Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters (36 page)

Natural History Museum (London),
185–86

Nature,
49
,
70
,
95

Nature Geoscience,
30
n,
59

Naturwissenschaften,
70

Nemean lion,
9–10
,
12
,
21
,
27
,
30
,
31
,
33
,
35
,
205
,
213
,
217

Neolithic Age,
112

Ness, Robert,
132

neurogenic shock,
68

Neurology,
151

New England Journal of Medicine,
19

New Jersey,
93

New York Times,
25

New Zealand,
25–27

Nightmare, The
(Füssli),
120–21
,
121
,
123
,
125
,
130
,
132

Nightmare on Elm Street
(film),
134–35

North African Plate,
56–57

oceans,
79–98

octopus,
91

Odyssey
(Homer),
43
,
80–82
,
124–25
,
137

Öhman, Arne,
72–73

Old Hag Syndrome,
131–32

Old Man and a Siren,
128–29
,
128
,
130

Ophiocordyceps
genus,
206

Oracle at Delphi,
52

Orestes
(Euripides),
63

organ transplants,
169
,
180

Orosius,
105–7

Ovid,
65
,
76
,
102–3
,
155–56

Owen, Richard,
183

pack rats,
191–93

Pan,
129

Paolini, Christopher,
115

Papua New Guinea,
126–27

Paranormal Activity
(film),
132

Pasiphaë,
52

peacocks,
170–71

Pegasus,
42

Pele,
60
,
116

Peli, Oren,
132

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
(film),
76

Perseus,
64
,
65
,
73
,
74
,
76
,
88
,
89

Perseus and Andromeda
(Titian),
90

Perseus with Minerva Showing the Head of Medusa
(Nattier),
75

Persians,
127

personality,
4–5

Petronius,
153–54

Pet Sematary
(film),
133

Philippines,
104–5

Phineus,
74
,
75

Phi um,
132

Physical Journal of Anthropology,
26
n

Picasso, Pablo,
73

Pinatubo, Mount,
63

Pindar,
101

Pinnacle Point,
95

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(film),
79

pituitary gland,
18–20

Planet of the Apes
(film),
48

Plan of the Faro, or Strait of Messina,
83

Plato,
122
,
164

plesiosaurs,
90–91
,
96
n,
103

Pliny the Elder,
9
,
107

Polo, Marco,
23
,
27

Poltergeist
(film),
133

Pompeii,
65

Poseidon,
52
,
60
n,
65

postmortem bloat,
141

power,
175–76

Predator
(film),
205

Princess Bride, The
(film),
7
,
29
,
46

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science,
104

Proceratops,
38
,
40
n

psychogenic shock,
69

pterosaurs,
24–25

puffer fish,
145–46

Pytheas,
103

pythons,
92–93
,
104–5

rabies,
151–53
,
157
,
158

Raiders of the Lost Ark
(film),
51
,
77

Reign of Fire
(film),
118

REM sleep behavior disorder,
130–31

Renaissance,
21
,
74
,
75
,
214

reptiles,
118
,
201

Romania,
150–51

Rome,
105–7
,
127
,
218

Rosa, Rui,
92

Rowling, J. K.,
77
,
110

Rozin,
2–3

Rubens, Peter Paul,
21–22
,
22
,
73

Rukh,
23–29
,
31
,
211–12

Russia,
44

saber-toothed cat,
13
,
33

Sagan, Carl,
103–4

’Salem’s Lot
(King),
155

Sanders, Chris,
115

Satan,
122
,
129

Satyricon
(Petronius),
153–54
,
156

Scheffers, Anja,
59–60

schistosomiasis,
205–6

Schoedsack, Ernest,
31

Science,
160–61
,
199–200

scleroderma,
16

Scott, Ridley,
1
,
204
,
207
,
211

Scylla,
43
,
47
,
81
,
165

Sea of Cortez,
93

seizures,
69

serpents,
100
,
106

sexual dreams,
126–30
,
132
,
134

sharks,
93–98

Shelley, Mary,
167
,
180

Shen-lung,
116–17

Shining, The
(film),
133

shock,
68–69

Sicily,
82
,
83

Sigfried,
99

Sirens,
76
,
124–25
,
126
,
129
,
130

Skotino cave complex,
55

sleep atonia,
131–32
,
133–34

Smyth, W. H.,
82
,
83

snakes,
28–29
,
35
,
36
,
44
,
51
,
69–73
,
77
,
90
,
100–103
,
106–7
,
116
,
117–18
,
162
,
196

Snakes on a Plane
(film),
77

social status,
175–76

speed-dating,
172–73

Sphinx,
2
,
42–43

spicy foods,
2–3
,
4

spiders,
30

Spielberg, Steven,
77
,
93–94
,
210
,
211

Splice
(film),
169–70
,
174–75
,
181
,
211

squids,
91–93

Stargate
(film),
203

Star Trek
(TV series),
204

status,
175–76

Stegosaurus,
27

Stewart, Charles,
127–28
,
135

Stoker, Bram,
151
n,
156–57

Stothers, Richard,
107

subduction zones,
55–57
,
60–61

succubi,
123
,
129
,
132–33

sugarcane,
188–89

Sumer,
113

Super 8
(film),
210
,
211

Syria,
44
,
45

tails,
35–36
,
196

Tanzania,
73
,
95
,
126

tar pits,
40–44
,
62

Tasmanian devil,
194

Tasmanian tiger,
194–95

Teiresias,
137

Terminator
(film),
177–78
,
179–82

Thailand,
132

Theogony
(Hesiod),
34
,
42
n,
63

thermal pools,
61

Theropoda,
27

Theseus,
53

Thompson, Steven,
20

Thorp, Robert Lee,
114

Tiamat,
100–101
,
104
,
113

Tiamat,
100

Titanoboa,
107

Titans,
14

Titian,
90

Tolkien, J. R. R.,
28
,
29

tomb fires,
119

tornadoes,
186

Torre Faro,
83

Torres, Roxana,
159

Toxoplasma gondii,
208–9

Triceratops,
27
,
38
,
201

trout,
190

True Blood
(TV show),
159
,
161
,
163

tsunamis,
57–60
,
63
,
81
,
186

tuberculosis,
148
,
149
,
153

Tunisia,
105–6

Turkey,
110
,
149

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(Verne),
91

Twilight
series,
153
,
155
,
159
,
161
,
162
,
163

2001: A Space Odyssey
(film),
164
,
177–78

Tyrannosaurus,
27
,
182–83
,
201

Uatchitodon,
70

Umeda,
126–27

Underworld
series,
153
,
155

vampires,
136–37
,
142
,
147–53
,
155
,
214

Vampires, Burial, and Death
(Barber),
147

van Vogt, Alfred Elton,
207

Velando, Alberto,
159

Velociraptor,
27
,
39
,
40
n,
104
,
214

venom,
28–29
,
70
,
71
n,
187–88

Verne, Jules,
91
,
184

Vesuvius, Mount,
65

Vipera ammodytes,
100

viruses,
147
,
149
n

Vishnu,
28

Volcano
(film),
61–62
,
63

volcanoes,
55
,
60–61
,
62–63
,
65

Vortigern,
108–9
,
111
,
123–24

Wallace, Alfred Russel,
217

Wang Ch’ung,
114

Wang Fu,
115

Waorani,
70

War of the Worlds, The
(Wells),
202–3
,
209

Watkins, James,
132

Wells, H. G.,
46–49
,
169
,
170
,
202–3
,
211

werewolves,
153–54

whales,
86–87
,
90
,
91
,
97

whirlpools,
80–83

William of Newburgh,
137–40
,
147
,
148
,
155

Wolfman, The
(film),
157

wolves,
39
,
192–93

Woman in Black, The
(film),
132

World Health Organization,
8

Wyatt, Rupert,
48

Xenophanes,
67

X-Files, The
(TV show),
132
,
208

X-Men
(film),
166

Yangtze region, China,
114

Yates, David,
78
,
119

Yellowstone National Park,
61
,
62
,
191–93

Zeus,
115
,
122

Zhong, Chen-Bo,
161

Zombieland
(film),
157

zombies,
143–47
,
158