books.google.com.au - Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future....http://books.google.com.au/books/about/On_Monsters.html?id=ybpsPt7SAE8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareOn Monsters
