An eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview-now in paperback. This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons …
Before Bella and Edward; Stefan and Damon Salvatore; and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, there was Lestat and Louis, The Lost Boys, and Buffy Summers. Before True Blood and Let …
Trolls lurk under bridges waiting to eat children, threaten hobbits in Middle-Earth, and invade the dungeons of Hogwarts. Often they are depicted as stupid, slow, and ugly …
People have been fascinated by merpeople and merfolk since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer's Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and the film Splash, …
Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic-and how we might mend it. Early human relationships with …
