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  • ADVANCE PRAISE FOR RELIGION AND ITS MONSTERS
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • IN MEMORY OF JOEL CLAYTON HURD
  • INTRODUCTION
    • FIGURE 1. The Bride of Frankenstein,
    • RELIGION AND ITS MONSTERS, MONSTERS AND THEIR RELIGION
    • PARADOX OF THE MONSTROUS
    • DEMONIZING AND DEIFYING
    • MONSTRUM TREMENDUM, MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM
  • PART ONE - RELIGION AND ITS MONSTERS
  • CHAPTER 1: CHAOS GODS
    • FRAGMENTS FROM THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
    • TO ORDER AND BACK
    • CHAOS MOTHER
    • THE CLOUDRIDER AND THE WARRIOR GODDESS
    • NO REST
  • CHAPTER 2: THE BIBLE AND HORROR
    • BIBLICAL MONSTERS AND MAD PROFESSORS
    • WATER PLAY OR WATER FIGHT
    • DISORIENTATION AND THEOLOGICAL HORROR
    • MONSTROUS ENEMIES
    • CONJURING
    • FIGURE 2. Job's night of terrors (Job 7:14)
  • CHAPTER 3: THE SLEEP OF WISDOM
    • JOB AND THE ABYSS OF SUFFERING
    • ABSENCE OF ALL REFUGE
    • DESIRING CHAOS
    • LYRICISM OF TERROR
    • FIGURE 3. Behemoth and Leviathan (Job 40-41).
  • CHAPTER 4: FROM THE WHIRLWIND
    • ROUSING GOD ROUSING LEVIATHAN
    • DIAPERED MONSTER
    • BEHOLD BEHEMOTH
    • DRAWING OUT LEVIATHAN
    • WHOLLY OTHER
    • DIVINE ABYSS
  • CHAPTER 5: DINNER AND A SHOW
    • WATCHING AND EATING MONSTERS IN RABBINIC TRADITION
    • SEAFARING TALES OF THE RABBIS
    • FRESH, FROZEN OR SALT-CURED
    • IS THIS MONSTER KOSHER?
    • JONAH'S UNDERSEA ADVENTURE
  • CHAPTER 6: TO THE DEVIL
    • APOCALYPSE
    • IT'S THE EDGE OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
    • DIABOLICAL DRAGON
    • THE MONSTER-MAKER'S BIBLE'S BIBLE
    • FROM BEOWULF TO DRACULA TO HARRY POTTER
    • FIGURE 5: The Cloisters Apocalypse (early fourteenth century), folio 20
    • FIGURE 6: The Cloisters Apocalypse (early fourteenth ce ntury), folio 35
  • PART TWO - MONSTERS AND THEIR RELIGION
  • CHAPTER 7: NEW MONSTERS IN OLD SKINS
    • MODERN CHAOS BATTLES
    • HOBBES' MORTALL GOD
    • THEOPHANY
    • FIGURE 7: Original title page to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathen (London: Andrew Crooke,1651),
    • BUT WHY LEVIATHAN?
    • AWE AND ORDER
    • HELLRAISER
    • FIGURE 8: Leviathan, Lord of the Labyrinth , in Clive Barker's Hellbound: Hellraiser II,
  • CHAPTER 8: OTHER GODS
    • ORIENTALISM AND ITS MONSTERS
    • THE WITCH'S MONKEYS
    • FIGURE 9: Commander of the Winged Monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, Copyright 1939
    • RAMA'S MONKEYS
    • FIGURE 10. Hanuman. South India, Chola period, 12th century.
    • HORRID CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY
    • DIABOLICAL MONSTERS
    • FIGURE 11: Le livre des merveilles, folio 55 versa, Marco Polo's dragons of Carajan .
    • FIGURE 12: Le livre des merveilles, folio 29 versa, Marco Polo's monsters of Merkites.
    • FIGURE 13: Le livre des merveilles , folio 106 , Odoric's cycocephales on the Nicobar islands.
    • FIGURE 14: Le livre des merveilles, folio 115 , Odoric's "peri lous valley".
    • FIGURE 15: Illustration of the God of Calicut by Jörg Breu the Elder in a 1515 Augsburg edition of Varthema, Die Ritterlich un[d] lobwirdig Rayss , i iii, John Carter BrownLibrary (repr. S cholars ' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1992).
    • SUBLIME MONSTERS
    • DISORIENTAL MONSTERS
  • CHAPTER 9: THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE
    • RITUAL PURITY AND DANGER IN DRACULA
    • THE COUNT'S RELIGION
    • LAWS PERTAINING TO BLOOD
    • FLESH OF MY FLESH, BLOOD OF MY BLOOD
    • RITUALS OF RESACRALIZATION
    • TRANSFUSION
    • ONE WEDDING AND A FUNERAL
    • LAST BATTLE
  • CHAPTER 10: SCREENING MONSTERS
    • MOVIE TIME, SACRED TIME
    • MONSTROUS REVELATIONS (NOSFERATU AND SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE)
    • FIGURE 16: Orlok in archway, Nosferatu, 1922 Prana-Film G.M.B.H.
    • FIGURE 17: Hieroglyphs in Nosferatu, 1922 Prana-Film G.M.B.H.
    • FIGURE 18. "l love you", Nosferatu, 1922 Prana-Film G.M.B.H
    • FIGURE 19: Orlok and Ellen, Nosferatu , 1922 Prana-Film G.M.B.H.
    • STAGE RITE (DRACULA)
    • FIGURE 20. Dracula, Copyright 1931, 1999 Universal Studios.
    • EXORCISM (METROPOLIS)
    • FIGURE 21: Central power house, Metropolis, 1926 Ufa.
    • FIGURE 22: MOLOCH! Metropolis, 1926 Ufa.
  • CHAPTER 11: ECOMONSTER
    • l AM BECOME DEATH
    • ECOHORROR ON SCREEN
    • DEMYTHOLOGIZING THE MONSTER
    • SHOOTING THE MONSTER
    • FIGURE 23. Partial shot of the monster, The Giant Behemoth, Copyright 1958 Allied Artists.
    • FIGURE 24. Full shot, The Giant Behemoth, Copyright 1958 Allied Artists.
    • THESE ARE OURSELVES
  • CHAPTER 12: OUR MONSTERS, OURSELVES
    • ISLAND OF THE MISFIT BOYS
    • FIGURE 25: Cover art for Misfits, Famous Monsters (Roadrunner Records, 1999)
    • BELA'S HIDEOUS PROGENY
    • FIGURE 26: Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley, The Bride af Frankenstein , Copyright 1935 Universal Studios.
    • FIGURE 27: Elsa Lanchester as the monster bride, The Bride af Frankenstein, Copyright 1935 Universal Studios.
    • CTHULHU MYTHOS
    • LOVECRAFT'S HIDEOUS PROGENY
    • FROM SCHOLARS TO THE CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CTHULHU
    • FIGURE 28: "Cthulhu is Coming! Are You Ready for the New Time?" Campus Crusade for Cthulhu website (by Joe Bethancourt, White Tree Productions).
    • HOMESICKNESS
    • FIGURE 29: The Bride of Frankenstein, Copyright 1935 Universal Studios.
  • CONCLUSION
    • HERE BE MONSTERS
    • WARNING
  • NOTES
    • INTRODUCTION
    • CHAPTER 1 - CHAOS GODS
    • CHAPTER 2 - THE BIBLE AND HORROR
    • CHAPTER 3 - THE SLEEP OF WISDOM
    • CHAPTER 4 - FROM THE WHIRLWIND
    • CHAPTER 5 - DINNER AND A SHOW
    • CHAPTER 6 - TO THE DEVIL
    • CHAPTER 7 - NEW MONSTERS IN OLD SKINS
    • CHAPTER 8 - OTHER GODS
    • CHAPTER 9 - THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE
    • CHAPTER 10 - SCREENING MONSTERS
    • CHAPTER 11 - ECOMONSTER
    • CHAPTER 12 - OUR MONSTERS, OURSELVES
    • CONCLUSION
  • INDEX
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