Special Agent Fox Mulder

Case: 3X14/Grotesque

The name is from the French "garguille," the name of a medieval dragon which 
prowled the river Seine, whose horrible image became the symbol of the souls of 
the condemned, turned to stone, or of the devils and demons of the underworld 
spared eternal damnation - the embodiment of the lesser forces of the universe 
who inspired dread and the threat of our own damnation. Ushers into hell or into 
the realm of our own dark fears and imagination.

For over twelve hundred years the grotesque image has found its expression, in 
stone, clay, wood, oil and charcoal.

Born again and again, as if resurrecting itself by its own will through tortured 
human expression, almost as if it existed, haunting men inwardly so that it might 
haunt mankind for eternity, as it must have haunted John Mostow. But what 
impulses moved him to kill; could this be the same dark force at work, its 
ultimate expression the destruction of the flesh, of the very hand that creates it?

Is this evil something born in each of us, crouching in the shadow of every 
human soul, waiting to emerge. A monster that violates our bodies, and twists 
our will to do its bidding. Is this the monster called madness?