Monsters vs Human Monsters
As I was making the list it struck me that I found VERY few monster books where the monster is particularly evil (mostly darker horror/slasher films or books). In most "monster stories" it's almost always the humans doing the bad things and the monsters reacting. We know this. It's been a part of SF and Horror stories dating back since at least Mary Shelley's Frankenstein which many count as the beginnings of horror writing. (And if you haven't read Frankenstein, you should as it is nothing like the movies). So here is my look at the SF/Horror/Dark Fantasy list of monsters and monstrous humans....see who you think is truly the monster of the story. **to clarify the categories, I organized them by who the main character is (or at least one of them) "MONSTERS"--aka Non-Humans The Soul Eater, Wyn, is exactly that, he finds humans and sucks their soul out, leaving only a husk behind. Why he does this, no one knows for sure but OBVIOUSLY, it's b
