the-dreams-of-a-storyteller

[the-dreams-of-a-storyteller]

Monsters

Are they figures contorting in the dark? Like the thing lurking under your bed or the one scurrying in the shadows at night that you see from the corner of your eye.

Are they beastly, or is it vaguely human but wrong? Like a divine messenger of catastrophe, half-holy and half-haunted but all teeth and claws, or perfectly terrifying angle, in all their glory with all their eyes and wings.

Are they close to looking human, but they cause you unease? Like a man walking towards you late at night or the panic of being alone with a man in the woods despite it being daytime.

How do you describe something monstrous?

[the-dreams-of-a-storyteller]

Sacrilege and Desecration

I sometimes think about how museums stem from the practice of sacrilege and desecration vindicated by morbid curiosity and fascination.