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Squidsquatch Monster Query
Over at the Talking Squid, there’s a Squidsquatch running — that is, “A new interview (almost) every day. A single question. The subject one day becomes interviewer the next.” I’ve just posted an answer to the question (asked by Chris Lawson): “Rob, I may be over-simplifying, but it seems to me that witches are mediaeval, werewolves are late feudal, vampires are Victorian, and apocalyptic flesh-eating zombies are late 20th century consumerist. What new monsters are in store for this coming century?” Go check out my answer.
. As you said, the modern werewolf mythos (with its concerns about infection, loss of control/return to animality, etc) is very much a product of films like The Wolf Man. I remember translating a simple version of a Roman werewolf story from Apuleis’s ‘The Golden Ass’, which has a quite different “fantasy ecology”.
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