Monstrosity, once experienced as prodigious, held in awe, fell sway to biomedical experimentation's rational labeling of the freak, but failed to kill off dread, age of anxiety's theme.
Self...lost, overtaken, evil-driven, powerless. 1900s, Age of Anxiety, discovers the Doppelgänger, Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, endowed with potent psychological & sexual connotations, bring insanity & hysteria into focus.