Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professors Michael Chemers, left, and Renee Fox, co-directors of the Center For Monsters Studies at the University of California, ...

Something’s going on with our monsters. They used to feast on humans with abandon, burn our villages, prowl the margins of the map; now they’re seeking therapy. The fangs are still there, but they’re ...

Monsters are blurry beings—out-of-focus, liminal creatures between two categories. Bigfoot is man and ape, a category-­breaking bipedal primate. Werewolves are shape-shifters between humans and wolves ...