Monsters in fiction

Monsters, conventionally a horror staple, appear throughout a number of different forms of fiction.
== History ==
Monsters has existed in fiction since the origins of human storytelling and it is impossible to discern when the first fictionalized monster is created. Early religion and mythology often had monsters and in the Roman and Greek religions, they were often representative of "divine displeasure". Defects were thought to be a "malfunctioning of nature" and even snakes' lack of legs and birds ability to fly were considered monstrous by Suetonius, though not necessarily evil or wrong.
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