Originally published: No go the bogeyman. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.
Prologue
Introduction
Scaring
Here comes the bogeyman!
Reflection
Goya : Saturn devouring his child
'My father he ate me ...'
Reflection
The nymphaeum of the Emperor Tiberius
The polyp and the cyclops
The Devil's banquet
Reflection
The feast of Corpus Christi, 1996 : the patum of Berga, Catalonia
'Hoc est corpus'
'Now ... we can begin to feed'
'Terrors properly applied'
Lulling
Reflection
Caravaggio : the rest on the flight into Egypt
'Sing now mother ... what me shall befall'
'Herod the king, in his raging'
'And thou, oh nightengale'
Making mock
Reflection
Louis Desprez : the chimera
'In the genre of the monstrous'
Circe's swine : 'wizard and brute'
'All my business is my song'
'Fee, fie, fo, fum'
'Of the paltriness of things'
Reflection
Albert Eckhout : eight Brazilian portraits
Going bananas
Epilogue: 'Snip! snap! snip!'
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index.
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