Monsters

A monster is often a type of grotesque creature, whose appearance frightens and whose powers of destruction threaten the human world's social or moral order.

A monster can also be like a human, but in folklore, they are commonly portrayed as the lowest class, as mutants, deformed, supernatural, and otherworldly.

Animal monsters are outside the moral order, but sometimes have their origin in some human violation of the moral law (e.g. in the Greek myth, Minos does not sacrifice the white bull Poseidon sent him to the god, so as punishment Poseidon makes Minos' wife, Pasiphaë, fall in love with th
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Hazelthorn
King Sorrow
The Devil She Knows
Road Trip With a Vampire (My Vampires, #3)
Kill the Beast
Blind Date with a Werewolf
Dealing with a Desperate Demon (The Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures, #2)
An Amateur Witch's Guide to Murder
Xantera (Guardians & Monsters, #1)
The Midnight Knock
The Works of Vermin
Slayers of Old
A Heart So Haunted
The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet
To Free a Soul (Duskwalker Beginnings #2)
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
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Monstrilio
Secrets of the Void (Deep Waters #5)
The Inheritance (Breach Wars, #1)
The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #7)
He Who Fights with Monsters 9 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #9)
He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #8)
He Who Fights with Monsters 11 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #11)
The Primal Hunter 7 (The Primal Hunter #7)
He Who Fights with Monsters 10 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #10)
Unbound (Confluence Academy, #1)
A Requiem for Fallen Stars (Cadence of the Fallen, #1)
The Primal Hunter 9 (The Primal Hunter #9)
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Best Monster Books!
575 books — 521 voters
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Horror: 101
75 books — 77 voters


A Soul to Keep (Duskwalker Brides, #1)
Morning Glory Milking Farm (Cambric Creek, #1)
The Dragon's Bride (A Deal With a Demon, #1)
Soul Eater (Monstrous, #1)
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Luxuria (Shades of Sin, #1)
A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor (Tempting Monsters, #1)
Where the Wild Things Are
A Soul to Heal (Duskwalker Brides, #2)
Ensnared (The Spider's Mate, #1)

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What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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