The Howl-a-Bunga!

Genre/Style: Halloween Novelty

Touchstones: Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt Kickers, “The Monster Mash"; Clarence “Frogman” Henry, “I Ain’t Got No Home”; Donald Glover, Tracy Morgan, and Jeff Richmond, “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah”

Themes:

Myth: Lycaon, Medusa, and the Minotaur

Notable Tellings:

LYCAON: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 1.177-243 (8 AD); Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.2.1-6 (2nd C. AD)

MEDUSA: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses ~4.787-803 (8 AD)

MINOTAUR: Plutarch, Parallel Lives, “Life of Theseus” 15ff (2nd C. AD).; Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 8.152-182 (8 AD)