Griffith Review 89

Portent, symbol, metaphor: from the Bunyip to the Slenderman, from Count Dracula to the (far more sinister) emotional vampire, monsters of all forms have offered us ways to express and exorcise our fears for thousands of years.

Griffith Review 89: Here Be Monsters surveys beasts and bogeymen past and present, real and imagined, to peel back the layers of our social and cultural anxieties. What are we most afraid of? When is monstrosity alluring rather than frightening? And what form might the monsters of the future take?

About the Authors

Carody Culver is a writer and editor. Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets, was published by Cordite in 2022, and she's been a featured Australian poet on the Best American Poetry blog. A former contributing editor for Peppermint magazine, she is currently the editor of Griffith Review.

Lisa Fuller is an award-winning Murri writer living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands (Canberra). She won the 2017 David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer and the 2018 Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship, and she was a joint winner of the 2018 Copyright Agency Fellowships for First Nations Writers. Lisa's young adult novel, Ghost Bird, won the Griffith University Young Adult Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards, the Norma K Hemming Award and the Readings Young Adult Prize in 2020, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature and 2022 Indigenous Writers' Prize at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.