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Neil Gaiman Shares Top 10 Classic Monsters

by Alexandra on July 23rd, 2008

Science fiction and fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has weighed in with his Top 10 new Classic Monsters list. EW asked guest writers to contribute their own top 10 lists for the amazing special 100th issue.

I’m delighted with this match-up of Neil Gaiman and monsters! I should warn you, this is a somewhat contemporary list, and albeit accurate one as for me. In some instances I linked to the picture from the list. However, I also linked to a better image if it were available.

Some of his monsters may be the very ones that have been lurking in your own subconscious:

1. The (comic character) Swamp Thing from 1984-87 Moore/Bisette/Totleben comic  - crusty and massive indeed!
2. Willem Dafoe’s Max Schreck in Shadow of The Vampire (2000) - Willem Dafoe is totally transformed in this role.
3. The Weeping Angels in the 2007 Doctor Who episode, Blink - Looks quite malevolent.
4. The character Hannibal Lecter in the Thomas Harris novels
5. Grendel in Beowulf (2007)
6. Eugene Tooms, the immortal liver- eating mutant from The X-Files episodes, Squeeze and Tooms. - these episodes were pivotal in the movement of the mythology of the series.
7. The Nightbreed from Clive Barker’s film, The Nightbreed (1990)
8. Pennywise the clown from Stephen King’s film, It (1986) -1986 maybe have been the very year that clowns became scary.
9. The Pale Man in Pan’s Labrynth (2006) - the creature with eyeballs in its hands.
10. The character Craddock McDermott from the novel, Heart Shaped Box (2007)

So what did you think of his list? No. 6 and No. 8 definitely struck a cord with me for scariest!

Via EW; Image via Newscom

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