MY MONSTERF*CKER THEORY
Having a boyfriend might be embarrassing...but what about having a monster?
“She gazed upon the spectre with mingled dread and fascination.”
— Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796)
The first love story I was ever interested in was also a monster story. Rewatching Disney’s Beauty and the Beast as an adult, I was struck by what a fixer-upper-golden-retriever boyfriend the Beast turns out to be. He likes to stay at home and is willing to b…
