Emily and Megan join Ian for a conversation about our culture's fascination with the monstrous. They discuss how we progressed from the beasts of Greek and Anglo-Saxon mythology all the way to love-struck vampires and werewolves, and they ask why it is that humans remain so intrigued with the mystery and danger of the Other.

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• The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

  
  



• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

  
  



• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  
  



• Dracula by Bram Stoker

  
  



• Ovid’s Metamorphoses

  
  



• Beowulf

  
  



• Grimm’s Fairytales

  
  



• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

  
  



• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

  
  



• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

  
  



• Coraline (2009)

  
  



• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

  
  



• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

  
  



• Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

  
  



• The Oath by Frank Peretti

  
  



• The Cooper Kids Adventures by Frank Peretti

  
  



• This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti

  
  



• The Dark by Lemony Snicket and John Klassen

  
  



• Macbeth by William Shakespeare

  
  



• Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories

  
  



• The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

  
  



• Fairytale by Stephen King

  
  



• Stranger Things (Netflix original)

  
  



• Wednesday (Netflix original)

  
  

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