Monsters, both real and imagined, are bound up with our feelings of insecurity and our responses to those anxieties. Masculine audacity and bravado is the refl ex response to vulnerability.

Monsters are most dangerous when you don’t know they are there. If you stubbornly try to prove that f(x) = x is the only solution when it isn’t, you are destined to fail. On the flip side, if you …

Human-like robots are experienced as monsters. And so-called transhumanists who attempt to “enhance” themselves by merging themselves with technology – who try to become cyborgs – …

Each of these monsters is used by Shakespeare, Shelley, Wilde, and Ishiguro to represent the various threats to the society, nation, culture, and values of their respective time periods. Not …

Monsters are gigantic, uncontrol-lable creatures, and to continue inciting fear within our hearts by threatening our sense of security, the monsters of our childhood must grow with us.

Practical Guide To Monsters ... in cultures around the world. From the towering giants of mythology to the creeping horrors of folklore, these creatures have captured our imaginations …

All is channelled into emo-tional expression through language and in particular through metaphor. Monsters, in addition, put into words feelings that we struggle to express ourselves.