Monsters
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Monsters -- Early works to 1800
- Monsters -- Fiction
- Monsters -- Himalaya Mountains
- Monsters -- Japan
- Monsters -- Juvenile fiction
- Monsters -- North America
- Monsters -- Poetry
- Monsters -- Scotland
- Dragons
- Monsters in literature
- Sea monsters
- Vampires
- Freaks
- Monsters, Double
- Monstrosities
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Mythical Monsters (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Charles Gould- Natural History Lore and Legend (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895), by F. Edward Hulme (page images at Google; US access only)
- Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de Plusieurs Fameux Autheurs (2 volumes in 1, in French, first volume title page missing; Paris: I. de Bordeaux, 1571), ed. by Pierre Boaistuau, contrib. by Claude de Tesserant and François de Belleforest (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de Plusieurs Fameux Autheurs, Grecz et Latins, Sacrez et Prophanes (in French; Paris: I. Longis and Robert le Magnier, 1561), ed. by Pierre Boaistuau
- 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
- 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
- The Shadow of the Lion, by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
- The Beetle: A Mystery, by Richard Marsh (Gutenberg text)
- 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
- Star Dragon, by Mike Brotherton (multiple formats with commentary at mikebrotherton.com)
- 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)
- The Vampire Conspiracy (novelization of the screenplay; c2005), by Kirsten Levinson and Marc Morgenstern (PDF at buried.com)
- Digital Knight (c2003), by Ryk E. Spoor (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free Library)
- 13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale (2007), by David Wellington (HTML with commentary at archive.org)
- Vampire (New York: John Day Co., c1934), by Hanns Heinz Ewers, trans. by Fritz Sallagar
- Vampir: Ein Verwilderter Roman in Fetzen und Farben (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1922), by Hanns Heinz Ewers (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Blood of the Vampire (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1897), by Florence Marryat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Der Vampir: Roman (translated into German; Munich: A. Langen, c1914), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Leon Richter
- The House of the Vampire (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by George Sylvester Viereck (Gutenberg text)
- The Lady of the Shroud, by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg text)
- The Vampyre (story only), by John William Polidori (HTML at doyleandmacdonald.com)
- The Vampyre: A Tale (includes commentary; London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819), by John William Polidori
- Varney the Vampyre
- Dracula (based on the A. Constable edition, 1897), by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg text)
- Dracula (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1897), by Bram Stoker
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Co., c1961), by Ivan Terence Sanderson
- The Dragon in China and Japan, by Marinus Willem de Visser (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Monster at the End of This Book, by Jon Stone, illust. by Michael Smollin (page images at smollin.com)
- Another Monster at the End of This Book, by Jon Stone, illust. by Michael Smollin (page images at smollin.com)
- Horace (New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1951), by Elizabeth Urquhart, illust. by Rosita Pastor (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Father's Dragon (New York: Random House, c1948), by Ruth Stiles Gannett, illust. by Ruth Chrisman Gannett (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Book of Dragons (8-story collection reprinted by Dover), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar and Herbert Granville Fell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Seven Dragons and Other Stories, by E. Nesbit (HTML at Forgotten Futures)
- Beowulf, trans. by Francis Barton Gummere
- Beowulf (in modern and old English, with additional materials and commentary), ed. by Benjamin Slade (frame-dependent HTML at heorot.dk)
- Beowulf: Autotypes of the Unique Cottom Ms. Vitellius A XV in the British Museum, With a Transliteration and Notes (EETS original series #77; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner, 1882), ed. by Julius Zupitza (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem; The Fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment, ed. by James Albert Harrison, Robert Sharp, and Karl Hagen (Gutenberg texts)
- Dragons and Dragon Lore, by Ernest Ingersoll (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Evolution of the Dragon (Manchester, the University Press; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919), by Grafton Elliot Smith
- The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction: Histories, Origins, Theories (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2014), by Jarlath Killeen
- 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
- 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)
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