The human obsession with frightening creatures has given rise to ancient tales of dragons and werewolves, as well as to the horrors that stalk 21st-century screens.

A man is given a death sentence after receiving a zombie biteHe rushes home to spend his final moments with his family Things do not go according to plan ...

Here is where the reader may be underwhelmed ... coming close to making firm assertions about the meaning of various monsters but slipping away before committing herself, leaving the reader ...