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Yes, you can access Primary Sources on Monsters by Asa Simon Mittman, Marcus Hensel, Asa Simon Mittman,Marcus Hensel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & History of Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Arc Humanities Press

Year

2018

eBook ISBN

9781942401223

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

History of Art

Index

Literature

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction: A Marvel of Monsters
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Bible
Hesiod, Theogony
Homer, The Odyssey, Odysseus and his Men Encounter the Cyclops
Bust of Polyphemus
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Lycaon and Cadmus
St. Augustine of Hippo, City of God
Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley)
The Wonders of the East
Donestre, Huntress, and Boar-Tusked Women
Beowulf
Modern Images of Grendel
Marie de France, Bisclavret
Völsunga saga (The Saga of the Volsungs)
The Life of Saint Christopher
Illumination of Saint Christopher
The Alliterative Morte Arthure
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Ambroise Paré, On Monsters
Renaissance Figures of Monsters
The Faerie Queene
The Tempest
Images of Caliban
A Discourse Concerning Prodigies: Wherein the Vanity of Presages by them is Reprehended, and their True and Proper Ends are Indicated
Paradise Lost
Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein Frontispiece
“William Wilson”
“Goblin Market”
Illustration of Buy From Us With A Golden Curl
“Jabberwocky”
Illustration of Jabberwocky
“The Damned Thing"
Dracula
Frontispiece to Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Ancient Sorceries”
“The Call of Cthulhu”
Sketch of Cthulhu
“Shambleau”
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“It!”
“Fever Dream”
“The Faceless Thing”
Grendel
“Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl”
Oryx and Crake
Slender Man
The SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation
Contributor Biographies

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