Top 5 of the scarriest creatures in books

     The world is a really scary place sometimes, but most of the time it’s our imagination that produces some of the most haunting thoughts, and sometimes, writers share those thoughts in the form of books, so we gathered a list of some of the scariest monsters in books, why? Because Halloween!

- Pennywise the dancing clown:

   Starting off our list, the main reason why most people are afraid of clown. Pennywise, bob gray or simply It was first mentioned in the horror novel “It” Stephen King. It is a shape-shifting alien whose existence is almost as old as time itself, who came to earth in an asteroid, and would sleep for 28 to 30 years, only to wake up causing chaos, and feeding on children’s fears. It is also worth mentioning that a remake of the movie IT is set to hit the big screen next year.

- The giant squid:

   Giant squids have been mentioned more than once in literature, but one of the more notable ones are the seven Giant squids that attacked Captain Nemo’s submarine the Nautilus in Jules Verne’s adventure novel Twenty thousand leagues under the sea.

- The Cthulhu:

   Another big monster with tentacles, the Cthulhu made our list because of his equally awesome and terrifying look. First appeared in a short story called The call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu is a hundreds of meters tall monster with an octopus like head, a human like body with a scaled skin and dragon wings, yeah awesome! No wonder the famous metal band Metallica made a song called The call of Cthulhu about him.

- Grendel:

   Grendel is one of the three main antagonists in the old English epic poem Beowulf. His appearance is a subject of debate as he was never directly described in the original poem, but it is known that he is a half man half monster, bigger than any man with a hard-scaled skin. The Grendel is also the descendent of the biblical Cain, the first murderer, and eats humans at night. He was slaughtered by the legendary warrior and later king Beowulf.

- Balrog:

   Balrogs are spirits seduced by the first dark lord of middle earth to his service, and took a humanoid physical form, only much greater. Balrogs were mentioned in some of J. R. R. Tolkien’s books, but the most famous encounter is when the fellowship of the ring had to go past him in order to cross the bridge of Khazad-dum in Moria. The monster was stopped by Gandalf the grey, but at the expense of his life (Gandalf NOOOO), he did comeback as Gandalf the white though.