The Mystery and Lore of Monsters: Monsters, Giants And Dwarfs

From the shadowed corners of folklore and history rises a bestiary of the strange and the feared. In The Mystery and Lore of Monsters, C. J. Thompson explores the legends of giants, dwarfs, and monstrous beings that haunted the imagination of past ages—creatures born of fear, wonder, and the human need to explain the unexplainable.

Drawing on myths, chronicles, and natural histories, Thompson examines the monstrous in all its forms: giants whose size defied nature, dwarfs believed to hold secret powers, and hybrid creatures that blurred the boundary between man and beast. These accounts reveal not only the terror such beings inspired, but also the symbolic truths they carried for the societies that told their tales.

Part folklore study, part occult chronicle, this volume is a journey into the mythic and monstrous imagination, where belief created worlds as vivid—and as dangerous—as any reality.

Complete edition of C. J. Thompson’s classic study

Explores the lore of giants, dwarfs, monsters, and hybrid beings

A key text in the history of folklore, mythology, and occult traditions

Essential for collectors of the strange and students of supernatural lore