"Monsters say something about human psychology, not the world." "They don't really exist, but they play a huge role in our mindscapes, in our dreams, stories, nightmares, myths and so on," says Matthias Classen, assistant professor of literature and media at Aarhus University in Denmark, who studies monsters in literature. Many academics agree that monsters lurk in the deepest recesses, they prowl through our ancestral minds appearing in the half-light, under the bed - or at the bottom of the sea. "This inhuman place makes human monsters," wrote Stephen King in his novel The Shining. What is it that draws us to these creatures? Sea monsters are the stuff of legend - lurking not just in the depths of the oceans, but also the darker corners of our minds.
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