• demoniacal corpse

    The monstrous is further mystified, not just as a zombie, who has come by black magic
    into a false and unnatural vitality, but also as a demon, a supernatural embodiment
    of evil. The progression is thus from the wretched (alienated) to wretch (marginally
    human) to monster (inhuman) to demon (antihuman). And howsoever the Creature is named
    or names himself, as he will richly illustrate in the second volume (especially II:5:17
    and II:7:7), so he becomes.