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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
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1 online resource (490 entries) : 40 images ; digital files. |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- List of entries -- Introduction -- A: Angel; Animals, Monstrous; Arabian Nights, Monsters In The -- B: Banshee; Basilisk; Bates, Norman; Bathory, Countess; Beast, (Beauty and the); Behemoth; Bell Witch, The; Bible, Monsters In The; Bigfoot; Birds, Giant; Blair Witch; Blob, The; Body; Bronze Horseman; Brownie; Bunyip -- C: Caliban; Carmilla; Cenobites; Centaur; Cerberus; Children, Monstrous; Children's Literature, Monsters In; Chimera; Christine; Chucky; Chupacabra; Circe; Cockatrice; Collins, Barnabas; Creature from the Black Lagoon, The; Cryptid; Cyborg; Cyclops -- D: Damned Thing, The; Dante, Monsters In; Death, Personified; Demons; Medieval Demons; British and Irish Demons; North American Demons; European and Russian Demons; African and Caribbean Demons; South Asian Demons; Chinese Demons; Japanese Demons; Devil Bug; Devil, The; Dinosaur; Div; Djinn and Genie; Donestre; Doppelganger; Dracula; Dragon; Dungeons & Dragons, Monsters In; Dvoinik; Dwarf; Dweller on the Threshold; Dybbuk -- E: Elemental; Elf; Empousa; Extraterrestrial -- F: Fairy; Faun and Satyr; Fly, The; Frankenstein's Monster; Furies -- G: Gargantua and Pantagruel; Gargoyle; Ghost; Classical and Medieval Ghost; European and Russian Ghost; Great Britain and Ireland's Ghosts; United States and Canadian Ghosts; Latin American Ghosts; African and the Caribbean Ghosts; South Asian Ghosts; Southeast Asian Ghosts; China's Ghosts; Japan's Ghosts; Ghoul; Giant; Gibbelin; Goblin; Godzilla; Golem; Gorgons; Gray, Dorian; Gremlin; Grendel and Grendel's Mother; Griffin -- H: Harpy; Harry Potter, Monsters In; Haunted House; Headless Horseman, The; Hermaphrodite; Hippogriffin; Homunculus; Hop-Frog; Horla, The; Hyde, Edward; Hydra -- I: Imp; Incubus/Succubus; Invisible Man, The -- J: Jabberwock; Jack the Ripper; Johnson, Henry -- K: Kappa; King Kong; Kitsune; Koran, Monsters In The; Kraken; Krueger, Freddy -- L: Lamia; Lecter, Hannibal; Leprechaun ; Lestat de Lioncourt ; Leviathan ; Lilith ; Llorona, La; Loch Ness Monster; Lovecraft, Monsters In -- M: Maenad; Mahbhrata, Monsters In; Manitou; Manticore; Marsh, Arabella; Matilda; Medusa; Melmoth the Wanderer; Mephistopheles; Mermaid/Merman; Micromegas; Minotaur; Moby Dick; Moloch; Monkey King; Mummy; Mutant and Freak; Myers, Michael -- |
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N: Nick of the Woods; Nosferatu -- O: Objects, Animate; Oboroten; Ogopogo; Ogre; Oni -- P: Pan; Parasite; Pegasus; Phantom of the Opera, The; Phoenix; Pinhead; Pixie; Plants, Monstrous; Poltergeist; Psychopath -- Q: Qilin; Quasimodo -- R : Races, Monstrous ; Robot; Ruthven, Lord -- S: Samsa, Gregor; Sandman, The; Scylla and Charybdis; Sea Monsters; Shapeshifter; Shuten; Siren; Skeleton; Sphinx, The; Swift, Jonathan, Monsters In (Gulliver) -- T: Tanuki; Tengu; Tiamat; Titan; Tolkien, Monsters In; Triffid; Troglodyte; Troll; Typhoeus -- U: Upyr -- V: Vampire; Varney the Vampire; Vaughan, Helen; Video Games, Monsters In; Virus; Voorhees, Jason -- W: Wandering Jew, The; Werewolf; Wild Things; Windigo; Witch/Wizard; Witches and Wizards in European Literature and Film; British Witches and Wizards; Witches and Wizards in Russian Literature and Film; Witches and Wizards in US Literature and Film; Witches and Wizards in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Film; African and Caribbean Witches and Wizards; Women, Monstrous; Wraith -- Y: Yowie -- Z: Ziz; Zombie. |
Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
Summary |
From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly market. |
Form |
Also available in print. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
Subject |
Monsters in literature -- Encyclopedias.
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Monsters in motion pictures -- Encyclopedias.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew, editor.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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Added Title |
Encyclopedia of literary and cinematic monsters. |
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Literary and cinematic monsters. |
Other Form: |
Print version: 1409425622 9781409425625 (DLC) 2012047426 xiv, 625 pages : illustrations |
ISBN |
9781409425625 hardback : alk. paper |
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9781409425632 ebook |
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9781472400604 epub |
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9781784029418 electronic version |
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