The Origin of Spooky Halloween Monsters

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

Well, it's almost that time. Halloween eve.

I've had this on my mind off and on for ya. I've put together every connection I could come up with, but don't think I'm even close to what you're shooting for Herr.

Time, location, some historical events, like plagues, as well as rulers of the time, are the only solid connections I've come up with.

I do remember hearing something long ago about how Mary Shelly's Frankenstein's monster character was actually a metaphor for something twisted, but I can't remember what it was.

I also picked up a new tidbit from watching a few vampire movies recently. I watched Bram Strokers Dracula, and noticed something i hadn't picked up on before. Count Dracula was a part of something called "The Order of the Dragon."
I watched Fright Night, the 2011 remake, the other night (not near as good as the original) and noticed the vampire character had a signet ring on, and they kept showing this ring repeatedly. After pausing the movie just right, and then zooming in, I noticed that ring had something like a dragon on it, but looked like something the rings freemasons wear. I wondered if it was some reference to that vampire being part of a secret society as well. This would mean vampires are members of a secret order.
Bram Strokers Dracula character was even something like a Knights Templar, before he became the undead. He was "protecting the church" before his true love dies by suicide, and becomes the undead. He cursed God, denounces his faith, drinks blood, and becomes an immortal blood sucking vampire.

I wonder if any of that will play into your thesis.

Inquiring minds are hoping you lay out something we can chew on for a bit. You've got a good build up going.

Drum roll, please...

Cheers

I gave it away in my last post. Here is my thesis statement, "I concluded that classic Gothic horror stories are based on the history of the Late Medieval Period in Europe between 1300 and 1500. These stories later developed into their present form during the fall of the European feudal system in the mid-1800s."

The end of the feudal age in Europe, that is what gave birth to the current version of monsters that came from before in the late medieval period. It fits like a glove, IMO.

I thought I pretty well covered all that in that last post I made.