Download or read book A Guidebook to Monsters written by Ryan J. Stark and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryan J. Stark surveys the classic monsters in great literature and film, television, the Bible, and, perhaps unexpectedly, the world in which we live. Monsterdom is real, Stark observes, but often hidden beneath the concealment spell of modern secular thought. This guidebook aims to break that spell, and, if so, to confirm once more a world that brims with high strangeness, or what Christian philosophers have always called “reality.” The book appeals to those who study the paranormal dimensions of religion and horror, broadly imagined. The clergy will also find it helpful, as will players of monster-riddled video games.