With the scariest day of the year upon us, we will be confronted with a host of monsters. Each has its own qualities - some scarier than others.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein was not a cold-blooded killer - and he was most certainly not a monster. But Dr Victor Frankenstein created a monster by cobbling one together from body parts robbed from graves.
The result, with its tell-tale neck bolts, is usually mistakenly given the name of its creator.
Larger than life and with a knee-less stagger, Frankenstein's monster was the creation of author Mary Shelley.
Shelley and Frankenstein's 'monster' first came to the silver screen in the 1931 Universal Pictures movie, Frankenstein, which depicted him as a ruthless - sending shivers down the spine. Fear Factor: Looks scarier than he really is. Has a maximum speed of about 6 kilometres an hour so not much of a threat: a gentle beast built in the wrong village at the wrong time.