Most Read This Week In Monsters

A monster is often a type of grotesque creature, whose appearance frightens and whose powers of destruction threaten the human world's social or moral order.

A monster can also be like a human, but in folklore, they are commonly portrayed as the lowest class, as mutants, deformed, supernatural, and otherworldly.

Animal monsters are outside the moral order, but sometimes have their origin in some human violation of the moral law (e.g. in the Greek myth, Minos does not sacrifice the white bull Poseidon sent him to the god, so as punishment Poseidon makes Minos' wife, Pasiphaë, fall in love with th ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Monsters"

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He Who Fights with Monsters 10 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #10)

The Primal Hunter 9 (The Primal Hunter #9)

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The Primal Hunter 12 (The Primal Hunter #12)

He Who Fights with Monsters 11 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #11)

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The Primal Hunter 8 (The Primal Hunter #8)

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The Primal Hunter 7 (The Primal Hunter #7)

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A Requiem for Fallen Stars (Cadence of the Fallen, #1)

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Defiance of the Fall 4 (Defiance of the Fall, #4)

I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200

Defiance of the Fall 5 (Defiance of the Fall, #5)

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Azarinth Healer: Book Four (Azarinth Healer, #4)

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 9

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Between a Rock and a Carapace (Chrysalis, #4)

Of Swamp & Sea, Volume One (Of Swamp & Sea, #1)

The Church Beneath the Roots (Stolen Tongues, #0)

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4

Castle of Nevers and Nightmares (Fae Devils, #1)

The Pit and the Box (The Boy in the Iron Box, #2)

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 5

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To Free a Soul (Duskwalker Beginnings #2)

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“ What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. ”
― Charles Baudelaire

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