Once upon a time, humanity stood naked and armed with only a stick against a world raging with vicious predators. Paul A. Trout theorizes with elegant persuasiveness that this long night of falling prey was instrumental in the genesis of our folklore and fears. Building on Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth, Trout teases out the evolutionary wiring of our narratives about monsters, from the many-headed Hydra to the ferocious Griffin.
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