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.

Referenced Works:

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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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