List of FiguresAcknowledgementsContributor biographiesIntroduction: Monsters and Change, Yasmine Musharbash and Geir Henning Presterudstuen1. Monsters and Fear of Highway Travel in Ancient Greece and Rome, Debbie Felton2. Gods as Monsters: Insatiable Appetites, Exceeding Interpretations and A Surfeit of Life, Indira Arumugam3. Pangkarlangu, Wonder, Extinction, Yasmine Musharbash4. Decline and Resilience of Eastern Penan Monsters, Mikael Rothstein5. Monster Mash: What Happens When Aboriginal Monsters are Co-Opted into the Mainstream, Christine Judith Nicholls6. Margt byr i thokunni - What Dwells in the Mist? Helena Onnudottir and Mary Hawkins7. Bird/Monsters and Contemporary Social Fears in the Central Desert of Australia, Georgia Curran8. The Nine-Night Siege: Kurdaitcha at the Interface of Warlpiri/Non-Indigenous Relations, Joanne Thurman9. Monsters, Place, and Murderous Winds in Fiji, Geir Henning Presterudstuen10. Terror and the Territory Cults: Pregnancy and Power in Monsoon Asia, Holly High11. Drawing in the Margins: My Son's Arsenal of Monsters - (Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood, Rozanna LilleyAfterword: Scenes from the Monsterbiome, Michael Dylan FosterBibliography Index