Juvenile and YA Fiction: Monster Stories

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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