/lit/ - Literature

>>23005906
Geryon brings us to the half-way point, if I count correctly.


2) Behemoth (Master and Margarita)
3) Balrog (The Fellowship of the Ring)
4) Chimera (Theogony)
5) Pennywise (It)

6) Shark (Jaws)
9) Cthulhu (The Call of Cthulhu)
10) Headless horseman (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)

12) Crocodile (Peter Pan)
13) Geryon (Inferno)
14) Dracula (Dracula)
15) Nag (Rikki Tikki Tavi)

17) Chun the Unavoidable (Dying Earth)
19) Roc (Tales of 1001 Nights)

27) Medusa (Metamorphoses)
29) Mako shark (The Old Man and the Sea)
30) Sandworm (Dune)

31) The swine-creature (The House on the Borderland)
32) The Jabberwock (Through the Looking-Glass)
33) Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw)
34) AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

37) Basilisk (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
38) Cenobites (The Hellbound Heart)
39) Creature (Frankenstein)

46) Wendigo (The Wendigo)
47) Windmills (Don Quixote)

51) Questing Beast (The Once and Future King)
53) Grendel (Grendel)
55) Tuunbaq (The Terror)

56) T-Rex (Jurassic Park)
57) Scylla (The Odyssey)
59) Baba Yaga (Baba Yaga)

60) Red Death (The Masque of the Red Death)

64) Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal (The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy)

66) Iron man (The Iron Man)
68) Cuttlefish (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
70) Mr Hyde (Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde)

71) Mr Dark (Something Wicked This Way Comes)

76) Minotaur (The House of Asterion)
77) Coppelius (The Sandman)

82) Alien (Who Goes There?)
83) Satan (Paradise Lost)
84) Hound (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
85) Archatron (Stella Maris)

88) Centipede (Dr. No)

91) White ape (A Princess of Mars)
92) Heffalump (Winnie the Pooh)
93) Caliban (The Tempest)
94) Fenris wolf (The prose Edda)

96) 666 (The Book of Revelation)
100) Bear (The Bear)

>>22249266
I'll ignore your cheap aroma
And your Little-Bo-Peep diploma
I'll just put you in a coma with some dirty love

>>21431704
>42 is The Red Badge of Courage
Right. "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

>>21431719
>65 is The Thought Fox, Hughes
Right:
"I imagine this midnight moment's forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock's loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move."

>>21431722
>77 is Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
Correct. "Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls."

>>21431726
>90 is Atonement, McEwan
Right. "The play – for Which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crêpe paper – was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch." Another tricky one I think. Used to be quite a well-known novel but probably it's getting forgotten.

>>21431732
>30 is Suttree
Correct. Cormac going Full Cormac right out of the gate: "Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you."

>>21431740
>47 is Brighton Rock
Correct. Graham Greene: "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him."

>>21431742
>89 is Snake
D.H.Lawrence, right.
"A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat,
To drink there."

Well done /lit/, and Merry Christmas to all.

>>20430206
There's nothing that leaves me so bilious
As those who are over-punctilious:
I don't need you telling
Me off for my spelling —
It just makes you look soupersillyus.

>>20028269

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>>17591673
Eat shit, newfag

>>17584276
Eat shit