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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Extraordinary Beings | |
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| Phobias | |
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| Repulsion and Attraction | |
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| Inhuman | |
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| Unthinkable | |
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| Unmanageable | |
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| The Literal and the Symbolic | |
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| Ancient Monsters | |
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| Alexander Fights Monsters in India | |
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| Embellishing | |
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| Manliness | |
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| Monsters Are Nature's Playthings | |
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| Griffins | |
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| Monstrous Bones | |
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| Natural History and Credulity | |
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| Monstrous Races | |
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| Hermaphrodites and Man-headed Oxen | |
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| In-between Beings | |
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| Reason and Superstition | |
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| Aristotle's Monsters | |
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| Phantom Images | |
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| Monstrous Desire | |
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| Plato's Monster | |
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| Monstrous Mother | |
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| Medieval Monsters: Messages from God | |
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| Biblical Monsters | |
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| God's Lackeys | |
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| The Apocalypse | |
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| Giants | |
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| Do Monsters Have Souls? | |
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| Monsters and a Creator God | |
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| Baptizing the Monstrous Races | |
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| The Descent of Monsters | |
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| Alexander's Gates | |
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| The Monster Killer | |
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| "I Have Known Much Peril" | |
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| Tolkien's Tragic Beowulf | |
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| Possessing Demons and Witches | |
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| St. Anthony Fights the Demons | |
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| Witches | |
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| The Witch Hunter Illusion or Reality? | |
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| Monstrous Desires Revisited | |
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| Driving Out the Demons | |
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| Scientific Monsters: The book of Nature is Riddled with Typos | |
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| Natural History, Freaks, and Nondescripts | |
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| The Hydra | |
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| Eradicating the Fantastic | |
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| Responding to the Marvelous | |
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| A Mischievous Taxidermist | |
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| Freaks | |
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| The Medicalization of Monsters | |
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| Monstrous Births | |
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| Pregnant Women Should Not Look upon Monsters | |
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| Monsters and the Mechanization of Nature | |
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| Frankenstein | |
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| John Hunter's Monsters | |
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| Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's Teratology | |
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| William Lawrence and the Headless Children | |
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| Darwin's Mutants | |
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| Monsters and Transmutation | |
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| No Monstrous Jumps in Nature | |
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| Mutationism and Hopeful Monsters | |
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| Alberch, Gould, and the Return of the Monsters | |
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| Evo-Devo | |
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| Inner Monsters: The Psychological Aspects | |
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| The Art of Human Vulnerability: Angst and Horror | |
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| Fear and Cognitive Mismatch | |
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| Angst and Fear | |
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| Freud | |
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| Torture Porn | |
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| Creeping Flesh | |
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| Criminal Monsters: Psychopathology, Aggression, and the Malignant Heart | |
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| Monsters in the Headlines | |
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| Leopold and Loeb | |
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| Rage and Aggression | |
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| Monstrous Desire Revisited | |
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| Cold Detachment | |
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| The Causes of Psychopathology | |
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| Judging and Managing the Monsters | |
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| Monsters Today and Tomorrow | |
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| Torturers, Terrorists, and Zombies: The Products of Monstrous Societies | |
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| Xenophobia and Race | |
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| Theoretical Xenophobia | |
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| Instinctual | |
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| Xenophobia | |
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| Monstrous Civilizations | |
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| Pathological Societies | |
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| Monsters from the Oppressed Classes | |
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| Monsters of Ideology Deconstructing Monsters | |
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| Future Monsters: Robots, Mutants, and Posthuman Cyborgs | |
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| Mutants and Robots | |
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| Cyborgs | |
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| Disembodied Minds Playing God: Biotechnology | |
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| Are Monsters in the Eye of the Beholder? | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |