Some Evil Thing
James Davidson
- No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock by Marina Warner
Chatto, 435 pp, £25.00, October 1998, ISBN 0 7011 6593 6
Marina Warner’s No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock is an impossible book. It circles around monsters and the frightening of children, but it also has chapters on the heavenly host, bananas and birdsong. Its material includes nursery tales, Greek myth, Shakespeare and Keats, autobiography, film and pop culture. It draws on the work of entomologists, etymologists, musicologists and historians. It is neither comprehensive, congruous nor conclusive. It is, on the other hand, fascinating, clever and original.
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