Frankenstein, Dracula, 'Carmilla', the works of Poe and even the illusive Mr. Hyde have all had their share of visual interpretations.

When aesthetic theory makes the eye the pre-eminent organ of truth where can the unbelievable and impossibly monstrous spectacle stand? John Ruskin wrote, "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion - all in one." But what if our clear vision falls upon sights so inconceivably hideous that our rational mind revolts at the profanity of the poetry, prophecy and religion offered?