What do we love about Fantasy? The monsters.

Fantasy has a lot of monsters. Sure, they turn up in science fiction from time to time, but nuclear mutations aside, enormous beasties are typically the result of imagination — and fantasy has the lock-down on sheer ferocity. Monsters make a ready conflict for the hero, and raise the stakes in ways that no mere human villain can. The question remains: Which beastie is the most deadly?

Go on. Tell me which ones I missed.

via AMC – Blogs – SciFi Scanner – Mary Robinette Kowal – The Ten Deadliest Monsters in Fantasy.