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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2015-02-16 10:30 pm

Literary Bestiary

the monsters and creatures that go into fiction. . . .

One panelist explained that his goblins, like the rest of the less familiar creatures in his work, came from Pliny. Based on a theory that we had contact with a world with such beings every thousand years.

The alien, the strange monster -- and then the more eerie half-human one.

And how monsters get altered for the time. After all, modern day zombies are medieval vampires, but the original zombie, who isn't a danger to meet but to become, doesn't appear in modern fiction.

The usefulness of zombies for guilt-free killing.