"This book continues the examination of the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture that Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan first considered in The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend and Images of the Modern Vampire: the Hip and Atavistic. The chapters in this collection provide readers with a multicultural and multigeneric discussion of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who cross species-specific boundaries and interact with ease."