Thought-provoking post by
sovay on Hammer's Horror of Dracula.
Vampire round-up:
--I tried watching an episode of Dark Shadows, the one where Barnabas Collins appears for the first time. It was rather fun, and Collins is an engaging vampire, rich, overdressed, and so courteous he makes you nervous. I can't say it inspired me with a wild urge to watch
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There was a two-headed duckling, stuffed and mounted, in that curiosity show at Arisia. I was very impressed. Apparently, even though conjoined twins may only happen in one case out of a million ducks, when you're working at a hatchery where 1,000 ducks a day hatch out, "a million" isn't such a big number anymore. I'd have liked it better if the ducks were still running around alive and well, though.
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I'd like to add another monster: the kind of literary critic who thinks in lists and categories (which would be most of the published kind).
We (the folks on this LJ) tend to consider the interstices.
In Cotton Mather's collections of Signs and Wonders (that meaning of Monster as demonstration), a two-headed lamb would have indicated bestiality by the farmer.
And thanks to the wonders of Googlebooks, I checked Mather's Magnalia Christi, and it's worth doing. Every meaning of "monster" is there--abnormal beast (the very paragraph that Lovecraft quoted in "The Unnameable"), witch, serial killer, heretic, racial Other. . .it's a paper in itself!
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