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A modern representation of this dragon can be found in the 'Final Fantasy' game series as the giant Adamantoise enemies.
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...ton warriors''' are a common fictional monster archetype common in western fantasy literature, television, and video games.
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The name has been reused in ''Final Fantasy XI''.
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* Allardice, Pamela. Myths, Gods and Fantasy: A Sourcebook. Dorset, Prism Press, 1991.
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* In the fantasy book series The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind, the agiel is used as a we
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...rting with the ballet ''Swan Lake'' and continuing in modern novels of the fantasy genre such as ''Three Hearts and Three Lions'' and television such as ''Ast
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*Utuk'ku is the name given to the wicked queen of the Norns in Tad Williams' fantasy trilogy ''Memory, Sorrow and Thorn''.
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...ing, especially a human being. In modern English today, it is also used in fiction for human-like creatures.
...ve an impression of archaism and mystery in literature, for example in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, where wights are corpses with a part of their decayed
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...Sith is a character that plays an important role in the storyline of Final Fantasy XI's expansion: Wings of the Goddess
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* Buer is portrayed in a Polish fantasy movie "Dzieje Mistrze Twardowskiego" ("The Story of Master Twardowski") abo
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* Valefor appears as an aeon in the videogame Final Fantasy X as a harpy/cockatrice creature.
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*The Chonchon also makes an appearance in the MMORPGs ''Final Fantasy XI'' and ''Mabinogi'' as a featherless birdlike creature.
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===Modern fantasy===
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...identified them as Rokuro-Kubi, an error that also appears in the Fighting Fantasy book, Sword of the Samurai. Rokuro-kubi are another type of Japanese monste
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* In the fantasy-terror movie Hideaway (U.S.A., 1995, dir. Brett Leonard, starring Jeff Gold
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...t. These overlapping terms may be distinguished by some traditions or some fiction writers. When such distinctions are made, sorcerers are more often practiti
For a combination of reasons, including those above, authors of [[fantasy fiction]] have often muddled the meaning of each of the terms (especially when the
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A sluglike monster in the Final Fantasy series is named Lou Carcolh after the legendary monster snail.
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...d Transformation in Deer Myths, Legends, and Songs'' by Ari Berk Realms of Fantasy magazine, 2003
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...they can also be from any creature or fantasy race found on Earth or in a fantasy world.
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*In the PlayStation 2 game ''Final Fantasy X'' and ''Final Fantasy X-2'', the aeon Yojimbo had a shisaa, Daigoro, as his companion. Yuna gains
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In modern fantasy fiction, a '''lich''' (or '''liche''') is an animated corpse commanded by the spiri
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*It has also appeared in multiple Final Fantasy games as either a powerful monster later in the games or as the summoned cr
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...dered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction.
...has also written a book-length study, ''Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction'' (2001), and edited ''The Count of Thirty'' (Necronomicon Press 1994), whi
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*The creature commonly appears in the bestiaries of fantasy role-playing games like ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and ''[[Warhammer]]'', w
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* Count Raum also appears as a killable "Kindred Demon" in the game: Final Fantasy XI
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* Hitodamas were the basis for the Pyreflies of the Final Fantasy X series, carried into the Kingdom Hearts series in the Underworld.
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...aming of the creatures known as the Ringwraiths has influenced creators of fantasy and horror novels, television shows, and games, who use it with its meaning
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'''Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter''' is a series of '''horror fiction'''/'''dark fantasy''' novels created by author [[Laurell K. Hamilton]] and narrated in first p
In the fiction Anita Blake is also known as ''the Executioner''.
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In the GMA Network's fantasy television series ''Encantadia and Mulawin'', Diwatas are a race of superna
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*Belief in Drekavac is sometimes described in modern fiction. An example is a short story by [[wikipedia:Branko Copic]] ''Brave Mita and
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...y 19, 1963) is an American [[horror fiction|horror]] and science fiction/[[fantasy]] writer. She was born in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in Sims, Indi
...ernate history (a subset of [[science fiction]]), [[fantasy]], or [[Horror fiction|horror]]. The dialog and hard-boiled first-person viewpoint has been compa
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...faeries of the air. Fantasy authors will sometimes employ sylphs in their fiction.
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* In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI, Berith (known in game as Duke Berith) is a Demon Red Mage "Notorious Mo
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* In the PlayStation game Final Fantasy Tactics, Kamaitachi is one of the elemental abilities of the Geomancer Clas
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==Gargoyles in fiction==
In contemporary fiction, gargoyles are typically depicted as a winged humanoid race with demonic fe
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*In '''Final Fantasy IX''', the leader of Tantalus is named Baku.
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...ost cultures and in many works of fiction, especially fantasy and [[horror fiction]].
In fiction and folklore, undead creatures are often hostile toward the living. Defendi
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...works of literature. Today, variants of ogres can be found in most modern fantasy games
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Shax appeared twice in the fantasy WB drama "Charmed" where he was manifested as the demonic, personal assassi
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...tish author [[Storm Constantine]] authored the [[Grigori Trilogy]], a dark fantasy series that builds upon the Watcher legend and the work of [[UFO]] writer [
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...finding and destroying [[vampire]]s and sometimes other creatures of dark fantasy as well.
However, the vampire hunter has found popularity in fiction and popular culture.
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...each more powerful than the previous. This typology, though widely used in fiction and role-playing games appears to be of Europe an origin and has no real ba
...''[[wikipedia:Devil May Cry]]'', Ifrit is a demon of fire (as in the Final Fantasy series), manifested in the form of gauntlets used by [[wikipedia:Dante (Dev
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...me magical power, or are simply there to advance the story. In many modern fantasy stories, a magician's familiar is a magical creature, such as Vlad's flying
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* Imps are commonly featured in the [[Final Fantasy]] series of RPGs and were synonymous with [[goblin]]s early in the series (
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...hree breeds of monster resembling a tree in the original [[wikipedia:Final Fantasy Tactics]] for the [[Playstation]].
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==Ghouls in fiction==
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*The Dullahan is portrayed in fantasy fiction and video games as a beheaded knight who carries his severed head under one
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...haracter in ''The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'' (Alan Garner), a young-adult fantasy set in Alderley Edge in Cheshire.
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* The Two Courts are heavily used in Mercedes Lackey's modern fantasy works (the Bedlam's Bard and SERRAted Edge series).
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...book ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', a part of his children's fiction/fantasy series ''The Chronicles of Narnia''.
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...al Fantasy'' series, most notably in ''Final Fantasy Tactics'' and ''Final Fantasy Tactics Advance'', Redcaps appear and they are considered members of the go
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...* Hellhounds (called darkhounds) appear several times in Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time. Darkhounds are a particularly nasty form of Shado
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...the point of exhaustion or [[death]] of the victim. From [[mythology]] and fantasy, [[Lilith]] and the [[Lilin]] (Jewish), [[Lilith|Lilitu]] (Sumerian) and [[
The succubus is a popular figure in modern fantasy fiction.
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...tory was popularised by Terry Pratchett's 1998 book Carpe Jugulum, a comic fantasy novel making extensive use of vampire legends. Pratchett has stated that he
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'''Science fiction''' is a genre of fiction in which at least part of the narrative depends on the impact of science, e
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...as a random encounter, dating back to the original. In the original Final Fantasy, up to four could be encountered at once.
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*Lamashtu is also a creature that appears in '''Final Fantasy X''' on ''Mushroom Rock Road''.
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...orges's original description is a minor villain in ''The Cinnabar Box'', a fantasy novel by Ilil Arbel. It attempts to abduct the heroine of the novel, but sh
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Thus Oberon appears in a 13th century French courtly fantasy that is based on a shred of 9th century fact. He is given some Celtic trapp
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* In the MMORPG ''Final Fantasy XI'', the leshy is a monster that appears as a giant, vaguely humanoid and
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* The Simurgh has appeared in Squaresoft's Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XI computer games as enemy and notorious enemy respectively.
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*Echidna appears as a boss monster in ''Final Fantasy III'' and ''Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls''.
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*In Jim Butcher's urban fantasy series of novels, the ''Dresden Files'', Queen Mab is one of six Faerie que
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* A monster named La Velue is an enemy creature in the Final Fantasy series. However, it only shares the dragon's name and has nothing of its ap
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*Fantasy author [[Tad Williams]] retells the story of Caliban from his point of view
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*Abaddon is a monster in the ''Final Fantasy'' video game franchise.
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* In the ''Dungeons and Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game system, a noppera-bo (also called mujina there) appear as
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...er legendary creatures, the manticore is a popular monster and allegory in fiction:
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* The latest edition of the ''Warhammer Fantasy Battle'' game gives the name Strigoi to a bloodline of monstrous vampires,
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...s of the [[Light Elf|Light Elves]] (or High Elves) in many mythologies and fantasy settings. They are often at war with other elves.
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...ice''' (born October 4th 1941) is a best-selling American author of horror/fantasy books. She was born '''Howard Allen O'Brien'''. Best known for her [[Vampir
...ia on August 5, 1972. Rice has said that Claudia, the child in her vampire fiction, was inspired by her late daughter. Their son Christopher Rice, now a novel
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...ine.<ref name="supernatural">Bleiler, Everett. ''The Guide to Supernatural Fiction'' (Kent State University Press; 1983) p.272</ref><ref name="nightwerecat">S
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...[[United States|American]] [[screenwriter]], most famous for his [[science fiction]] [[television series|TV series]], ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''. The second o
...himself into weekly television. He stated in an interview that the science fiction format would not be controversial and would escape censorship unlike the ea
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* The Nuckelavee appears in the Arthurian fantasy novel ''The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady'' as a guardian of Avalon that
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...ame series, known as the ''Netherrealm''. It has influenced several gothic fiction texts.
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*In the video game ''Final Fantasy VIII,'' Quetzalcoatl is a lightning-based elemental creature that can be su
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...Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" (1928); however, in Lovecraft's fiction, she is never actually described, but is frequently mentioned or called upo
Shub-Niggurath sometimes appears or is alluded to in fiction that falls outside the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror. Some of the ''[[Doct
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In fiction, the Melusine legend is part of A.S. Byatt's Possession. One of the main ch
...usader kingdoms of the Eastern Mediterranean, weaving together history and fiction, with elements of myth, folklore, and popular traditions fused with epic, C
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...h appears as a monstrous "time worm" feeding on human misery in Pat Mills' fantasy series Sláine.
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...ates dread among the living. Zombies have become a staple of modern horror fiction, where they usually engage in the consumption of human flesh. The term "zom
==Zombies in literature and fiction==
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...stituted people, and/or changelings, appear in a number of modern works of fiction - books, films, television, games, and elsewhere.
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In the video game Final Fantasy IX, Puck is a mischievous Burmecian who shows up numerous times throughout
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...the title of a radio drama that was broadcast on Chicago's WGN-AM "Hall of Fantasy"* series. However, reports of beings fitting the description of shadow peop
* "The Forbidden Game" trilogy by L.J. Smith (fiction)
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*Final Fantasy VI (Super Famicom) - Kappa appear in this game as a foe; in the English-lan
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...ight colours, favouring yellow and green. Nowadays (according to Tolkien's fiction), they are very shy creatures, but they are and have been capable of amazin
...Hobbits hardly ever wear shoes. Hobbits (and derivative Halflings in other fantasy settings) are often depicted with large feet for their size, perhaps to vis
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...he [[goblin]]s of Tolkien's Middle-earth and other works of modern fantasy fiction.
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...''Mistral's Kiss'' as a "C+", writing that the novel "reads sorta like fan fiction" and that although "everyone will enjoy the marathon, 40-page opening sex s
...tive review, observing that "Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton's brand of erotic fantasy will delight in this book . . . . If you haven't been following the Merry G
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...d used to refer to various tough and warlike humanoid creatures in various fantasy settings, particularly in the stories of Middle-earth written by J. R. R. T
...ord of the Rings, creatures called "orcs" have become a fixture of fantasy fiction and role-playing games. In these derivative sources, orcs and goblins are u
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*In fantasy novels the view of centaurs has sometimes been changed from barbarism to an
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...ngeons & Dragons''''' (abbreviated as '''''D&D''''' or '''''DnD''''') is a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game (RPG) published by Wizards of the Coast. The ori
...r Peaks'' was one of the few adventures released by TSR to include science-fiction elements, such as ray guns and robots.]]
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* Pixies commonly appear in popular culture. Fantasy books and movies such as ''The Black Cauldron'' feature the creatures. In f
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*The '''Pooka''' is a ghost horse in ''Crewel Lye'', a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony.
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...ia) is an American writer. He is best known as a prolific and best-selling fiction author of popular suspense novels.
...ublished in 1968. From there he went on to write over a dozen more science fiction novels.
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Christopher Stasheff wrote a series of science fiction/fantasy novels about a technological warlock, beginning with ''The Warlock in Spite
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The idea of doppelgängers is also seen in fiction involving time travel and parallel universes. In this case, the doppelgän
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...pposed to a personal protector). In this guise Cerberus features widely in fiction and cultural works from the Middle Ages (in Dante's [[Divine Comedy]], in C
*In '''Final Fantasy VIII''', one of the Guardian Forces was a three headed dog called Cerberus.
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...nian Tiger, in the PlayStation and Playstation 2 games Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy X and Culdcept. In a version of The Sims 2 and other game references, Anima
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