Ten years ago, back in 2008, a group of scholars interested in a diverse range of cultural figures at that point in time typically marginalized as subjects for seri ous critical study-werewolves, ghosts and revenants, giants, fairies and elves, vampires, the monsters on medieval mappa mundi, in medieval texts, in man uscript marginalia, and in premodern artwork and architecture-gathered in fellowship at a Kalamazoo watering hole during the 43rd annual International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS).