Religion and Its Monsters

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR RELIGION AND ITS MONSTERS......Page 2
Copyright......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 9
IN MEMORY OF JOEL CLAYTON HURD......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 13
FIGURE 1. The Bride of Frankenstein,......Page 14
PARADOX OF THE MONSTROUS......Page 16
DEMONIZING AND DEIFYING......Page 17
MONSTRUM TREMENDUM, MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM......Page 18
PART ONE - RELIGION AND ITS MONSTERS......Page 23
FRAGMENTS FROM THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST......Page 25
TO ORDER AND BACK......Page 26
CHAOS MOTHER......Page 28
THE CLOUDRIDER AND THE WARRIOR GODDESS......Page 31
NO REST......Page 33
BIBLICAL MONSTERS AND MAD PROFESSORS......Page 35
WATER PLAY OR WATER FIGHT......Page 37
DISORIENTATION AND THEOLOGICAL HORROR......Page 40
MONSTROUS ENEMIES......Page 42
CONJURING......Page 45
FIGURE 2. Job's night of terrors (Job 7:14)......Page 46
JOB AND THE ABYSS OF SUFFERING......Page 47
ABSENCE OF ALL REFUGE......Page 49
DESIRING CHAOS......Page 52
LYRICISM OF TERROR......Page 55
FIGURE 3. Behemoth and Leviathan (Job 40-41).......Page 58
ROUSING GOD ROUSING LEVIATHAN......Page 59
DIAPERED MONSTER......Page 60
BEHOLD BEHEMOTH......Page 61
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WHOLLY OTHER......Page 65
DIVINE ABYSS......Page 66
WATCHING AND EATING MONSTERS IN RABBINIC TRADITION......Page 69
SEAFARING TALES OF THE RABBIS......Page 70
FRESH, FROZEN OR SALT-CURED......Page 74
IS THIS MONSTER KOSHER?......Page 78
JONAH'S UNDERSEA ADVENTURE......Page 80
APOCALYPSE......Page 83
IT'S THE EDGE OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT......Page 84
DIABOLICAL DRAGON......Page 88
THE MONSTER-MAKER'S BIBLE'S BIBLE......Page 90
FROM BEOWULF TO DRACULA TO HARRY POTTER......Page 94
FIGURE 5: The Cloisters Apocalypse (early fourteenth century), folio 20......Page 96
FIGURE 6: The Cloisters Apocalypse (early fourteenth ce ntury), folio 35......Page 97
PART TWO - MONSTERS AND THEIR RELIGION......Page 99
MODERN CHAOS BATTLES......Page 101
HOBBES' MORTALL GOD......Page 103
THEOPHANY......Page 106
FIGURE 7: Original title page to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathen (London: Andrew Crooke,1651),......Page 107
BUT WHY LEVIATHAN?......Page 108
AWE AND ORDER......Page 110
HELLRAISER......Page 112
FIGURE 8: Leviathan, Lord of the Labyrinth , in Clive Barker's Hellbound: Hellraiser II,......Page 113
ORIENTALISM AND ITS MONSTERS......Page 115
THE WITCH'S MONKEYS......Page 116
FIGURE 9: Commander of the Winged Monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, Copyright 1939......Page 117
RAMA'S MONKEYS......Page 118
FIGURE 10. Hanuman. South India, Chola period, 12th century.......Page 119
HORRID CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY......Page 120
DIABOLICAL MONSTERS......Page 122
FIGURE 12: Le livre des merveilles, folio 29 versa, Marco Polo's monsters of Merkites.......Page 124
FIGURE 14: Le livre des merveilles, folio 115 , Odoric's "peri lous valley".......Page 125
FIGURE 15: Illustration of the God of Calicut by Jörg Breu the Elder in a 1515 Augsburg edition of Varthema, Die Ritterlich un[d] lobwirdig Rayss , i iii, John Carter BrownLibrary (repr. S cholars ' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1992).......Page 127
SUBLIME MONSTERS......Page 128
DISORIENTAL MONSTERS......Page 129
RITUAL PURITY AND DANGER IN DRACULA......Page 135
THE COUNT'S RELIGION......Page 136
LAWS PERTAINING TO BLOOD......Page 141
FLESH OF MY FLESH, BLOOD OF MY BLOOD......Page 143
TRANSFUSION......Page 146
ONE WEDDING AND A FUNERAL......Page 148
LAST BATTLE......Page 149
MOVIE TIME, SACRED TIME......Page 153
MONSTROUS REVELATIONS (NOSFERATU AND SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE)......Page 155
FIGURE 16: Orlok in archway, Nosferatu, 1922 Prana-Film G.M.B.H.......Page 157
FIGURE 17: Hieroglyphs in Nosferatu, 1922 Prana-Film G.M.B.H.......Page 158
FIGURE 19: Orlok and Ellen, Nosferatu , 1922 Prana-Film G.M.B.H.......Page 159
STAGE RITE (DRACULA)......Page 161
EXORCISM (METROPOLIS)......Page 163
FIGURE 22: MOLOCH!  Metropolis, 1926 Ufa.......Page 166
l AM BECOME DEATH......Page 171
ECOHORROR ON SCREEN......Page 173
DEMYTHOLOGIZING THE MONSTER......Page 174
SHOOTING THE MONSTER......Page 177
FIGURE 23. Partial shot of the monster, The Giant Behemoth, Copyright 1958 Allied Artists.......Page 179
FIGURE 24. Full shot, The Giant Behemoth, Copyright 1958 Allied Artists.......Page 181
THESE ARE OURSELVES......Page 182
ISLAND OF THE MISFIT BOYS......Page 185
FIGURE 25: Cover art for Misfits, Famous Monsters (Roadrunner Records, 1999)......Page 186
BELA'S HIDEOUS PROGENY......Page 187
FIGURE 26: Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley, The Bride af Frankenstein , Copyright 1935 Universal Studios.......Page 189
FIGURE 27: Elsa Lanchester as the monster bride, The Bride af Frankenstein, Copyright 1935 Universal Studios.......Page 190
CTHULHU MYTHOS......Page 191
LOVECRAFT'S HIDEOUS PROGENY......Page 197
FROM SCHOLARS TO THE CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CTHULHU......Page 198
FIGURE 28: "Cthulhu is Coming! Are You Ready for the New Time?" Campus Crusade for Cthulhu website (by Joe Bethancourt, White Tree Productions).......Page 201
HOMESICKNESS......Page 202
FIGURE 29: The Bride of Frankenstein, Copyright 1935 Universal Studios.......Page 204
HERE BE MONSTERS......Page 205
WARNING......Page 207
INTRODUCTION......Page 209
CHAPTER 1 - CHAOS GODS......Page 211
CHAPTER 2 - THE BIBLE AND HORROR......Page 214
CHAPTER 3 - THE SLEEP OF WISDOM......Page 216
CHAPTER 4 - FROM THE WHIRLWIND......Page 218
CHAPTER 5 - DINNER AND A SHOW......Page 219
CHAPTER 6 - TO THE DEVIL......Page 222
CHAPTER 7 - NEW MONSTERS IN OLD SKINS......Page 224
CHAPTER 8 - OTHER GODS......Page 226
CHAPTER 9 - THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE......Page 230
CHAPTER 10 - SCREENING MONSTERS......Page 232
CHAPTER 11 - ECOMONSTER......Page 236
CHAPTER 12 - OUR MONSTERS, OURSELVES......Page 237
CONCLUSION......Page 239
INDEX......Page 241
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