It is nothing about monsters, supernatural or physical beings; it is the soul of a child, who is fighting or not fighting against the fears of his time, the fears embedded in the region, thus the fears of his parents. I loved the idea; very real, very Freudian, very deep inner-human mechanisms developing in the childhood. And the "wasteland" is the childhood itself, mostly wasted in the cause of the fears of others.
Review of The Wasteland
