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Table of Contents:

• A Matter of Life - (1960) - short story
• The Model Wife - (1961) - short fiction
• Broomstick Ride - (1957) - short story
• The Skull of the Marquis de Sade - (1945) - short story
• Memo to a Movie-Maker - (1961) - short story
• The Thinking Cap - (1953) - novelette
• The Shoes - (1942) - short story
• The Man Who Collected Poe - (1951) - short story
• The Ghost-Writer - (1940) - short story
• The Man Who Murdered Tomorrow - (1960) - short story
• "Psycho"-logical Bloch - (1962) - essay by Sam Moskowitz

Finalist for the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies

Ogres and giants, bogeymen and bugaboos embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular fiction, from tales such as "Jack the Giant Killer" to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, from the Titans of Greek mythology to the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, from Frankenstein to Men In Black.

Following her brilliant study of fairy tales, From the Beast to the Blonde, Marina Warner's rich, enthralling new book explores the ever increasing presence of such figures of male terror, and the strategems we invent to allay the monsters we conjure up -- from horror stories to lullabies and jokes. Travelling from ogres to cradle songs, from bananas to cannibals, Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling with vigorous intelligence, creative originality and relish, the myths and fears which define our sensibilites.

Illustrated with a wealth of images -- from the beautiful and the bizarre to the downright scary -- this is a tour de force of scholarship and imagination.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Prologue
• Introduction

Part One - Scaring

• I. "Here Comes the Bogeyman!"
• Reflection: Goya: "Saturn Devouring His Child"
• II. "My Father He Ate Me..."
• Reflection: The Nymphaeum of the Emperor Tiberius
• III. The Polyp and the Cyclops
• IV. The Devil's Banquet
• Reflection: The Feast of Corpus Christi, 1996: The Patum of Berga, Catalonia
• V. "Hoc Est Corpus"
• VI. "Now... We Can Begin to Feed"
• VII. "Terrors Properly Applied"

Part Two - Lulling

• Reflection: Caravaggio: "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt"
• VIII. "Sing Now Mother... What Me Shall Befall"
• IX. "Herod the King, in His Raging"
• X. "And Thou, Oh Nightengale"

Part Three - Making Mock

• Reflection: Louis Desprez: "The Chimera"
• XI. "In the Genre of the Monstrous"
• XII. Circe's Swine: "Wizard and Brute"
• XIII. "All My Business Is My Song"
• XIV. "Fee Fie Fo Fum"
• XV. "Of the Paltriness of Things"
• Reflection: Albert Eckhout: Eight Brazilian Portraits
• XVI. "Going Bananas"

• Epilogue: "Snip! Snap! Snip!"
• Picture Section
• Notes

Alice in Wonderland meets Wolves of Wall Street in Jerry Jay Carroll's brilliant and witty debut novel.

William B. Ingersol sits in an office high above Wall Street conducting cut-throat corporate takeovers. Just another day at work, it seems, business as usual. He puts his head down on his desk and wakes up as a big dog, trying to survive in a strange new world of wizards, fairies and monsters. To get back home, he has to choose between good and evil, devil or angel. That's not as easy as you might think for a man used to playing with a stacked deck, not to mention both sides against the middle.