The Science of Monsters: The Origins of the Creatures We Love to Fear by Kaplan, Matt (2013) Paperback

by Matt Kaplan

Paperback

About the author

Matt Kaplan is a science correspondent at the Economist and has been responsible for the newspaper’s coverage of biology for nearly two decades. His writing has also appeared in National Geographic, New Scientist, Nature, and the New York Times. He is the author of The Science of Monsters and Science of the Magical, and co-author of David Attenborough’s First Life: A Journey Through Time. He completed a thesis in Paleontology at Berkeley, and one in science journalism at Imperial College, London. In 2014 he was awarded a Knight Fellowship to study at MIT and Harvard. Born in California, he currently lives in England.

Reviews

[Jada Sandsted · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was incredibly captivating to gain insights into various mythical creatures that many don’t believe to have ever existed. I had never imagined the human race “loving fear” in any aspect of life, but I was deeply disturbed by the reality of it. Matt Kaplan did an excellent job of combining research and a passion for lore to delve into the history of our obsessive need for questions about even the darkest of creatures to be answered.