10 Scariest Monsters In Literature

10 Scariest Monsters In Literature

10 Scariest Monsters In Literature: What features of a creature are particularly frightful. The power to kill is obviously one thing, but the creatures on this list go beyond.

A polyphemus (Greek mythology)

A polyphemus (Greek mythology)

Greek mythology featured a cyclops named Polyphemus. They were a race of brutal, vicious one-eyed giants that destroyed enormous ships with their bare hands.

Nazgul

Nazgul

Ringwraiths were formerly human beings who had evolved into dark, wicked beings. Only their ominous cloaks gave away their presence in our world; otherwise, they were undetectable.

Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein

Victor was a mad scientist, not the actual monster. He was the malicious genius who, after discovering the key to endless life, used it to animate a monster eight feet tall made of corpses.

Draugr

Draugr

The draugr were an extremely terrifying hybrid of a vampire, zombie, and ghost. They were evil undead beings that continued to exist after death in bloated, charred human corpses.

Shoggoth

Shoggoth

A shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with countless temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front.

Santa Clause

Santa Clause

Long before Christianity, a terrifying figure known as Nacht Rupert also known as Santa Claus, roamed the desolate countryside while wrapped in straw, sporting antlers, and decked with bells.

Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal Lecter

He is a cool, cunning man who devours his victims after killing them. He is aware of his bad nature and finds it entertaining.

Pennywise the Clown/It – (Stephen King’s It)

Pennywise the Clown/It – (Stephen King’s It)

Pennywise was the pinnacle of the terrifying clown stereotype. Although the creature in the story, it had several forms, he was the most recognizable and terrifying.

Dracula

Dracula

Although countless authors have attempted to make vampires frightening, no one has ever succeeded. All other vampire stories are merely poor imitations of Dracula, who was the original and best.

Pazuzu (The Exorcist)

Pazuzu (The Exorcist)

In his most powerful state, Pazuzu has a human body, a dog or lion’s head, wings, claws, and a scorpion’s tail. Pazuzu, however, who is portrayed in the book as a young Linda Blair, is quite frightening.