Mythical Monsters of the World

elahrairah: reminds us that monsters are mostly made by man.

Boand: The original classic tale of a vampire which is the source material for many subsequent modern stories.

Boand: One of the oldest monster stories in existence

malloyd: More than anything else, I think this book resurrected the dragon as a legitimate monster, not just an allegory for Satan.

elahrairah : great book but not our world!

abbottthomas: The Green Knight is usually portrayed as very human-looking but he is green and can carry his lopped off head around so I guess he qualifies as monstrous.

elahrairah: All of the myths, all at once.

elahrairah: i really enjoyed the zombie-apocalypse-as-sunday-supplement style of this. it turned an otherwise run-of-the-mill story into something special.

: I'd vote for this in a heartbeat for metafiction, but while Grover is undoubtedly a monster he is not mythical.

hipdeep: Banshees and fairies and selkies, oh my!

Aquila: Kurangaituku is the bird woman in the tale of Hatupatu and the Birdwoman from Aotearoa

paradoxosalpha: "the old race throwing angry primordials": a heady brew that makes you wonder what monsters are and whether you know any

elenchus: A monster from prehistoric times is found to be much closer than you might ... think.

Boand: The devil and an archangel toy with humans in this fun loving romp

paradoxosalpha: The centerpiece of this late-antique romp is the fable of Cupid and Psyche, which is the germ of later monsters like Bluebeard and the Beast of Beauty and the Beast. (Yes, Eros is a monster of myth!)

paradoxosalpha: Current scholarship on Medieval demonology

ForAttentionPress: The Wheelers and Princess Langwidere

lquilter: Lovely story about trolls.

malloyd: The deep influence of D&D on the video game industry, and hence modern media in general, gives even the inauthentic monsters here a shot at immortality...

paradoxosalpha: An adult fantasy that draws on biblical and other ancient Hebrew myths

EerierIdyllMeme: A fun take on the vampire myth.

lquilter: Into the Drowning Deep features a discovery of mermaids - who are not the creatures of yore.

EerierIdyllMeme: The narrator imagines herself and the people around her as various mythical monsters.

Boand: A modern take on an ancient mythic monster

Aquila: Taniwha from Aotearoa

Boand: A modern fairy tale based on characters from the ancient Welsh book The Mabinogion

malloyd: My first (long ago elementary school) exposure to the monsters of Greek myth.

lquilter: A wonderful story of a 19th century woman and her cryptozoological adventure ....

vwinsloe: Featuring Bigfoot, or Bigfeet, or Sasquatches?

yoyogod: A "classic" 70s horror novel about a killer bigfoot.

EMS_24: Will they find the owner of these big paw marks?

elahrairah: monsters of london below

RaeCreated: Death and terror in the woods and Bigfoot may be the cause.

elahrairah: sometimes the monsters are us.

yoyogod: The albatwitch is a cryptid said to be native to my area of Pennsylvania. It is essentially a small bigfoot that throws apples at people.

paradoxosalpha: Insightful scholarship concerning Rabelaisian giants and their conceptual forebears

JalenV: This is an illustrated (cartoon style) guide to mythical monsters of many countries, most of which I had not heard of before.

timspalding: Ctesias was the first author to describe the "Manticore," among other criters.

Morphidae: (Ignore the cover. It's atrocious.) Whenever I hear "monsters", I think of Verity Price, who has been raised to be a cryptologist (monster hunter) since she was old enough to hold a knife in her tiny fist. What she wants to do, however, is to be a professional ball room dancer. Now if those pesky monsters would simply stay out of her way...

sturlington: An abandoned amusement park that is a labyrinth, a monster at the middle of it, and a sacrifice.

JalenV: It's very scholarly, even if the author made a habit of quoting in original languages without always translating them.

EerierIdyllMeme: One of my favourite surprise appearances of this mythical creature.

sturlington: A troll living in a cave in the heart of Queens.