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• Creatures of the Abyss (New York: Berkley Pub. Co., 1961), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Moon and the Sun (with other fiction), by Vonda N. McIntyre (multiple formats with commentary at vondamcintyre.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Sea Serpents: Wisconsin Occurrences of These Weird Water Monsters in the Four Lakes, Rock, Red Cedar, Koshkonong, Geneva, Elkhart, Michigan, and Other Lakes (Madison, WI: Wisconsin folklore society, 1942), by Charles E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Sea-Serpent: An Historical and Critical Treatise (1892), by A. C. Oudemans
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF (of reprint) at Wayback Machine
• Sea Monsters Unmasked (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1883), by Henry Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth (London: Rolfe and Fletcher, 1834), by Thomas Hawkins (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Letters from the Hon. David Humphreys, F. R. S. to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks ... : containing some account of the serpent of the ocean, frequently seen in Gloucester bay. (Kirk & Mercein, 1817), by David Humphreys and Joseph Banks (page images at HathiTrust)

• The great sea-serpent, upon the coast of New-England. In 1817. : With a portrait of his majesty. ([publisher not identified], 1818), by Neptune (page images at HathiTrust)

• The great sea-serpent, upon the coast of New-England. In 1817. : With a portrait of his majesty. ([publisher not identified], 1818), by Neptune (page images at HathiTrust)

• A true and perfect relation of the taking and destroying of a sea-monster as it was attested by Mr. Francis Searson, surgeon, who was present at the killing of him. ([London? : s.n., 1699?]), by Francis Searson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Strange news from Gravesend and Greenwich. being an exact and more full relation of two miraculous and monstrous fishes first discovered in Rainham Creek, and afterwards pursued by fishermen up the river of Thames, who with harping irons and fish-spears kill'd the biggest of them at Gravesend, which after thousands of people had view'd it, they hew'd in pieces and boyl'd in cauldrons for the oyl. The other was taken and kill'd at Greenwich, which being measured, was found to be one and twenty foot in length, and sixteen foot over. And likewise a less than either of these which was in company with them, which made his escape from the fishermen, and got away to sea again. This relation being attested by many thousands of eye-witnesses, which have seen them both. ([London] : Printed for J. Clarke at the Bible and Harp in Smithfield, [1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true report and exact description of a mighty sea-monster or whale, cast vpon Langar-shore ouer against Harwich in Essex, this present moneth of Februarie 1617. With a briefe touch of some other strange precedent and present occurents. (London : Printed for H. Holland and are to be sold by C. [Holland] at the Globe in Cornehill ouer against the Exchange, 1617) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A true and perfect account of the miraculous sea-monster, or, Wonderful fish lately taken in Ireland bigger than ox, yet without legs, bones, fins, or scales, with two heads, and ten horns of 10 or 11 foot long, on eight of which horns there grew knobs about the bigness of a cloak-button, in shape like crowns or coronets, to the number of 100 on each horn, which were all to open, and had rows of teeth within them ... : together with the manner how it first appeared and was taken at a place called Dingel Ichough ... / faithfully communicated by an eye witness. ([London?] : Printed for P. Brooksby and W. Whitwood, 1674), by Eye witness (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Young Jack Harkaway Fighting the Pirates of the Red Sea, by Bracebridge Hemyng (Gutenberg ebook)

• Flying Dutchman, junior. (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1906), by Curtis Dunham and George F. Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monsters of the sea, legendary and authentic (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1890), by John Gibson (page images at Florida)

• Report of a committee of the Linnaean Society of New England, relative to a large marine animal, supposed to be a serpent, seen near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August 1817 (Cummings and Hilliard, 1817), by Linnaean Society of New England (page images at HathiTrust)

• Great News From the West-Indies: Sent in a Letter to a Merchant of London, November the 28th, 1687 (London: Printed by H. Wallis, 1687), by F. H.
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • page images at Florida

• The Piebald Hippogriff, by Karen Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Sea Lady (illustrated; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902), by H. G. Wells, illust. by Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine (London: Methuen and Co., 1902), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The sea lady; a tissue of moonshine. (B. Tauchnitz, 1902), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tengerkisasszony: Vázlat, holdfényben (in Hungarian), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Frigyes Karinthy (Gutenberg ebook)

• Emerald Sea (c2004), by John Ringo (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free Library)

• David and the Phoenix, by Edward Ormondroyd, illust. by Joan Raysor (Gutenberg ebook)

• Prince of Wolves (Grey Wolves series, #1; 2011), by Quinn Loftis (multiple formats with commentary at smashwords.com)
• The Door of the Unreal (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Gerald Biss
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf (New York: Hurst and Co., ca. 1865), by George W. M. Reynolds (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Were-Wolf, by Clemence Housman, illust. by Laurence Housman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Wolf-Leader (London: Methuen, ca. 1904), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by A. R. Allinson, illust. by Frank Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The door of the unreal (Putnam, 1920), by Gerald Biss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The werewolf of Ponkert (Providence, Rhode Island : Grandon Company, 1958., 1958), by H. Warner Munn and Donald M. Grant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sudenmorsian : Hiidenmaalainen tarina (in Finnish), by Aino Kallas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Black hound of death, by Robert E. Howard, illust. by H. S. De Lay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wolf-Leader, by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by A. R. Allinson, illust. by Frank Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
• El Tresor del Vell Cavaller (in Catalan), by Erckmann-Chatrian, trans. by Joan Sitjar (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Thing in the Woods (London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Margery Williams Bianco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Thing in the Woods (US edition published under "Harper Williams" pseudonym; New York: R. McBride and Co., 1924), by Margery Williams Bianco (page images at HathiTrust)

• Behemoth (2004), by Peter Watts (multiple formats at rifters.com)
• Starfish (1999), by Peter Watts (PDF at rifters.com)

• Monster Hunter International (2009), by Larry Correia (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free Library)
• Frankenbook (2018), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed. by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert, contrib. by Charles E. Robinson (illustrated HTML with commentary at pubpub.org)
• The Greatest Adventure (c1929), by John Taine (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Lair of the White Worm (original unabridged 40-chapter version; London: W. Rider and Son, c1911), by Bram Stoker
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; illustrations missing
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Lair of the White Worm (abridged, partially rewritten 28-chapter version), by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg text)
• Number 87 (published under "Harrington Hext" pseudonym; New York: Macmillan, 1922), by Eden Phillpotts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Shadow of the Lion, by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• The Beetle (authorized American edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Richard Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beetle (London: T. F. Unwin Ltd., 1920), by Richard Marsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Beetle: A Mystery, by Richard Marsh, illust. by John Williamson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Frankenstein (critical edition, based on the 1818 and 1831 editions), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed. by Stuart Curran (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, illust. by Theodor Von Holst and Paul Gavarni
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • transcription of a photo-reprint, without frontispiece: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Frankenstein : or, The modern Prometheus (Cornhill Pub. Co., 1922), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus. (Gibbings;, 1897), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Prometheus. (G. Routledge & sons, 1888), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frankenstein or, The modern Prometheus (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.;, 1922), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The haunter of the dark, by H. P. Lovecraft (Gutenberg ebook)
• Out of the sea, by Leigh Brackett, illust. by John Giunta (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Joss: A Reversion, by Richard Marsh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 3 (of 3) (in French), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, trans. by Jules Saladin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 2 (of 3) (in French), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, trans. by Jules Saladin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 1 (of 3) (in French), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, trans. by Jules Saladin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose, trans. by Ernest J. B. Kirtlan, illust. by Frederic William Lawrence (Gutenberg ebook)
• Death of a B.E.M., by Berkeley Livingston (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'effrayante aventure (in French), by Jules Lermina (Gutenberg ebook)

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