No go the bogeyman

The book starts with the Orphic myth story of the birth of dionysus, god of wine, pleasure and excess.  The writer then talks about what the book is about- fear and the book being a collection of stories about the bogeys. It is split into 3 parts: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock. In Scaring, the writer talks about a poem written in Germany in 1782  by Goethe  about the Erlking / King of the Alders  who tries to convince a boy to come with him and after the boy refuses he ends up dead. The author talks about how the poem personifies death as a danger particularly to the young and stories inspired by the poem. She talks about similar monsters- child-snatchers , night-raiders and cradle snatchers. Other creatures she mentions are the Italian manducus and Dossenus, the Russian bannik and his wife bannikha, phantoms, witches, hobgoblins, bogeys, elves, ogres, cyclops  and  giants. The author also mentions fairy tales such as Hansel and Gretel and the puppet show Punch and Judy. She also talks about greek mythology figures such as Zeus and Hera , the Egyptian dwarf god Bes and the story of the pied piper. Next she talks about child-guzzlers/frighteners, Bullebak and some French fairy tales
- tom thumb and bluebeard, Wee willie Winkie and The Sandman and Bogeys around the world.  The author then talks about more fantasy tales with creatures such as Lewis Carols jabberwocky and Lycaon the first werewolf and his relation to Greek mythology. Next she talks about the story of Little Red Riding Hood  and the different versions of the story including one where the wolf wins and children enjoy. She also talks about Goya's "Here Comes the Bogeyman" and "Disparate"which features a creature called the Bobalicon and some of his other fantasy paintings. After this she talks about the origins of the word "Bogy" and stories which bogeys are featured and some other fairy stories. The next chapter of the first part of the book is about Saturn devouring his child. The author talks about Goya's paintings of this cannibal God. In the next chapter she talks about Roman and Greek gods.  The next few chapters are about Greek mythology in particular about Cyclops and Scylla a female monster with 6 heads and twelve feet and the odyssey.In the next chapter she talks about ogres, giants and the size of monsters. In the next couple of chapters she talks about monsters and religion. In the next chapter she talks about eating and monsters. In the next chapter she talks about how fear is applied, this is the last chapter of s caring. Lulling only has a few chapters. It starts with  Caravaggio: the rest on the flight into Egypt. Making mock starts with talking about the chimera, medusa,athena, kali, animalistic nature of humans, echidna, typho,scylla, greek hybrids, Pegasus,  hydra, sphinx, dragons. In the next chapter she talks about the two meanings of funny,  Quentin tarantino films, r.l stines goosebumps, Quasimodo, the grotesque, different genres of fantasy and monsters and their roles in entertainment such as books or movies.   in the next chapter she talks about metamorphosis. in the next chapter she talks about gryllus- a pig like creature and song and mythology. She talks about ogres and giants in the next chapter, jack and the beanstalk, puss in boots, the bfg, king kong  etc . in the next chapter she talks about humour.