Players can now choose from monstrous fire-cats, the Charr; the dwarven Asura; werefolk Norn; tree-like Sylvari or the (yawn) humans.
Hogarth's print The First Stage of Cruelty (1751) shows boys in a London street inflicting monstrous tortures on cats and dogs.
The most chilling detail in "The Black Cat," a vision so alluringly monstrous that it should simply be seen, involves the brilliantly simple use of glass as a sort of Freudian sexualization of Poelzig's diabolical pathology.
He moved backwards nervously, like a frightened cat trying to understand the monstrous figure crossing its path.
Ben Arnold Peter Serafinowicz, Mathew Horne and Kylie Minogue star in this comedy-drama about the cast of a new Andy Warhol musical putting up with Serafinowicz's monstrous star turn, until the theatre's mysterious cat gets involved.
Songs like Reapers have it all: tangled cat's cradle guitar from Bellamy, monstrous heaviosity from the rhythm section, and an extended metaphor in which the parallels between remote aerial bombardment and a controlling relationship are wrung satisfyingly dry.
The Sonoran is a sprawling wilderness in southern Arizona where tall grass and cacti hide monstrous animals like the spiky-haired javelin, the cat-like raccoon called the coatimundi, and the tarantula hawk, a wasp so big it feasts on the giant arachnids.
While Mr. Chabon's convoluted narrative has been streamlined and some of its charming shaggy-dog tangents sheared away, the heart of the novel -- a cat's cradle of comic entanglements involving Grady's collapsing marriage, his monstrous manuscript and his duty to help a troubled fledgling writer -- has been carefully preserved.
He has a constant, unblinking fixed grin, diminished capacity for emotional intimacy, a cat for a best friend, and can often be found whistling his own theme tune like a monstrous narcissist.
In Ted, priests can be manic depressives, closet neo-Nazis, cat burglars, over-enthusiastic youth leaders (as played by an up-and-coming Graham Norton) or, like the monstrous Father Fintan Stack, sadists who play jungle music at 3am and are "worse than Hitler".
