Collection
Beautiful Monsters
Vampires, strange bodies, and the uneasy line between people and monsters.
Theme study
What makes a monster?
Vampires, sea gods, the undead, and people who are more frightening than any creature. Look past the label and decide who deserves your trust.
Genre guide
The vampire changes its politics
Follow the vampire from intimate intrusion and foreign threat to survival science, confession, dependent communities, and class. Nine books keep changing who can describe the monster and whose hunger receives sympathy. Read this as a comparison, not a continuous story.
Genre guide
Body horror: somebody thinks they own you
Move from created life and scientific violence to transformed workers, spectacle, appetite, inherited power, social estrangement, and commercial beauty. Eight books connect bodily horror with the systems that claim a body as useful property.