Monstrosity from the Inside Out

by Teresa Cutler-Broyles (Editor), Marko Teodorski (Editor)

Emerging from darkness, daring to take form and become something more than the Other, monsters stalk these pages, shifting form in true monstrous fashion as they inhabit literature and film, history and parallel communities modelled after our own. They become enmeshed in popular music, run rampant through cities, take androgynous form to rally for their own identities, their own futures, and their own families, and they hold up mirrors while we are caught shattering our sense of Self.

Both the past and the future are rich fodder for the evil that monsters do, and from freak show to homunculus to serial killer to cyborg, they remind us that they are never far from sight - and that we cannot look away even if we wish to. Monstrosity from the Inside Out takes as the paradox that monsters are simultaneously impossible and very much a part of what it means to be human.

220 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2014

About the author

Stories come to me at odd moments and in bits and pieces. In those moments I let those pieces take form as they choose, and I begin writing when they have coalesced into something I can grasp. Sometimes it is simply a sentence when it begins; other times it is a fully formed story.

In every case, and every day, I focus on the next thing that fascinates me, though the subject matter stays within certain unconnected boundaries.

Genres tend to be historical fiction, mystery with a kink, creative non-fiction, travel essays, history and architecture, and academic analysis of film and culture.

Subjects range from architectural history, obscure and strange places such as circuses, cemeteries, and abandoned cities, 19th and early 20th century world's fairs, the history of printing, 1570 Italy, the roaring '20s, 17th century England, monsters, science fiction and culture, myth, time travel....

Researching is as fascinating to me as the writing itself, and I spend more time than I often am aware of immersed in the stacks.

I teach cultural and film analysis at the University of New Mexico - favorite class to teach is Cult Film. I'm almost done with a PhD in American Cultural Studies and a certificate for Historic Preservation.

Free time? Watching Star Trek, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Cult films, Italian films, The Expanse, Black Matter, Graham Norton....

I read books of all kinds.
Favorite authors include GG Marquez, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Orhan Pamuk, JD Robb, Gini Koch, Ferenc Mate, Dorothy Dunnett, Neil Gaiman, Audry Niffenegger, Erin Morgenstern, Seldon Edwards, Khaled Hosseini, Katherine Dunn, Arundhati Roy, and more. That's just the fiction.

Non Fiction - Tony Perrottet, Lewis Mumford, Edward Said, Richard Kearney, Joseph Roach, Mike Davis, and many more.

Ask me anything!