Winter Tide

This leads to an important question: What makes a monster? As children we are used to thinking of monsters as hideous, otherworldly creatures: things that crawl in the dark, that eat people, that wish humanity ill. Lovecraft???s stories, and many others besides, are rife with them. But in Winter Tide, Emrys reframes the original question ??? instead of asking ???What makes a monster???? she asks: ???Who makes a monster???? In framing the question thusly, Emrys reveals that monstrosity is really a matter of perspective: the result of a person???s own fears and prejudices. And once the reader realises this, it becomes easy to see that when a character says ???We are all monsters???one way or another???, said character is asking the reader not only to examine his or her own prejudices, but also himself or herself. It is easy to see the monsters without; it is much harder to see the monster within.

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