The Monster's Corner

The Monster's CornerAuthor: Christopher Golden ISBN: 9780749957858 Publisher: Little Brown Year first published: 27 Sep 2011 Pages: 400 Format: Paperback softback In most stories we get the perspective of the hero, the ordinary, the everyman, but we are all the hero of our own tale, and so it must be true for legions of monsters, from Lucifer to Mordred, from child thieving fairies to Frankenstein's monster and the Wicked Witch of the West. From our point of view, they

Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year 'the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country' be sacrificed to a sea-monster

Alice has hated her brother

danger and romance

and inventing cool items

Her ambition withstands the dreadful facilities and uncivilised hours that might drive a lesser woman out of the job

and the emotions of an ant

Tourists are disappearing at an alarming rate

Spontaneous Human Combustion continues to plague the world

changed but still recognisable

Josh O'Connor

He discovered the primitive theocracy of Serenein by accident and now he wants it to take its place in human-space

Starting from Ondaatje's beginnings as a poet