Monsters

John Michael Greer Archdruid

photo credit: Sara Greer

Author Biography

Born in the gritty Navy town of Bremerton, Washington and raised in the south Seattle suburbs, I began writing about as soon as I could hold a pencil.
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Favorite Books

An eclectic mess of fiction and nonfiction: Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend's "Hamlet's Mill," M. John Harrison's "The Pastel City," John Michell's "The View Over Atlantis" (a grand visionary prose poem too often read as fact), Edgar Pangborn's "Davy," Theodore Roszak's "Where the Wasteland Ends," J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," and Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History," among too many others.

What I'm Reading

Mircea Eliade's "The Myth of the Eternal Return," Edwin Way Teale's entomological classic "Grassroot Jungles," and a decades-old programmed instructional text on using an oscilloscope by Charles H. Roth Jr.

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Synopsis:

Traditional lore from around the world describes monstrous beings - ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and many others - that exist in a twilight realm on the edges of ordinary reality. Dismissed as superstitions by contemporary science, and used as fodder for popular culture and the entertainment industry, yet still encountered by people in modern industrial societies, these denizens of the world of the weird remain a focus of fascination and fear today. Monsters explores the facts, the fancies, and the folk traditions surrounding monstrous beings of many kinds. Come take a walk where the wild things are!

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