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The earliest examples of Gothic literature can be traced all the way back to English author Horace Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto (1764). [1] However, monster literature first emerged in the 19th century with the release of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818).
Scylla and Charybdis, sea monsters living on opposite sides of a narrow strait The Sirens , women combined with birds, whose songs lured sailors to wreck their ships The Sphinx , the head of a woman and the body of a lion, said to have guarded the entrance to the city of Thebes
Bahamut – Whale monster whose body supports the earth. Word seems far more ancient than Islam and may be origin of the word Behemoth in modern Judeo-Christian lore. Bake-kujira – Ghost whale; Cetus – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail
S. SA-X; Sandworm (Dune) Sarlacc; Scarecrow (DC Comics) Shaggy Man (comics) Shoggoth; Shub-Niggurath; Shuma-Gorath; Silver Banshee; Skeksis; Skullcrawler; Slappy the Dummy
An Allegory of Immortality, c. 1540. Monster derives from the Latin monstrum, itself derived ultimately from the verb moneo ("to remind, warn, instruct, or foretell"), and denotes anything "strange or singular, contrary to the usual course of nature, by which the gods give notice of evil," "a strange, unnatural, hideous person, animal, or thing," or any "monstrous or unusual thing ...
The Middengard Wyrm (A Court of Thorns and Roses) is a gigantic, blind worm monster that navigates by scent, and is described as being pinkish-brown and having an enormous mouth filled with rows of sharp teeth. It is killed by the main character of the series, Feyre, who evades its senses by covering herself in mud, and then lures it into a ...
Pages in category "Fictional monster hunters" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Renji Abarai;
In Seiju Sentai Gingaman, the monster Morgumorgu is a mummy-themed monster. In Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, the monster was adapted as Crumummy. In Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive, the monster Zombeast is a mummy-themed Psyma Beast. In Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, the monster was used for one of the unidentified defeated demons in the Shadow World.