"The contemporary monsters the writers examine in this anthology include the pedophilic homosexual priest, the hypermascuIinized rogue cop, the masculinized mother, the drug addict, the white-collar criminal, and the serial killer and terrorist as well as corporate entities such as police departments nurtured by monstrously corrupt practices, unbridled capitalism as vampiric, and the proliferation of Gothic images and metaphors in popular culture spawning paranoid and useless public policy."--BOOK JACKET.