Top 10 Fictional Monsters

Halloween’s Trick or Treat: The annual event which gets people of all ages to feel the need to try and scare the hell out of anyone they meet, even themselves if needs be. This tradition has inspired and infested our society with horrific monstrosities brought into existence for one purpose: to confuse, stupefy, scare, shock and disturb. So, for your reading pleasure, we have tried to distinguish the Top Ten Monsters that have ever been thought up…

10. Zombies

They have literally been infecting our media with the persistent fear of infection for as long as we can remember. As the mindless reanimated dead, they thirst for human brains. Who can say that it would be easy to see a family member or friend walking around like a flesh-crazed vegetable? Now imagine being one yourself. I think I’ll stick to killing them Nazi Zombies thank you very much.

9. Loch Ness Monster

Yes, okay, this may or may not be fiction but it has been publicised fervently throughout the years. The legend has sent Cryptozoologists (look it up, it’s a real thing) mad trying to find evidence of any kind. However, I bet that if we ever find one, it will be more anticlimactic than a ceaseless drumroll.

8. Alien

Here’s another typical form of monster, the Alien. Preying on humanities’ fear of the unknown and of the unexpected it more than deserves a place on this list. Ripley’s Aliens are some of the most horrifying monsters that human minds have dared create. If they are out there, let’s hope that they’re nothing like them.

7. Vampires

For a long time Vampires have arguably been the most popular, but to go from Bram Stoker to Stephenie Meyer, you can tell something has can wrong with these Gothic Legends along the way. The seductive nature of a vampire is one of the most terrifying things about them (originally, sucking a young woman’s blood was an analogy for rape), as well as most of their appeal. These are the self-proclaimed Princes of Darkness and despite their age, they’ve still got it.

6. Jabberwocky

Lewis Carroll’s flying monster can be nothing but blood-curdling on the first encounter. Carroll’s neologisms of ‘frabjous’ or ’galumphing’ aren’t scary at all. However, this monster looks and feels scary, probably just because of that. I’d rather meet a vampire in the middle of an alley than a Jabberwocky any day.

5. Demons/Evil Spirits

Taking the Judeo-Christian usage of demon as a malignant spirit that can seduce, afflict, or possess humans we get some paranormal activity with our heart-rates. They play on our fear of helplessness to the unknown because we simply don’t know if they exist.

4. Grendel

Beowulf’s first monster, Grendel went into soldiers’ camps as they slept and devoured them because he got annoyed with their singing. Irrational monsters are always the scariest, especially when they can’t be hurt by human weaponry…

3. Bateman

Patrick Bateman, the monster behind American Psycho, is the most horrifying monster of the modern age. He is the human embodiment of evil, disembowelling his lovers and hacking work-mates to bits whilst listening to Huey Lewis and The News. Yet the scariest thing about him is the façade: his clean-cut 1980s wall-street yuppie mask. Believe me, he’ll make women think twice about their next one-night-stand.

2. It

For those of you who don’t know, this un-pictured thing is the brain child of horror legend Stephen King. I honestly can’t tell you much about the creature without giving away the entire novel and film. All to be said is: an evil alien awakens in 1957 and takes the form of a clown named Pennywise. Amongst other things…

1. Satan

To clarify, this is Satan from Milton’s Paradise Lost; the physical embodiment of all that is evil and cruel. Yet, he is also devilishly entertaining. Let’s be honest, you couldn’t have a single one of the above entries if they couldn’t be related to Satan. To be the best fictional monster, you must lack of goodness and kindness of heart, which is the definition of what Satan is.

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