Introduction Kristen D. Wright Part I: Searching for Monsters How Ignorance Made a Monster, Or: Writing the History of Vlad the Impaler without the Use of Sources Leads to 20,000 Impaled Turks Peter Mario Kreuter Unveiling the Truth through Testimony: The Argentinean Dirty War Adriana Spahr Fanatics and Absolutists: Communist Monsters in John le Carré's Cold War Fiction Toby Manning Part II: Desiring the Monstrous Queer Race Play: Kinky Sex and the Trauma of Racism Dejan Kuzmanovic Absolute Beasts? Social Mechanics of Achieved Monstrosity William Redwood Part III: Writing Monsters Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker's Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers' The Ugly Swans Elsa Bouet Monstrosity and the Fantastic: The Threats and Promises of Monsters in Tommaso Landolfi's Fiction Irene Bulla Part IV: Gazing at Monsters 'This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine': Man's Monstrous Potential in The Tempest and Titus Andronicus Kristen D. Wright Paedophilic Productions and Gothic Performances: Contending with Monstrous Identity Jen Baker Creeper Bogeyman: Cultural Narratives of Gay as Monstrous Sergio Fernando Juárez Full Metal Abs: The Obscene Spartan Supplement of Liberal Democracy Carlo Comanducci.