The Creature of the Night

“Hatred isn’t something you’re born with.” I had heard that quote often. I had heard it in the film, I had heard it in the song - I had heard it in my own head until, quite suddenly, it seemed to gain resonance. I knew of hatred as a real thing - not the ignorant, bigoted hatred that the quote referred to, but the hatred at wrongs, the hatred towards hateful people, the hatred towards the bad, the hatred towards those who are monsters, the hatred towards those ones who...