Scary Monsters...

It's few days now since the Monsters and the Monsters conference at Mansfield College, Oxford, and I'm still pondering the many topics discussed there. It was a fantastically rich mix, from Grendel to viruses, werewolves to mermaids, child killers to killer children, 'prawns' to zombies, lobotomies to Islamophobia, mutation to hermaphroditism, from Dexter to Doris Lessing, Dracula to Twilight, Inferno to Watchmen, Paradise Lost via London and Goblin Market to Oz, Lord Byron to Lovecraft to Crowley to Jung to Lady Gaga... Me? I took along a phantom...