Liber Monstrorum
Introduction
The Liber Monstrorum is a late seventh-or early eighth-century Anglo-Latin catalogue of marvellous creatures, which may be connected with the Anglo-Saxon scholar Aldhelm. It is transmitted in several manuscripts from the ninth and tenth centuries, but is often studied in connection with the more well known text Beowulf, since the Liber also mentions King Hygelac of the Geats and that he was renowned for his large size. The book contains extraordinary people, like Hygelac, some clearly historical reports of actual people, like the Ethiopians, and some obviously mythological reports, as in the cyclops and centaurs.
The Book of Monsters
- Angelus Lacrimarum
- Beasts
- Cults
- Demons
- Divine Host
- Djinn
- Doppelgänger
- Fae
- Familiars
- Fomori
- Gallû
- Ghosts
- Gods
- Gypsies
- Hellhounds
- Hunters
- Infernalists
- Kuei-jin -- Kuei-jin are the vampires of Asia presented in Kindred of the East. Other terms are Wan Kuei, Wan Xian, Gui Ren or simply the Hungry Dead.
- Mummies
- Necromantic Animations
- Nightwalker
- Oneiroi
- Plasmics -- Elementals of the Underworld.
- Revenants
- Risen
- Secret Societies
- Sin-eater
- Strotires
- The Changing Breeds
- Vampire Abomination
- Vampiric Proteges (ghouls)
- Wizards & Witches
