Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters (35 page)

deadbeat dads,
160
,
161

DeBlois, Dean,
115

De Civitate Dei
(Augustine),
124

demons,
116
,
121–22
,
214

Dilophosaurus,
187

dinosaur footprints,
27

dinosaurs,
90
,
103
,
104
,
182–97

Diplodocus,
27
,
182

District 9
(film),
211

DNA,
16
,
19
,
170
,
185–86
,
194
,
195
,
197

dolphins,
36
,
53
,
88
,
196

Douyon, Lamarck,
144–45

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
184

Dracula
(Stoker),
151
n,
156–57

DragonHeart
(film),
116
,
118

dragons,
99–119
,
162
,
211–12

Dragons of Eden, The
(Sagan),
103–4

drowning,
80

Dürer, Albrecht,
21

eagles,
25
,
42–43
,
116

Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
59

earthquakes,
57
,
60–61
,
62
,
63
,
84
,
186

Eastwick, Paul,
172–73

Egypt,
113
,
117
,
150
,
203

elephant birds,
26–27

Ellis, David,
77

Emmerich, Roland,
203

Ephialtes,
128
,
130
,
132

Epic of Gilgamesh, The,
156

Eragon
(film),
115
,
118

E.T.,
210–11

Euripedes,
63–64
,
102

Evans, Arthur,
54–55

evolution,
15–16
,
36
,
46
,
72
,
77
,
148–49
,
170–71
,
195–96
,
200
,
201
,
217
,
218

Evolution,
148–49

Fast, Nathanael,
175–76

fear,
2–5
,
6
,
9
,
79–80

shock from,
68–69

of water predators,
94–95
,
98

femme fatales,
173

Finkel, Eli,
172–73

fire,
44–45
,
108
,
109–13
,
119

fire pit graves,
114

First Fossil Hunters, The
(Mayor),
14
,
38
,
116
n

First Punic War,
105–7

Florida Museum of Natural History,
94

fossils,
38–39
,
66–67
,
73
,
81

Frankenstein
(Shelley),
167–69
,
170
,
171
,
173–74
,
175
,
176–77
,
181
,
211
,
214

Fry, Bryan,
70

Füssli, Johann,
120–21
,
121
,
128

Fu-ts’ang,
114
,
116

Garden of Eden,
71
n

garlic,
149–53

Garuda,
28
,
29

Genesis,
165

genetic engineering,
48–50

Geoffrey of Monmouth,
107–8
,
123–24

Geological Survey, U.S.,
191

George, Saint,
99

geysers,
61

Ghostbusters
(film),
120
,
133

Glen Canyon Dam,
189–91

goats,
35–36
,
41
,
44

Golden Fleece,
101
,
113

Golem,
165–66

Gómez-Alonso, Juan,
151

Gorgons,
63
,
64

Greece,
12
n,
87
,
115
,
137
,
155

Greeks,
22
,
43–44

Griffin,
34
,
38

growth hormone,
18

gui ya shen,
132

Haast’s eagle,
25–27

Hadly, Elizabeth,
192

Hadza,
126
,
127

Haiti,
143–47

HAL 9000,
164
,
177–78

hallucinations,
131
,
134

Han dynasty,
114
,
115

Harry Potter
books (Rowling),
77
,
110
,
158–59

Harry Potter
films,
78
,
99
,
118
,
119

Hawaii,
60–62
,
116

Hays, Angelo,
142–43

Hera,
9
,
115

Hercules,
9–10
,
21
,
33
,
88

Hercules or Perseus and Sea Monster,
89

Herodotus,
127

Hertig, Silvia,
89

Hesiod,
34
,
37
,
42
n,
44
,
63
,
122

Himilco,
103

Historium rerum Anglicarum
(William of Newburgh),
137–38

History of the Kings of Britain
(Geoffrey of Monmouth),
107–8
,
123–24
,
125–26
,
130

Homer,
10–11
,
34
,
43
,
44
,
80–82
,
84
,
87
,
121–22
,
125
,
129
,
137
,
140

Hooke, Robert,
67

horses,
36

hot spots,
61

Howard, Ron,
119

How to Train Your Dragon
(film),
116
,
118

Hughes, David,
206

Humboldt squid,
93

hurricanes,
186

Hurston, Zora Neale,
143

Hydra,
33
,
37
,
39

hypothermia,
80

hypovolemic shock,
68–69

I, Robot
(Asimov),
181

I Ching,
116

identical twins,
37

Iliad
(Homer),
10–11
, 341

incubi,
123–24
,
126
,
128
,
129
,
132

Independence Day
(film),
203

India,
28–29

Indonesia,
55
,
63

Interpretation of Dreams
(Artemidorus),
128

Interview with the Vampire
(Rice),
16
,
159
,
162
,
163

Iron Age,
112

Isis,
107

Island of Dr. Moreau, The
(Wells),
33
,
46–49
,
169
,
170

Israel,
44
,
45

Italy,
82
,
83

Jackson, Peter,
211

jaguars,
8

Japan,
55
,
57
,
81
,
82

Jason,
99
,
101–2

Jason about to Steal the Golden Fleece,
102

Jason and the Dragon,
102

Jaws
(film),
93–94
,
118
n
—19
n,
214

Job, Book of,
85–86
,
122

Journal of Ethnopharmacology,
147

Journal of Experimental Psychology,
72–73

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
175–76

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom,
92

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,
128–29

Journey to the Center of the Earth
(Verne),
184

Jurassic Park
(Crichton),
39
,
181
,
184–85
,
186
,
187
,
188
,
193
,
195
,
214

Keizer, Kees,
160–61

King, Stephen,
133
,
157

King Kong
films,
31–32
,
47
,
211
,
217

Kleitias,
11

Knossos,
54–55

kokma,
132

Komodo dragons,
188

Korbonits, Márta,
19–20

Kraken,
88

Kubrick, Stanley,
133
,
177

La Brea Tar Pits,
43–44
,
62

labyrinth,
52–53
,
54–55
,
60

Lake Placid
(film),
119

Lambert, Mary,
133

Landolt, Anna,
120
,
123

Larrick, James,
69–70

Larsson, Hans,
196

Last Samurai, The
(film),
216

Leonardo da Vinci,
21
,
67

Leterrier, Louis,
76

Leviathan,
84
,
85–88
,
89
,
91
,
97

Lion King, The,
46

lions,
7–8
,
12–13
,
14–17
,
22–23
,
35
,
36
,
41
,
42–43
,
44
,
155

lizards,
70

Llosa, Luis,
77

Loch Ness monster,
90–91
,
96
n

Lonsdorf, Elizabeth,
73

Lord of the Rings, The
(Tolkien),
28
,
110

Lord of the Rings, The
(films),
217

Lost World, The
(Doyle),
184

Lotus-Eaters,
123

Lycaon,
155–56

Lycia,
44
,
45

Madagascar,
26–27
,
95

Mahabharata,
28

malaria,
205
,
207

mammals,
104
,
201

mammoths,
13–14
,
194

Manticore,
33
,
47

Marathon,
127

Marcellinus, Ammianus,
57–58
,
59

Marean, Curtis,
95

Margaret, Saint,
99

Mars,
199–200

Mars Attacks!
(film),
203

mastodons,
13–14

Matrix, The
(film),
177
,
178
,
179–80

Maugantius,
124–25

Mayor, Adrienne,
14
,
38
,
116
n

Medea,
99
,
101–2

Medea
(Euripides),
102

Mediterranean Sea,
44
,
56
,
59
,
81
,
82
,
87

Medusa,
2
,
3
,
38
,
63–64
,
64
,
67
,
69
,
73–76
,
77
,
119
,
159
,
165

Medusa,
74

Meno
(Plato),
164

Merlin,
108
,
111
,
113
,
123–24
,
125–26

Mesopotamians,
15

Mesozoic era,
104

Messina, Strait of,
83
,
84

Metamorphosis
(Ovid),
76
,
155–56

meteors,
201

methane,
112–13
,
114

middens,
192–93

Middle Ages,
110
,
211
,
214

Middle East,
28
,
29
,
44
,
100

Minos,
52
,
53–54
,
59–60
,
61

Minotaur,
1
,
2
,
3–4
,
6
,
51–55
,
53
,
57
,
60
,
61
,
62
,
63
,
159
,
164
,
173
,
211

Mitchell, Jonathan,
70

Moki Indians,
117

Morales, Judith,
159

Morency, Louis-Philippe,
178–79

Mount Olympus,
121–22

Mozambique,
95

multicellularity,
200
,
201

Nagini,
78

NASA,
199–200

National Park Service,
190

Nattier, Jean-Marc,
75
,
75

natural gas vents,
110