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Once, long ago in Hrothgar’s kingdom, a monster named Grendel roamed the countryside at night. Rising from his marshy home, Grendel would stalk to the hall of the king, where he would seize fifteen of Hrothgar’s sleeping warriors and devour them. Departing, he would gather fifteen more into his huge arms and carry them back to his watery lair. For twelve years this slaughter continues.

Monster literature is a genre that generally focuses on good and evil and in which a monster represents evil. The story is meant to inspire feelings of horror and fear. The word monster comes from the Latin word monstrum, meaning “abnormal or supernatural in appearance.”