Chimera (Barth novel) Chimera (Barth novel) Chimera is a 1972 fantasy novel written by American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas. The novellas are "Dunyazadiad", "Perseid" and "Bellerophoniad", whose titles refer eponymously to the mythical characters Dunyazad, Perseus and Bellerophon (slayer of the mythical Chimera). The book is an example of postmodernism, which can be seen in its metafictional content and its incorporation of stylistic elements that go beyond the traditional novel genre. It shared the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with "Augustus" by John Edward Williams. The Dunyazadiad is a retelling of the framing story of Scheherazade, the
Mythology of Teen Wolf the traits of a particular supernatural creature they are remade into, but they are not supernatural, and so they are not affected by the every day arcane rules: Theodore "Theo" Raeken is the very first Chimera produced from the Dread Doctors' experiments. Nine years prior to the series, Theo was chosen to be a Chimera by the Doctors. They saw him as a perfect candidate for being the 'perfect evil' as Theo was a sociopath: he would willingly murder his responsibly caring sister as a child. After Theo killed his sister, he became a genetic chimera after the Dread Doctors