Monster Kaiju

myth:monster_kaiju

The monster proper — the thing that crosses the boundary, too large or too wrong for the world: from the mythic dragon and the stone-staring Gorgon, and the fossil-bones the ancients read as giants, through Frankenstein's stitched and orphaned man, to the kaiju — Godzilla and his kin — the colossus that must be faced because it cannot be unseen. — genre history