Evil is not a Mental Illness
The Re-Branding of Monsters in Modern Storytelling
Perhaps the greatest sign of the Evil of our times is how all of our stories are too reticent to say that Evil is Evil and not simply some "mental illness" to cure with hugs and cOmPasSiOn. I am reading Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time, and I've just finished Phantom of the Opera. In each story, the monster was truly monstrous and not some "misu…