From dragons to dreaming serpents: tracing the cultural history of the monstrous Lambton Worm
- Written by Tom Murray, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow in Screen Media, Macquarie University
An 1894 image of Lambton fighting the worm from the book More English Fairy Tales.Wikimedia Commons
The mind needs monsters, as David Gilmore tells us in his classic 2003 text on the subject. But I’m not sure that I really needed mine. What is there to need in a massive and monstrous worm living under the bed?
Psychologists tell us that...