The Science of Monsters

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We couldn’t have written this book if we had never met. Thank you to The X-Files for bringing us together!

Thank you to Nicole Mele and everyone at Skyhorse.

Thank you to all of the experts we interviewed.

To our Rewinders, thanks for listening to the podcast!

Thank you to our families, including our own little monsters; Campbell and Vienna, Fox and Dexter.

And to the women of horror and science who came before us, thank you for illuminating the darkness—making our path far less scary.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Kelly Florence (left) and Meg Hafdahl

Meg Hafdahl is a horror and suspense author. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies such as Eve’s Requiem: Tales of Women, Mystery, and Horror and Eclectically Criminal. Her work has been produced for audio by The Wicked Library and The Lift, and she is the author of two popular short story collections including Twisted Reveries: Thirteen Tales of the Macabre. Meg is also the author of the two novels; Daughters of Darkness and Her Dark Inheritance called “an intricate tale of betrayal, murder, and small-town intrigue” by Horror Addicts and “every bit as page turning as any King novel” by RW Magazine. Meg, also the cohost of the podcast Horror Rewind, lives in the snowy bluffs of Minnesota.

Kelly Florence is a communication instructor at Lake Superior College in Duluth, Minnesota, and is the creator and cohost of the Horror Rewind podcast as well as the producer and host of the Be a Better Communicator podcast. She received her BA in theatre at the University of Minnesota–Duluth and got her MA in communicating arts at the University of Wisconsin–Superior.

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ENDNOTES

Chapter One: Halloween

1. Minutaglio, Ruth. (2018) “The Untold Story of the Real Person Who Inspired Halloween’s Michael Myers.” Esquire.

2. Hagerty, Barbara Bradley. (2017) “When Your Child Is a Psychopath.” The Atlantic.

3. Heide, Kathleen M. (1992) “Why Kids Kill Parents.” Psychology Today.

4. Goodwin, Christopher. (2011) “My Child, the Murderer.” The Guardian.

5. Allen v. United States, 150 U.S. 551 (1893)

6. Hutchinson, Stefan. (2008) Halloween: Nightdance. Devil’s Due Publishing.

Chapter Two: Child’s Play

1. “High Court Upholds New Trial in ‘Halloween II’ Murder Case.” (1989) The LA Times.

2. “James Bulger Case: Timeline of Key Quotations.” (2010) The Daily Telegraph.

Chapter Three: A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. Marks, Craig. (2014) “Freddy Lives: An Oral History of A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Vulture.

2. “Deaths of Asians in Sleep Still a Mystery.” (April 24, 1988) LA Times.

3. Madrigal, Alexis. (September 14, 2011) “The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills.” The Atlantic.

4. Olunu, Esther et al. (2018) “Sleep Paralysis, a Medical Condition with a Diverse Cultural Interpretation.” International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research 8 (3), 137.

5. Hutson, Thommy. (2016) Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy: The Making of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. Permuted Press.

Chapter Four: Psycho

1. Leigh, Janet, with Christopher Nickens. (1995) Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller. Harmony Press.

2. McNally, Kieran. (Jan 2007) “Schizophrenia as Split Personality/Jekyll and Hyde: The Origins of the Informal Usage in the English Language.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 43 (1) 69–79.

3. Stevenson, Robert Louis. (1886) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York: Black’s Readers Service Company.

Chapter Five: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1. History.Com Editors. (2009) “Real-Life Psycho Ed Gein Dies.” History.com.

2. Biography.Com Editors. (2014) “Ed Gein-Murderer-Biography.” Biography.com.

3. Shorey, Eric. (September 2018) “Is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Based on a True Story?” Oxygen.com.

4. Harrigan, Stephen. (July 2014) “A Double Date with Leatherface.” Texas Monthly 42 (7), 52–56.