Monsters in Literature

MONSTERS IN HTERATURE Scream Score Appearance v Powers v Evil Intent Headless Horseman Goblins Giant Squid The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Outside Gwenty Thousand Over Ghere Leagues Under the Washington Irving 1820 Daurice Sea Sendak 1981 Jules Verne 1870 creepy equestrian from Washington Irving's 1820 novel. Yep we went there. Sigh. Try not to lose your head over this Nemo and his crew delved too deep into the dark places of the ocean and out of the depths came the giant squid. Calamari anyone? These Goblins were stealing babies long before David Bowie decided to have a go at it in the classic film Labyrinth. 35% 30% 20% Morlocks Ankle Grabber Triffid The Gime Machine The Ankle Grabber DAY OF H6.Wells THE TRIFFIDS 1895 Rose Impey 1989 JOHN WYNDHAM 1951 Beware the monster beneath your bed, and if you feel a slithery hand brushing against your ankle, run. The English countryside of AD 807,701 is blighted by a race of sun-shy cannibals who live underground and only come out at night, or for school fetes. Imagine a world where plants can move... It doesn't sound too scary, unless they are trying to blind and kill 50% 50% you. 40% Beldam (The Other Mother) White Walker Killer Croc CORALINE Game of Ghrones NEIL GAIMAN Z887 BATMAN #357 George R.R. Dartin 1996 GERRY CONWAY 1983 'something' that attempts to ensnare and trap children in its world to devour The Beldam or Other Mother is a The sewers of Gotham holda reptilian terror, Killer Croc, a huge man covered in scales with superhuman strength and a penchant for criminal activities. White Walkers, the blight of the summer BBQ, instantly freezing your coals, whilst resurrecting your half cooked chicken to attack you. their souls. How? With love of course. 60% 50% 50% Mr. Hyde Jabberwocky Frankenstein's Monster The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll JABBERWOCKY and Mr. Hyde Frankenstein LEWIS CARROLda Robert Louls Stevenson 1871 Mary Shelley 1886 1818 A battle between good and evil con- The son in the Jabberwocky is a huge badass. Those claws or eyes of flame didn't scare him; he slew that foul tained in one confused individual; the unfortunate Henry Jekyll and.. Well, you don't want to meet the other one... Oh Frankenstein what were you 70% thinking? Leave the dead bodies creature just because he felt like it. alone and stick with the Bunsen burn- 70% ers and magnesium next time! 65% Scylla The Nothing Tash The Neverending Story THE ODYSSEY The Horse and His Boy 675-725 BC APPROX Wichael Ende 1979 CS Lewis 1954 "Odysseus, passing through the strait will get you where you need to go. Oh, just watch out for the giant whirlpool Sometimes what is more terrifying than anything else is the unseen, a faceless and evil entity hell-bent on destroying us. Enter The Nothing. and the hideous, six-headed monster." A demonic chief God who is everything 75% that Aslan is not. He has four arms, the head of a vulture and demands ritual 75% sacrifice, need I say more? 70% The Woman in Black Grendel Medusa THE WOMAN IN BLACK Beowulf Theogony Anonymous Date Unknown SUSAN HILL 1983 Hesiod 700 BC Approx. Pray you never encounter The Woman in Black; a malevolent spectre whose Grendel is a right pain, attacking King Hrothgar's mead-hall every evening. just as everyone is having a merry old knees-up. There is no reasoning with presence precedes terrible tragedies and autonomous rocking chairs. slithery haired ancient monster has struck fear into the heart of many a reader over the years. "Stone me, if it ain't old Medusa!" This 85% some demons... 80% 80% Count Dracula Nazgul Dementors Lord of DRACULA Ghe Prisoner the BRAM 8TOKER Rings 1897 of Azkaban JRR Golkien 1954 J.K Rowling 1999 "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, nine blokes in cloaks to Count Dracula is the original blood sucking alliumphobic; this bat/wolf/mist man sent shivers up many a spine with his dastardly ways. Dementor's feed on every happy thought and feeling until you are a shell of your former self. They also don't make the best kissing partners either! chase them all, except on a Saturdays, that's board games night." 90% 90% 85% Pennywise The Grand High Witch Cthulhu IT THE WITCHES Stephen King The Call of Cthulhu 1986 ROALD DAHL 1983 HP.Lovecraft 1928 The Grand High Witch can fire lasers from her eyes, not only that she A shapeshifting evil which appears as a cannibalistic clown preying on chil- dren during It. Tip: If you lose a paper sail boat down a drain, make another. Part octopus, part man and part dragon, this cosmic octomagon is not one you want to unleash on the world. Of course this is just what ends up happening. Earth through nefarious means. Those lasers though... wants to annihilate all children on 100% 95% 95% MORPHCOSTUMES www.morphsuits.co.uk www.electricliterature.com www.weirdworm.com www.britannica.com Sources myths.e2bn.org www.ncbi.nlm.nihgov/pubmed/8882393