A starter bibliography for Cultural Teratology / Monster Studies

I. ARTICLES ON JSTOR

Rudolf Wittkower Marvels of the East. A Study in the History of Monsters

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes > Vol. 5 (1942), pp. 159-197
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Lorraine Daston What Can Be a Scientific Object? Reflections on Monsters and

Meteors
Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences > Vol. 52, No. 2 (Nov.,
1998), pp. 35-50
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Pnina Werbner The Limits of Cultural Hybridity: On Ritual Monsters, Poetic

Licence and Contested Postcolonial Purifications
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute > Vol. 7, No. 1 (Mar., 2001), pp.
133-152
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Georges Coppel Equivocal Links between Art and Science: When Strictness Sleeps,
Words Engender Epistemological Monsters
Leonardo > Vol. 27, No. 3, Art and Science Similarities, Differences and
Interactions: Special Issue (1994), pp. 203-205
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Michel Beaujour The Unicorn in the Carpet

Yale French Studies > No. 45, Language as Action (1970), pp. 52-63
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Nelson Goodman Realism, Relativism, and Reality

New Literary History > Vol. 14, No. 2, On Convention: II (Winter, 1983), pp. 269-
272
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 II. BOOKS & THESES

Botting, Fred, Gothic, London ; New York : Routledge, 1996

Hurley, Kelly, The gothic body : sexuality, materialism, and degeneration at the fin
de siècle, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004

Miles, Robert, Gothic writing, 1750-1820 : a genealogy, Manchester, U.K. ; New

York, NY : New York, NY : Manchester University Press

Barker, Martin, A haunt of fears : the strange history of the British horror comics
campaign / Martin Barker, London : Pluto, 1984

Gelder,Ken ed. The horror reader, London; New York : Routledge, 2000

Gelder, Ken: Reading the Vampire

Waller, Gregory The living and the undead: from Stoker's Dracula to Romero's Dawn
of the dead, Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1986

Clover, Carol, Men, women, and chain saws: gender in the modern horror film,
London : British Film Institute, c1992

Edmundson, Mark, Nightmare on Main Street: angels, sadomasochism, and the

culture of Gothic, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997

Skal, David Screams of reason: mad science and modern cultureNew York :
W.W.Norton, c1998

Holmberg, Carl Bryan, Sexualities and popular culture, Thousand Oaks : Sage
Publications, c1998

Nina Auerbach & U.C. Knoepflmacher eds., Forbidden journeys : fairy tales and
fantasies by Victorian women writers, Chicago : University of Chicago
Press, 1992

III. MONSTER WEBSITES

A. http://www.monstrous.com/
Large Website. Interesting Forum. Popular culture. Inside, you will find:

- http://monsters.monstrous.com/
Interesting for its who’s who. Embowlderised.

- http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Claim to be the ultimate online encyclopedia of monsters in myth, magic and
legend

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B. http://www.wickedness.net/
The on-line academic resource for exploring perspectives on evil and human
wickedness. Inside you will find:

- http://www.wickedness.net/projects.htm
Conferences and their related free online publications, Perspectives on Evil and
Human Wickedness, Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil., Evil, Law
and the State, Fear, Horror and terror, Health and Death.
1. to provide a comprehensive forum which is committed to promoting inter-
disciplinary and multi-disciplinary explorations of, and perspectives on evil
and wickedness.
2. to make available to scholars, researchers, and any one interested a set of
research tools that bring together a wide variety of materials and resources
which relate to this subject.

C. http://www.strangescience.net/index.htm

Paleontology, philosophy, literature and science, and collection of old illustrations and
information assembled by an ordinary Web user.

- http://www.strangescience.net/goof.htm In the goof gallery, there is an

interesting array of monstrous deeds, thoughts and pseudo-discoveries.
- http://www.strangescience.net/stmons.htm Creatures to weird to fit
anywhere… And philosophic reflections on them.

IV. ONLINE BOOKS

http://books.google.com/books?
id=x4zzDjb7RTUC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=taxonomy+monsters&source=web
&ots=FF1GlDu9Wv&sig=OKdBmscLrzq2cUwJsgFfcQX70oA#PPP1,M1
Erika Hess, Literary Hybrids: Indeterminacy in Medieval & Modern French
Narrative, Routledge, 2003
- Online book, great for the basics

http://books.google.com/books?
id=zIl6uCu5Xh4C&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=taxonomy+monsters&source=web&o
ts=X5LJzRRGVC&sig=tVGpJ5Ny5NjBy450E4kX6NynyaY#PPP1,M1
David D. Gilmore, Monsters Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of
Imaginary Terrors, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

http://kk.org/outofcontrol/contents.php
Kevin Kelly, Out of Control, The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the
Economic World
- Contemporary societal monstrosities

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http://www.dan.sperber.com/hybrids.htm
Dan Sperber, Why are perfect animals, hybrids, and monsters food for symbolic
thought? (In Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 8-2, (1996) 143-169 - Revised
English version of "Pourquoi les animaux parfaits, les hybrides et les monstres sont-
ils bons à penser symboliquement?" L'Homme, XV (2) 1975) 5-24)

- Ethno-zoological teratology

http://books.google.com/books?
id=MVMtaeTY3CcC&pg=PA250&lpg=PA250&dq=traite+de+teratologie&source=w
eb&ots=-KM0vJeUOC&sig=eXg4YuhILiagR9RcBoa6C8IGTNQ#PPR1,M1Laura
Lunger Knoppers, Joan B. Landes, eds., Monstrous Bodies/political Monstrosities in
Early Modern Europe, Cornell Univerity Press, 2004

http://books.google.com/books?id=-
BwUGDw1pQcC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=taxonomy+monsters&source=web&
ots=hMSXR7X3WR&sig=pBgMC6WKrAtEg2366pOyi2542qg#PPP10,M1
Toby A. Appel, The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before
Darwin, OUP, 1987
- French scientific controversy that focused the attention of naturalists in the
first decades of the nineteenth century on the conflicting claims of teleology,
morphology, and evolution, which ultimately contributed to the making of
Darwin's theory. This history describes not only the scientific dimensions of
the controversy andits impact on individuals and institutions, but also
examines the meaning of the debate for culture and society in the years before
Darwin.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=UVajWs-
TtMUC&pg=PA219&dq=traite+de+teratologie&sig=VFT9WD_4FLeDmlq8MhAl9N
77DpA#PPP1,M1
Alice Domurat Dreger Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Harvard
Univeristy Press,

http://books.google.ie/books?
id=DPM8z2yDt2cC&pg=PA202&dq=traite+de+teratologie&sig=ruULKokR9cEa7G
9S0mtQUIjdPGw#PPR1,M1
Jan Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, Tauris Publisher, 2003
- Before museums there were cabinets of medical curiosities

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CRYPTOZOOLOGY : THE STUDY OF UNKNOWN, BIZARRE,
MYTHOLOGICAL, AND ARCANE ANIMALS

Benwell, Gwen, and Arthur Waugh. Sea Enchantress: The Tale of the Mermaid and
Her Kin. London: Hutchinson, 1961.

Brookesmith, Peter, ed. Creatures from Elsewhere: Weird Animals That No-One Can
Explain. London: Orbis Publishing, 1984. Anthology of articles from The
Unexplained. Includes man-beasts, weird winged creatures, sea monsters, lake
monsters, merfolk, and werewolves.

China Reconstructs. China's Yeti and Other Monsters. Beijing: China Reconstructs
Press, 1988.

Dmitriyev, Yuri. Man and Animals. Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1984. Translation
of Russian work published in 1983. One chapter about cryptozoology, including the
Tatzelwurm, giant anacondas, lake monsters, and sea serpents.

Eberhart, George M. Monsters: A Guide to Information on Unaccounted-for

Creatures, Including Bigfoot, Many Water Monsters, and Other Irregular Animals.
New York: Garland, 1983.

Gould, Charles. Mythical Monsters. New York: Crescent Books/Crown Publishers,

1989. Chapters on dragons, sea serpents, and the unicorn.

Hall, Mark A. Thunderbirds: The Living Legend of Giant Birds. Bloomington, MN:
Hall, 1988. Legends and modern sightings of giant North American birds.

Hall, Mark A. Natural Mysteries: Monster Lizards, English Dragons, and Other
Puzzling Animals. Bloomington, MN: Hall, 1989. Sequel to previous entry. America's
Great Swamps, Giant Lizards, and more.

Heuvelmans, Bernard. On the Track of Unknown Animals. New York: Hill & Wang,
1958.

Heuvelmans, Bernard. In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents. New York: Hill & Wang,
1968.

Joyner, Graham C. The Hairy Man of South Eastern Australia. Canberra: Joyner,
1977.

Ley, Willy. Exotic Zoology. New York: Bonanza Books/Crown Publishers, 1987.
Reprint of Ley's 1959 book. Includes Yeti, Kraken, sea serpents, Mokele-Mbembe,
and coelacanth.

McEwan, Graham J. Mystery Animals of Britain and Ireland. London: Robert Hale,
1986. Mystery cats, sea serpents, Nessie and other lake monsters, black dogs, the
Owlman of Mawnan, and the Brentford Griffin.

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Miller, Marc E.W. Chasing Legends: An Adventurer's Diary. Stelle, IL: Adventurers
Unlimited Press/Publishers Network, 1990. Stories from the author's travels,
including Mokele-Mbembe, Yeti, Egyptian curses, and voodoo.

Newton, Michael. Monsters, Mysteries and Man. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley,

1979. Unknown hominoids, extant dinosaurs, sea and lake monsters, vampires,
werewolves, UFOs.

Reinstadt, Randall A. Mysterious Sea Monsters of California's Central Coast. Carmel,

CA: Ghost Town Publications, 1979. Sea serpents, sea monsters, giant octopods, and
other unidentified marine life.

Roberts, Andy. Cat Flaps! A Survey of Mystery Cats in the North of England.
Brighouse, West Yorkshire: Brigantia Books, 1987. Britain's big cat scares, plus cats
and black dogs in British folklore.

Screeton, Paul. The Lambton Worm and Other Northumbrian Dragon Legends.
London: Zodiac House Publications, 1978. Explores possible factual basis for the
British dragons.

Shuker, Karl P.N. Mystery Cats of the World: From Blue Tigers to Exmoor Beasts.
London: Robert Hale, 1989. Assorted mystery cats from around the world.

Time-Life. Mysterious Creatures. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1988. From the
series "Mysteries of the Unknown." Mostly marine monsters, Nessie, Bigfoot, and
Yeti. Also includes section on monsters in film.

Trotti, Hugh H. Beasts and Battles: Fact in Legend and History? New York:
Rivercross Publishing, 1989. Chapters on the Western dragon and the werewolf.