boundaries of language, identity and morality—and reads them as indispensable to narrative and to the ways communities imagine themselves. Combining literary history, close readings and personal reflection, it argues that monsters reveal as much about their creators and readers as they do about the monstrous, illuminating the ethical and imaginative work that lies at the heart of storytelling.
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