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• Beowulf, trans. by Francis Barton Gummere
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
• 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)

• Beowulf, trans. by Francis Barton Gummere
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Beowulf (in modern and old English, with additional materials and commentary), ed. by Benjamin Slade (frame-dependent HTML at heorot.dk)
• Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem; The Fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment, ed. by James Albert Harrison, Robert Sharp, and Karl Hagen (Gutenberg texts)
• 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)

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

• Mythical Monsters (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Charles Gould
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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: 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • transcription of a photo-reprint, without frontispiece: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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
  • HTML here at Penn
  • Gutenberg text and audio
• Der Vampir: Roman (translated into German; Munich: A. Langen, c1914), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Leon Richter
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • audio reading at Librivox and archive.org
• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Varney the Vampyre
  • entire work: HTML with commentary at 50megs.com
  • entire work: HTML at Wayback Machine
  • first 96 chapters: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Dracula (based on the A. Constable edition, 1897), by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg text)
• Dracula (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1897), by Bram Stoker
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • 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)

• 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
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction: Histories, Origins, Theories (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2014), by Jarlath Killeen
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• 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)

• The Vampire, by Henry Steel Olcott (HTML in Brazil)
• Vampires and Vampirism (London: W. Rider and Son, 1914), by Dudley Wright (Gutenberg text)

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