Monstrous!
Posted on October 26th, 2016
Booth Librarian Steve Brantley has selected a number of titles on the subject of fear, monsters and the monstrous in literature and film. The selections span a range from Beowulf and Bela Lugosi, to special effects makeup and “fantastic victoriana.” Most of the books are on display and available for checkout on the 3000 level corridor, but a few are e-books, accessible right here (see below). 
The full catalog list can be retrieved using the tag “monstrous” whenever you are viewing any one of the catalog records.
Any EIU library user can view a selected list of electronic encyclopedia entries from our collection of hundreds of reference e-books.
Monsters from: Gaster, Theodor H. “Monsters.” Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. Vol. 9. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 6163-6166. Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Dragons from: Grottanelli, Cristiano. “Dragons.” Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 2430-2434. Gale Virtual Reference Library
Horror Films from: “Horror Films.” Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Vol. 2. New York: Schirmer Reference, 2007. 391-399. Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Ghoul from: Bishop, Kyle William. “Ghoul.” Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth. Ed. June Michele Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonseca. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2014. 110-111. Gale Virtual Reference Library
Some ebooks to pique your interest:
The Monstrous List
- American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn Of the Millennium
- PN1995.9.H6 A385 2010
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- At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric Of Fear in Public Culture
- Ingebretsen, Edward J., 1950-
- P96.M62 U655 2001
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- Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein
- Adams, Carol J.
- PR5397.F73 A33 2007
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- Blood Read: The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
- PS374.V35 B58 1997
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- Caligari’s Children: The Film As Tale Of Terror
- Prawer, Siegbert Solomon, 1925-
- PN1995.9.H6 P68 1988
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- Classic Movie Monsters
- Glut, Donald F.
- PN1995.9.H6 G57
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- Complete Guide to Special Effects Makeup: [conceptual Creations by Japanese Makeup Artists
- PN2068 .C595 2008x
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- Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work
- Sova, Dawn B.
- PS2630 .S68 2007
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- Culture Of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid Of the Wrong Things
- Glassner, Barry,
- HN59.2 .G58 1999
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- Deformed and Destructive Beings: The Purpose Of Horror Films
- Ochoa, George.
- PN1995.9.H6 O25 2011
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- Deformed Discourse: The Function Of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature
- Williams, David (David Eliot), 1939-
- PN56.M55 W56x 1996
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- Draw 50 Beasties and Yugglies and Turnover Uglies and Things That Go Bump in the Night
- Ames, Lee J.
- 743 Am371
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- Encyclopedia Of Fantastic Victoriana
- Nevins, Jess.
- PR461 .N48x 2005
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- Encyclopedia Of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters
- Guiley, Rosemary.
- BF1556 .G86 2005
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- Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
- Olney, Ian.
- PN1995.9.H6 O46 2013
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- Fangoria’s 101 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen: A Celebration Of the World’s Most Unheralded Fright Flicks
- Lukeman, Adam.
- PN1995.9.H6 L84 2003
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- Frankenstein: A Cultural History
- Hitchcock, Susan Tyler.
- PR5397 .H58 2007
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- Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
- PR5397 .F7 1998c
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- From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America
- Braham, Persephone,
- PQ7081 .B679 2015
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- Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture
- GR581 .G46 2011
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- Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1764 to the Present
- Bloom, Clive.
- PR830.T3 B57 2010
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- Historical Dictionary Of Horror Cinema
- Hutchings, Peter.
- PN1995.9.H6 H836 2008
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- History Of Horrors: The Rise and Fall Of the House Of Hammer
- Meikle, Denis.
- PN1999.H3 M45 2001x
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- Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape
- Humphries, Reynold.
- PN1995.9.H6 H78 2006
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- Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film
- Jones, Darryl, 1967-
- PN56.H6 J66 2002x
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- Horror Genre: From Beelzebub to Blair Witch
- Wells, Paul, 1961-
- PN1995.9.H6 W455 2000x
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- Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-believe Violence
- Jones, Gerard, 1957-
- P94.5.C55 J66 2002
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- Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen
- Murray, Robin L.,
- PN1995.9.H6 M875 2016
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- Offensive Films
- Brottman, Mikita, 1966-
- PN1995.9.H6 B67 2005
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- Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
- Burgess, Michael, 1948-
- Z5917.S87 B872002
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- Screening the Marquis De Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film
- Hallam, Lindsay Anne, 1979-
- PN1995.9.H6 H342 2012
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- Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology Of Monsters
- Halberstam, Judith, 1961-
- PR830.T3 H27 1995
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- Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen: Making and Applying Prosthetics
- Debreceni, Todd.
- PN2068 .D43 2012
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- Terror and Everyday Life: Singular Moments in the History Of the Horror Film
- Crane, Jonathan Lake, 1959-
- PN1995.9.H6 C72 1994
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- They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning Of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction
- Bodart, Joni Richards.
- PS374.M544 B63 2012
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- Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia Of the Undead
- Melton, J. Gordon.
- BF1556 .M46 2011
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