From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly market.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• List of Entries
• Introduction
• A
• Angel
• Animals, Monstrous
• Arabian Nights, Monsters In The
• B
• Banshee
• Basilisk
• Bates, Norman
• Bathory, Countess
• Beast, (Beauty and the)
• Behemoth
• Bell Witch, The
• Bible, Monsters In The
• Bigfoot
• Birds, Giant
• Blair Witch
• Blob, The
• Body Parts
• Bronze Horseman
• Brownie
• Bunyip
• C
• Caliban
• Carmilla
• Cenobites
• Centaur
• Cerberus
• Children, Monstrous
• Children's Literature, Monsters In
• Chimera
• Christine
• Chucky
• Chupacabra
• Circe
• Cockatrice
• Collins, Barnabas
• Creature from the Black Lagoon, The
• Cryptid
• Cyborg
• Cyclops
• D
• Damned Thing, The
• Dante, Monsters In
• Death, Personified
• Demons
• Medieval Demons
• British and Irish Demons
• North American Demons
• European and Russian Demons
• African and Caribbean Demons
• South Asian Demons
• Chinese Demons
• Japanese Demons
• Devil Bug
• Devil, The
• Dinosaur
• Div
• Djinn and Genie
• Donestre
• Doppelganger
• Dracula
• Dragon
• Dungeons & Dragons, Monsters In
• Dvoinik
• Dwarf
• Dweller on the Threshold
• Dybbuk
• E
• Elemental
• Elf
• Empousa
• Extraterrestrial
• F
• Fairy
• Faun and Satyr
• Fly, The
• Frankenstein's Monster
• Furies
• G
• Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Gargoyle
• Ghost
• Classical and Medieval Ghost
• European and Russian Ghost
• Great Britain and Ireland's Ghosts
• United States and Canadan Ghosts
• Latin American Ghosts
• African and the Caribbean Ghosts
• South Asian Ghosts
• Southeast Asian Ghosts
• China's Ghosts
• Japan's Ghosts
• Ghoul
• Giant
• Gibbelin
• Goblin
• Godzilla
• Golem
• Gorgons
• Gray, Dorian
• Gremlin
• Grendel and Grendel's Mother
• Griffin
• H
• Harpy
• Harry Potter, Monsters In
• Haunted House
• Headless Horseman, The
• Hermaphrodite
• Hippogriffin
• Homunculus
• Hop-Frog
• Horla, The
• Hyde, Edward
• Hydra
• I
• Imp
• Incubus/Succubus
• Invisible Man, The
• J
• Jabberwock
• Jack the Ripper
• Johnson, Henry
• K
• Kappa
• King Kong
• Kitsune
• Koran, Monsters In The
• Kraken
• Krueger, Freddy
• L
• Lamia
• Lecter, Hannibal
• Leprechaun
• Lestat de Lioncourt
• Leviathan
• Lilith
• Llorona, La
• Loch Ness Monster
• Lovecraft, Monsters In
• M
• Maenad
• Mahābhārata, Monsters In
• Manitou
• Manticore
• Marsh, Arabella
• Matilda
• Medusa
• Melmoth the Wanderer
• Mephistopheles
• Mermaid/Merman
• Micromegas
• Minotaur
• Moby Dick
• Moloch
• Monkey King
• Mummy
• Mutant and Freak
• Myers, Michael
• N
• Nick of the Woods
• Nosferatu
• O
• Objects, Animate
• Oboroten’
• Ogopogo
• Ogre
• Oni
• P
• Pan
• Parasite
• Pegasus
• Phantom of the Opera, The
• Phoenix
• Pinhead
• Pixie
• Plants, Monstrous
• Poltergeist
• Psychopath
• Q
• Qilin
• Quasimodo
• R
• Races, Monstrous
• Robot
• Ruthven, Lord
• S
• Samsa, Gregor
• Sandman, The
• Scylla and Charybdis
• Sea Monsters
• Shapeshifter
• Shuten Dōji
• Siren
• Skeleton
• Sphinx, The
• Swift, Jonathan, Monsters In (Gulliver)
• T
• Tanuki
• Tengu
• Tiamat
• Titan
• Tolkien, Monsters In
• Triffid
• Troglodyte
• Troll
• Typhoeus
• U
• Upyr’
• V
• Vampire
• Varney the Vampire
• Vaughan, Helen
• Video Games, Monsters In
• Virus
• Voorhees, Jason
• W
• Wandering Jew, The
• Werewolf
• Wild Things
• Windigo
• Witch/Wizard
• Witches and Wizards in European Literature and Film
• British Witches and Wizards
• Witches and Wizards in Russian Literature and Film
• Witches and Wizards in US Literature and Film
• Witches and Wizards in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Film
• African and Caribbean Witches and Wizards
• Women, Monstrous
• Wraith
• Y
• Yowie
• Z
• Ziz
• Zombie