Mythical Monsters of the World

Descripción
From the Loch Ness Monster to the Jersey Devil, the Japanese demon Oni to the Inuit ogress Amautalik—the world is full of mythical monsters. Our List of the Month this October is devoted to their stories. Each participant may vote on ten titles. Please only downvote titles if they do not fit the theme.
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Dark Lord of Derkholm
por Diana Wynne Jones
2,430 miembros
57 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 174
2 Members
lquilter, ManWithAnAgenda,Aquila ,
Explicaciones
Aquila : Not set in this world, thought there are visitors from here
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El Último Unicornio
por Peter S. Beagle
7,509 miembros
191 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 8
6 Members
Cecrow, Heather39, jsebrasky, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07, DoomLuz
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The Owl Service
por Alan Garner
1,951 miembros
46 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 49
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Boand
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Boand: A modern fairy tale based on characters from the ancient Welsh book The Mabinogion
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Frankenstein, o el moderno Prometeo
por Mary Shelley
42,571 miembros
709 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 1
20 Members
karenb, hipdeep, conceptDawg, lquilter, deckla, kleo, Cecrow, dougb56586, vwinsloe, al.vick, ahef1963, Michael.Rimmer, ManWithAnAgenda, elahrairah, Charon07, DoomLuz, loulourevisited, Thelamon1, pstgeorge2, awerling, ,yoyogod
Explicaciones
elahrairah: reminds us that monsters are mostly made by man.
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Empire of Wild
por Cherie Dimaline
530 miembros
36 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 133
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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Little Girls
por Nicholas Aflleje
46 miembros
4 reseñas
3.1
Ranking Global 149
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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Things in Jars
por Jess Kidd
962 miembros
42 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 62
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
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The Monster at the End of This Book
por Jon Stone
5,134 miembros
105 reseñas
½ 4.5
Ranking Global 12
7 Members
terran, Cecrow, EMS_24, ahef1963, jsebrasky, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling, ,yoyogod
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: I'd vote for this in a heartbeat for metafiction, but while Grover is undoubtedly a monster he is not mythical.
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Sir Gawain y el caballero verde
por Gawain Poet
7,843 miembros
104 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 7
7 Members
deckla, abbottthomas, sinki, tnilsson, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, AmbientSpiritLamb
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abbottthomas: The Green Knight is usually portrayed as very human-looking but he is green and can carry his lopped off head around so I guess he qualifies as monstrous.
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American Gods
por Neil Gaiman
33,585 miembros
931 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 10
7 Members
deckla, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, elahrairah, Yuki-Onna, Thelamon1, AmbientSpiritLamb,
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elahrairah: All of the myths, all at once.