Sunday, February 04, 2018

Fantasy Quote of the Week

The word "monster" is monstrously misused and misunderstood. In the popular imagination it conjures up lurid penny dreadful fantasies of mass murderers, slasher movies, bug-eyed aliens from distant galaxies. But these horrors have little to do with genuine monstrosity. Things from outer space are not monsters. King Kong was not a monster. Neither was Dracula. The Creature from the Black Lagoon might just possibly been a monster, but the creature in Frankenstein most definitely was not. Quasimodo, on the other hand, almost certainly was.
--Geoff Nicholson, "Making Monsters"

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