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A Belated Halloween History - Monsters Edition

Posted by Zonk on from the blah-blah dept.

uriah923 writes "Nick Dilmore has published the second edition in his Snarky Halloween History series, featured on Slashdot last year. This time around, he concentrates on movie monsters: vampires, werewolves and zombies. From the article: '[D]id you know the movie monsters we've all to come to know and love (in a platonic way, of course) have colorful histories stretching back to the earliest civilizations? What, you didn't think some Hollywood hack actually had enough imagination to invent vampires, werewolves, and zombies, did you? Silly, silly non-monster-trivia knowing person.'"

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  1. Yeah... by Caalador · · Score: 0, Troll

    From TFA:

    So what have we learned? Vampires shouldn't have been all that scary, what with their fascination with counting games. Werewolves were probably just really, really twisted freaks who thought blaming magic belts and salve would somehow not earn them a spot on the burning stake. And zombies may actually be real. Throw in the fear of witches, fairies, and evil spirits and it's a wonder our ancestors ever got any sleep at night. Must be how alcohol was invented.

    Our ancestors probably didn't have the governments terrorizing them!