Ravenloft Monsters
Creatures of gothic horror from the mist-shrouded domains of dread: undead, cursed beasts, shapechangers and things that whisper in the dark. 270 monsters, grouped by the book they come from.
- Ravenloft Appendix III (91)
- MC10 Ravenloft Appendix I (43)
- TheLonesomeRoad (27)
- Ravenloft Appendix II: Children of the Night (19)
- The Shadow Rift (17)
- The Nightmare Lands (15)
- BookofSorrows (8)
- Ravenloft Campaign Setting, 1st Ed. ("Realm of Terror") (6)
- BookofSecrets (4)
- BookofSouls (4)
- Requiem: The Grim Harvest (4)
- Castles Forlorn (3)
- RA2 Ship of Horrors (3)
- BookofShadows (2)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1994 Annual, Volume 1 (2)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2 (2)
- Other sources (2)
- RR4 Islands of Terror (2)
- Servants of Darkness (2)
- TerrorsFromAbove (2)
- The Awakening (2)
- BookofSacrifices (1)
- MC11 Forgotten Realms Appendix II (1)
- MC5 Greyhawk Appendix (1)
- Monstrous Compendium, 1997 Annual, Volume 4 (1)
- Monstrous Manual (1)
- RM5 Dark of the Moon (1)
- RQ2 Thoughts of Darkness (1)
- Spellbound: Thay, Rasheman, & Aglarond (1)
- Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium, Volume Two (1)
- Vecna Reborn (1)
Ravenloft Appendix III
- Akikage The restless ghost of an eastern assassin who died mid-hunt, the akikage stalks its last target invisibly and can stop a heart dead with a single freezing punch.
- Animal Ghost The restless spirit of a beast that died in terror or in loyal service, an animal ghost ages its prey with a touch and kills beyond the reach of anything short of a wish.
- Animator Overview Spiteful spirits drawn to hate, anger and fear, animators possess a cherished object near a troubled soul and 'protect' that person with possessive, often murderous zeal.
- Aquatic Remnant The grieving ghost of a worked-to-death soul dumped in a river or pool, an eyeless face and pale hands whose icy touch numbs victims until they die of cold.
- Archer Skeleton Skeletal bowmen whose bone arrows, if they miss, sprout into fresh skeletons on the spot, turning every volley into a growing undead army.
- Bakhna Rakhna Pale, goblinlike jungle pests that ghost through walls to raid larders at night, bakhna rakhna are harmless if fed, but anyone who fights back invites poison and slow, silent murder.
- Baobhan Sith Cruel, cicada-winged sprites descended from a cursed pixie clan, who torment families for sport and spread magical hysterical laughter whenever someone suffers in front of them.
- Blood Rose [Plant] A patch of innocent white wildflowers until something steps into its center, the blood rose lashes out with thorny whips and drinks the blood that soaks into the soil.
- Boneless Deboned corpses animated by vile necromancy, these rubbery servants slither under doors, fold into tiny spaces and crush victims in an unbreakable, spell-stopping embrace.
- Boowray A tiny, invisible spirit with mint leaves for hair that poses as a guardian angel, whispering helpful counsel until it can coax a good soul step by step into evil.
- Bruja Hideous, hag-like crones cursed to foresee their own deaths, the bruja quietly turn their great strength and healing magic toward aiding travelers against the darkness.
- Cannibal Zombie Ravenous half-dead flesh-eaters that besiege farmhouses night after night, and whose poisonous bite turns survivors into more of their starving kind.
- Carrion Stalker A crab-shelled parasite nesting inside corpses, the carrion stalker lashes out with stinging tendrils, reels in the living, and showers them with burrowing larvae.
- Ceramic Figurine A cheerfully glazed little clay golem, often a lizard or toad, whose hollow belly can be loaded with acid, poison or oil to spray at intruders before it shatters.
- Common Animator An invisible, jealous spirit that seizes coaches, stoves and pianos, makes them move on their own, and grants each a cruel magical trick such as a gout of flame.
- Corpse Candle The restless spirit of a murder victim, glimmering in its corpse's eyes, that forces a living champion to relive the killing and hunt down the murderer.
- Crawling Ivy A wizard-bred vine that looks like ordinary ivy on an old wall until it seizes, strangles and slowly drinks dry whoever brushes against it.
- Crystal Figurine A gemlike spider or scorpion of living crystal, given as a deadly gift, which bounces light spells back at casters and slashes sleepers with its razor facets.
- Desert Zombie Dried, sand-swimming corpses that lurk just beneath the dunes, seize travelers by the ankles, and drag them down to suffocate, all at the will of an ancient mummy.
- Doppelganger [Ravenloft] A flawless, mind-reading mimic whose stolen shapes fool even touch, working in tight clans that climb a noble household one murdered servant at a time.
- Drow Lich Undead dark elf wizards, priestesses and even driders, drow liches pair a lich's terrors with towering magic resistance, spider swarms and a gift for deceiving the living.
- Drow Vampire A radiant, cruel dark elf granted undeath as a holy honor, who drains bodily fluids with a touch, rules spiders and driders, and dies at a single ray of sun.
- Elemental Lich A lich steeped in the dread realm's elements of grave, pyre, blood and mist, it strides into battle behind summoned elementals, shattering bones and corrupting souls with a touch.
- Fearweed [Plant] A common-looking milkweed that breathes out invisible terror, turning friends into imagined monsters so that its victims kill each other and feed its roots.
- Feathered Serpent A gorgeous, human-faced winged snake with a hypnotic sway and a sleep-venom bite, which surrounds itself with charmed slaves, clever traps and sometimes a worshipful cult.
- Fenhound A glowing spectral mastiff of the moonlit moors that hunts down anyone who commits evil in its wetlands, and curses whoever kills it to be hunted again each full moon.
- Figurine Overview Tiny, exquisitely crafted golems from a jungle realm of the dread lands that pass for magical trinkets, hate the living, and have murdered every scholar who ever made one.
- Fleas of Madness Ordinary-looking fleas from the misty dread realm whose bites can set victims laughing or dancing helplessly, and whose disease slowly drowns the mind in delusions.
- Flesh Golem [Ravenloft] A stitched-together corpse with a damaged, hateful spirit inside, this flesh golem strangles its victims, heals by the hour, and flees in terror from even a lit match.
- Furies Three winged sisters who hunt the repentant, the Furies drag would-be penitents back toward damnation and, failing that, torture them to death in public as a warning to others.
- Greater Animator The mightiest of the possessing spirits, a greater animator turns a whole mansion or sailing ship into a living death trap that slams, bleeds threats and raises its buried dead.
- Greater Snow Golem A marble-hard sentinel of packed snow that breathes killing frost, shatters the swords that strike it, and bursts into scalding steam when burned.
- Gremishka Wingless, cat-eyed kin of the gremlin that nest beneath big houses, steal anything loose, and swarm larger folk in a biting, pocket-picking heap when cornered.
- Head Hunter A long-legged spider with a human head for a body, the head hunter strings razor webs that sever limbs and heads, then rides the beheaded corpses into town as disguises.
- Hearth Fiend A malevolent spirit of elemental fire that hides in candles and hearths, the hearth fiend whispers friendly bargains to whoever tends its flame until they are feeding it their neighbors.
- Hebi-No-Onna Beautiful snake-armed sorceresses who rule secret cults from luxurious lairs, hebi-no-onna dominate minds, command every serpent within earshot, and poison their victims with living nightmares.
- Insectoid Skeleton The hollow, clicking husks of giant insects raised as undead servants, from swarming ants to blood-gulping ticks and charging stag beetles.
- Ivory Figurine A palm-sized elephant golem of carved, scrimshawed ivory that can swell to 11 feet tall, gore with enchanted tusks, and trumpet hard enough to deafen foes and shatter glass.
- Jack Frost Mischievous ice spirits that drift down as dazzling snowflakes, freeze victims in a killing cloud, and nip off noses and fingertips for the fun of it.
- Jolly Roger The grinning, dripping ghost-captain of a sunken pirate crew, whose chuckle forces victims to laugh helplessly and whose touch can make them laugh themselves to death.
- Kizoku A flawless, wealthy suitor from the eastern lands who seduces a married woman into murdering her husband, then devours her soul with a kiss.
- Lashweed A blood-drinking plant that hunts by drumbeat echoes, the lashweed blinds prey with a black venom spray, glides untouched through thick brush and flays victims with barbed whip tendrils.
- Living Tattoo A spirit coaxed out of the nightmare realm to dwell in inked skin, a living tattoo can peel away from its bearer as a loyal beast, weapon or shadow, but its death may kill them both.
- Magical Leech Ordinary-looking leeches that spark with violet energy, magical leeches lurk in wet grass and quietly siphon spells from casters' minds and power from enchanted gear.
- Midnight Cat A sleek black cat with blank, glowing eyes that curses anyone who offends it and, while its victims sleep, inhales their very spirit.
- Minor Animator The weakest possessing spirit can only ride small objects, so it picks knives, razors and ropes, and waits with sly patience to strike in ways that frame the innocent.
- Mist Ferryman A skeletal, fog-wrapped undead that stalks the borders of the misty dread realm, wailing for its kin and spreading a wasting sickness that turns victims into more of its kind.
- Mist Golem [Ravenloft] Born by accident when a golem maker taps the realm's mists, this 12-foot figure of living fog howls, turns victims into mist, and serves whoever holds its focus before destroying him.
- Moor Man Hairless, saucer-eyed savages of the dread realm's bleakest fens who paint themselves with mud-and-blood tattoos of power each night before hunting travelers in the dark.
- Obedient Ordinary townsfolk hypnotized into lifelong service, the Obedient watch every stranger in a genteel southern domain and quietly report, poison or ambush on their master's behalf.
- Obsidian Figurine A jagged little ape of fused volcanic glass that slashes in a frenzy, may carry poison or snapping spines, and sprays razor shards whenever someone strikes it.
- Oriental Vampire A faintly glowing eastern vampire with foot-long razor nails that walks through walls, fades from sight, becomes a tiger, and treats mortals as nothing more than cattle.
- Paka Cat-souled shapechangers who live hidden among humans, turning household cats into spies and assassins to pursue an ancient, nameless grudge against humankind.
- Phantom Hound A great dog so loyal it returns after death as a coal-black, green-eyed specter, guarding its master's land or grave with a terror-inducing howl and a strength-sapping bite.
- Porcelain Figurine The rarest and deadliest of the small figurine golems, a painted porcelain tiger that sees the invisible, grows to full size, and fires level-draining bolts from its eyes.
- Pseudo-Familiar A too-perfect animal companion that answers a wizard's summons in the misty dread realm, quietly siphoning life from everyone nearby while it slowly takes over its supposed master.
- Psionic Leech Rubbery black leeches with a bluish sheen and a faint red glow, psionic leeches hide in clothing and armor to drain psionicists dry, then blast anyone who tries to pry them loose.
- Psionic Spirit A ghost that wields the mind instead of magic, terrorizing victims with phantom fears and puppet bodies before shredding their sanity, and hunting psionicists above all.
- Radiant Spirit The anguished ghost of a holy champion who died with a vital quest unfinished, blazing so brightly that its gaze can blind forever until someone completes its task.
- Recluse A frail, half-mad seer who left her wandering clan to converse with the dead, the recluse cannot defend herself, yet whoever kills her is cursed and hounded by ghosts.
- Resplendent Cloaker A glittering, sorrowful cloaker that clings to a host's neck and heals every wound, at the price of a blazing glow that draws thieves, beasts, and bad luck.
- Rushlight The burning ghost of an evil soul cremated alive, an almost invisible ball of flame whose touch sets flesh smoldering past any water's power to quench.
- Scarab Beetle Flesh-eating beetles that carpet tomb walls and burst from bare ground in ravenous swarms, from disease-spreading giant scarabs to the solitary monster that buries victims alive.
- Sea Spawn Master A slime-slick, shark-toothed horror of the shallows that seeds coastal villages with brain-riding slugs, then feeds on the townsfolk its puppets deliver to the waves.
- Sea Spawn Minion A six-inch lamprey-mouthed slug that paralyzes its victim, burrows into the base of the skull and turns the host into a puppet that feeds its master the village.
- Shadow Asp A silent serpent of living darkness that guards desert tombs, its venom slowly turning grave robbers into shadows bound to the very crypt they came to plunder.
- Shadow Cloaker A cape-shaped scrap of living darkness that rides a host's shoulders and turns every casual touch into a theft of life, until the host itself is drained.
- Shadow Unicorn A dappled-gray, flame-horned mockery of the unicorn that rules dying forests in the misty dread realm, feeding on the terror of travelers and leaving withered trees behind.
- Shattered Brethren Beast-human hybrids who escaped the mind reavers' breeding pits and now haunt the cracks around their old masters' lair, stealing food and murdering any reaver caught alone.
- Skeletal Cat Mistreated pets that claw their way out of the grave for revenge, skeletal cats hunt in packs, cling to their victims, and spread disease with every bite.
- Skeletal Hound The bare, animated bones of dead dogs, raised by necromancers as tireless guards that still bark, still bite, and still remember how to hunt as a pack.
- Skin Thief Long-clawed, bear-faced wasteland scavengers that flay travelers and wear their skins as disguises to lure in still more victims.
- Spectral Hag The ghost of a hag slain mid-ritual, a spectral hag drains life with a chilling touch, raises her victims as spectres, and can curse captives into becoming living hags.
- Undead Cloaker The rotting husk of a resplendent cloaker, drained by the undead and reborn to grip a host's neck and spread level-draining death through every touch.
- Undead Familiar The rotting, vengeful remains of a familiar its own wizard killed, an unstoppable revenant that screams inside his head and returns again and again until he is dead.
- Virus I Two cursed plagues of the misty dread realm: one burns its host up from within until they burst into flame, the other slowly turns flesh and blood to crystal.
- Virus II Two cursed plagues of the misty dread realm: one slowly turns its living, conscious victim to marble, the other plants an unshakable terror in the mind.
- Virus III Two cursed plagues of the misty dread realm: one floods the mind with psionic power until the brain explodes, the other eats the victim's shadow and then the victim.
- Virus Overview Six invisible, magically engineered plagues unleashed by a spiteful dying wizard, these viruses spread by touch from corpses and carriers and kill in grotesque, unique ways.
- Vorlog A would-be vampire bride or groom left stranded halfway through the dark transformation when its maker was slain, the vorlog lives only to rebuild its lost bond with a stolen companion.
- Wax Golem [Ravenloft] A perfect wax double of a living person, this golem hunts down its original, drains away memory and skill blow by blow, then quietly takes over its victim's life.
- Werejackal [Lycanthrope] Cowardly, grinning priests of a jackal-headed death god, werejackals infect and enslave entire villages, make them build a temple, and torment their enemies to death at leisure.
- Werejaguar [Ravenloft] Silent, spotted jungle guardians who stalk intruders for days as cruel sport, these werejaguars fear fire, laugh at silver, and fall only to enchanted weapons or ebony wood.
- Wereleopard [Lycanthrope] Spotted pack hunters who hamstring fleeing prey and herd the survivors into a killing ground, wereleopards serve the cat-folk paka and devour their own cursed thralls each full moon.
- Wereray [Ravenloft] Sand-buried ray-folk that sting waders into paralysis, savor watching them drown, and gleefully spread their curse to fishermen and sailors.
- Will O'Dawn A kindly cousin of the will o'wisp that glimmers only at sunrise, guiding lost and frightened travelers to safety and feeding on their relief and joy.
- Will O'Deep A torch-flame sprite of the deepest caves, the will o'deep lures explorers into mazes and cave-ins, then feeds on their fear while they starve in the dark.
- Will O'Mist A ribbon of icy light that slips freely through the deadly border mists, the will o'mist lures travelers into the fog and drinks their terror and confusion.
- Will O'Sea The largest and most aggressive will o'wisp variant, the will o'sea mimics lighthouses and burning ships to wreck vessels, then hovers above the drowning to savor their panic.
- Wishing Imp A sweet-faced black statuette that grants a wish every day, the wishing imp twists each one into a fresh disaster, and the curse passes only to someone who takes it knowingly.
- Zombie Fog A creeping bank of evil mist that drinks the psychic burst of every death it causes, smothering victims in despair while its puppet corpses close in.
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- Assassin Imp A tiny black familiar of the misty dread realm, the assassin imp kills its master's enemies in fittingly ironic ways and loves to see its drugged victims buried alive.
- Bastellus A featureless shadow that slips into sleeping homes, twists dreams into nightmares and drinks life levels from the dreamer, night after night, until its chosen victim dies and rises as another.
- Bat [Ravenloft] Two bats unique to the misty dread realm: red-eyed sentinel bats that spy for undead masters with borrowed powers, and fear-radiating skeletal bats raised by necromancers.
- Bowlyn The vengeful ghost of a cruel sailor killed in a shipboard accident, the bowlyn returns to its old vessel to stage nightly mishaps that build toward sinking it.
- Bussengeist The weary ghost of someone whose own deeds caused a catastrophe, the bussengeist drifts from disaster to disaster, its aura of despair crippling the defenders it watches.
- Darkling An exile cast out by the wandering fortune-teller clans, gaunt and bitter, who can never be surprised, coats its blades in deadly poison and may return as undead if not laid to rest.
- Doom Guard An empty suit of armor brought to grim life on a cursed anvil, standing endless watch and cutting down anyone its master's orders say to kill.
- Doppelganger Plant A melon-like vine whose pods steal the souls of sleepers miles away, turning them into hollow, perfectly normal-seeming puppets that lure in more victims.
- Dreamwild Nomad [Human] Tall, painted hunters of the nightmare realm who shrug off illusions and believe that anything they cannot see has simply stopped existing.
- Dwarf Vampire A bearded, armored undead dwarf that hates what it has become, strides through solid rock to ambush the living, and drains Constitution with every bare-handed blow.
- Elemental [Ravenloft] Four ghastly elementals born of the misty dread realm: a dancing funeral flame, a blood-drinking horror, an evil-infusing fog, and a coffin-studded giant of graveyard soil.
- Elf Vampire A scarred, day-walking elven horror whose touch withers every plant, an archer with bone arrows that rots whole forests and steps from tree to tree at will.
- Ermordenung Beautiful, aristocratic assassins whose very skin is lethal poison, transformed by a dread domain's ruler into killers who can never touch another living soul without murdering it.
- Evil Treant Treants corrupted by the dark powers of the mist-bound lands into flesh-eating tormentors who stalk travelers through haunted forests and savor innocent prey alive.
- Ghoul Lord Nearly indistinguishable from a common ghoul until it strikes, the ghoul lord commands a telepathic army of ghasts and ghouls and spreads a rotting disease that only heal can stop.
- Giant Skeleton Twelve-foot skeletons with a magical fire burning in their ribs, wielding bone-bladed scythes and hurling fireballs plucked from their own chests.
- Gnome Vampire A mute, time-worn gnome horror of the deepest caves whose touch stiffens joints like crippling arthritis and whose ghastly grin makes victims laugh themselves bloody.
- Goblyn Humans twisted by dark magic into slavering, leering servants, goblyns leap for the throat and feast on their victim's face while their master watches through their eyes.
- Golem [Ravenloft] Two horrors of the misty dread realm: the hissing, lightning-wreathed mechanical golem born of a madman's dream, and the silent zombie golem, a sewn-together mass of rotting corpses.
- Golem III A skeleton that laughs its foes to death and a smiling toy whose bite leaves victims choking on their own giggles: two golems that turn childish and grim things lethal.
- Golem IV A grinding stone gargoyle that pounces from rooftops and turns its prey to stone, and a stained glass knight that steps out of a chapel window wreathed in prismatic light.
- Greater Mummy Mummified high priests bound to guard sacred tombs forever, greater mummies cast powerful priest spells, spread a rot that kills in days, and grow deadlier with each passing century.
- Greater Wolfwere A towering dire wolf, a taloned half-wolf brute, or a charming bard: the greater wolfwere regenerates almost every wound and calls whole packs to its howl.
- Grim Reaper A robed, scythe-bearing skeleton drawn from the negative plane to the bedside of the dying, the grim reaper devours departing souls and slays anyone who tries to stop it.
- Halfling Vampire A small, somber undead that drifts as fragrant pipe smoke, saps strength with every touch, and lures victims in with flawless home cooking before draining them.
- Human [Ravenloft] Two faces of a mind broken by the dread realm: the hollow-eyed lost ones who drift through villages in silence, and the smiling madmen who stalk their neighbors after dark.
- Impersonator A pool of oily water that wears the faces of the people it has drained, the impersonator walks into villages as a trusted friend and leaves a trail of bloodless corpses.
- Mist Horror The bound, envious spirit of a wicked soul, lurking in the fog of the misty dread realm and taking whatever shape its victims fear most once they stop to rest.
- Quevari Cheerful, flower-wearing villagers who seem utterly human, until the three nights of the full moon turn them into stealthy, cannibal killers.
- Quickwood An oak with a hidden human face that watches through possessed trees, snares passersby with creeping roots and drags them to its biting maw.
- Ravenkin Wise, spellcasting giant ravens trapped in a land of mist and dread, the ravenkin are among its few champions of good and know its dark secrets better than anyone.
- Reaver Scaled, needle-toothed raiders of a misty, cursed coast, reavers drag swimmers and fishers under, shred grapplers on their bladed scales, and terrorize villages they claim as their own.
- Red Widow A ravishing red-haired seductress who takes lovers into her arms and then becomes a crimson giant spider, the red widow feeds on a fresh victim nearly every week.
- Scarecrow [Ravenloft] A wronged farmer's spirit returned in a straw body, this scarecrow hunts the neighbors it blames and curses them to be devoured by swarming insects.
- Undead Treant A dying evil treant reborn by the dark powers as a leafless, blood-drinking corpse-tree that pins fallen victims with burrowing roots and drains them dry.
- Valpurgeist The hanged man: a broken-necked corpse that rises after a wrongful execution and strangles its accusers one by one, returning again and again until its innocence is proven.
- Vampire Lord's Skeletal Steed Bare-boned undead warhorses that lie as dusty heaps until called, then rise on hooves wreathed in phantom flame and breathe a paralyzing gas.
- Vampire Overview How the dread realm's most feared undead are born, how they bind their spawn with absolute command, and the rare, terrible bond a vampire forms with its chosen companion.
- Vampyre Beautiful, cat-eyed, fanged blood-drinkers that are not undead at all: living predators who hunt in packs, lure lovers home, and keep their victims alive for days.
- Wanderkin Vampire A withered, clawed wanderkin bound in undeath to a death knight's ruined domain, whose spirit-rending claws and maddening cackle serve the master it cannot escape.
- Werebat [Lycanthrope] Blood-drinking shapechangers that roost in woodland caves amid hundreds of bats, werebats see people simply as prey and strip nearby villages bare whenever their young come of age.
- Wereraven [Ravenloft] Rare good-hearted shapechangers who nest in living hollow trees, command flocks of ravens, and quietly aid the righteous while hiding from the realm's dark masters.
- Zombie Lord A living man cursed into rotting undeath by a failed raising in the misty dread realm, the zombie lord commands every zombie it sees and can strike the living dead with a word.
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- Black Panther A sleek, vain hunting cat woven from living shadow, the black panther melts into a pool of darkness, slides behind its victim and re-forms to strike again.
- Blood Skeleton Blood-steeped skeletons that pull themselves back together one round after being smashed, and can be put down for good only by magic.
- Crimbil Ash-pale, joyless gnome kin of haunted forests who stalk travelers, paralyze them with poisoned blades and haul them home for torture and a grisly feast.
- Devilwhip The vengeful ghost of a cruel slave master, the devilwhip is a floating black whip that hunts its former slaves by night and leaves wounds that refuse to close.
- Doomcat A mangy stray that worms its way into a family, then blackmails them with prophecies of disaster it can unleash itself, earthquakes and plagues included.
- Duende Bone-white goblin things that live inside the walls of houses and tap all night, the duende feed on the nightmares their knocking plants in every sleeper nearby.
- Fee-faw-fum A smudgy, glowing-eyed little imp that haunts empty houses and talks intruders into blind terror with grisly whispered prophecies of their doom.
- Giwoitis A tiny, shy green lizard that moves into kindly households and silently turns away vampires and other undead at every door, window and chimney.
- Glitterman A charming, impossibly rich stranger who conjures perfect fake fortunes from junk, then watches greed turn neighbors, rivals and families against each other.
- Karliki Cruel, sun-shunning dwarf-folk of the haunted mountains, karliki ambush lost travelers in ornate black armor, laughing as they cut human flesh, and turn to stone in daylight.
- Kashehotapolo Shy, fetal-looking forest goblins whose mournful song lulls travelers to sleep, kashehotapolo prick their sleepers with a musk-tipped thorn that slowly rots their souls toward chaotic evil.
- Moldling An intelligent, corrupted fungus that wears corpses like armor, coughing infectious spores at the living and turning them into energy-draining zombies under its control.
- Muma Padura A barefoot forest maiden whose hair blooms and fades with the seasons; she leads travelers astray with phantom cries, then claws them into living, fully aware trees.
- Nightcrawler [Ravenloft] Drowned children hollowed out and stuffed with leeches, crayfish and snakes, nightcrawlers giggle through the bayou hunting grown-ups to play with, and they keep stitching themselves back together.
- Nocnitsa A hunched crone of living shadow who slides down chimneys at night, lulls households to sleep with her gaze, and drinks the blood of the youngest night after night.
- Ouija Table An ordinary-looking table soaked in years of desperate seances that has quietly woken, and now twists every reading and curses those who consult it.
- Poludnica A silent, smiling maiden in white who walks the grain fields at noon with a bloodstained sickle, beheading anyone foolish enough to work alone in the midday heat.
- Rat King [Lycanthrope] A bloated, bear-sized wererat lord blessed by a rat god, the rat king squats in the deepest sewers, breathes plague and steers whole wererat packs toward conquest of the city above.
- Uncle Skeleton A dapper, top-hatted spirit of bone that haunts graveyards and frightens trespassers for fun, the uncle skeleton is good-natured, sadistic and far more powerful than it lets on.
- Venus Weed A blood-drinking rose bush whose single giant bloom opens to reveal a lovely, charming woman, a living lure that draws victims onto thorny tendrils that drain them dry.
- Weeping Willow The sobbing ghost of a pregnant woman bound to a bayou willow, she lures travelers close with her grief, steals their memories in an embrace, and turns murderous if her tree is harmed.
- Werealligator [Lycanthrope] A drowsy swamp predator most of the year, the weregator periodically creeps into a nearby village to kidnap, torture and devour its gentlest folk, then slides back into the marsh unsuspected.
- Werebaboon [Lycanthrope] Brilliant, brutal shapechangers who secretly run tropical cities as merchants, warlords and kings, werebaboon troops scream their enemies apart and settle their own disputes in fights to the death.
- Werecheetah [Lycanthrope] Gorgeous, gold-draped megalomaniacs who rule private cults as living cat gods, werecheetahs flee real danger but can explode into a three-round blur of claws when cornered.
- Weremustela [Ravenloft] Ermine, mink, polecat and weasel shapechangers whose comical looks hide a culture of treachery, lightning-fast bites, and jaws that clamp on and shake victims senseless.
- Werepossum [Ravenloft] Cowardly, spiteful drifters who play dead to escape, then stalk anyone who drove them off with cruel pranks that easily turn deadly.
- Wereraccoon [Ravenloft] Filthy backwoods clans of raccoon-folk who prize their muskets, torture lost travelers for sport, and sometimes carry a maddening magical rabies.
Ravenloft Appendix II: Children of the Night
- Bardic Lich A cheerful half-elven bard who pried into a lich-king's secrets and was blasted into accidental undeath, he now survives only by devouring the magic of spellcasters.
- Bone-Caller [Human] A crippled old swamp hermit who calls zombies to his side and works any curse for a price, though the debt he names afterward can cost a client his life and soul.
- Corisande Malveaux [Unique Cursed Human] A vain, deathless thief cursed by wandering fortune-tellers to wear stolen heads, she swaps faces with her moods and gains the skills of every woman she decapitates.
- Eastern Vampire [Yamikaze] A cursed samurai vampire who wanders the misty dread realm dueling its greatest warriors, longing for a foe skilled enough to grant him an honorable death.
- Ezren Vulk [Ghast] Once the charming chief inquisitor of a fanatic cult, Ezren Vulk is now a marrow-sucking ghast prowling the borderlands with a ghoul pack, cursed by his own secret cannibal feasts.
- Grisk [Unique Meazel] A cunning meazel who strangles lone wanderers in the sewers beneath a lich-king's capital, leading pursuers into slime pits he alone knows how to avoid.
- Half-Golem A gifted young healer whose acid-ruined left side was rebuilt from corpse parts, Aurel Vantreaux is now half man, half flesh golem, and wholly an outcast.
- Isolde Varrach [Ermordenung] The first and deadliest of the ermordenung, a ravishing poisoner who murdered her queen's mother with a kiss and now leads her friend's corps of toxic assassins.
- Kael Morandu [Mechanical Golem] A wilderness ranger whose soul was torn out and sealed inside a mute, razor-fingered metal body by a mad wizard, now haunting the forests to mercy-kill his tormentor's other victims.
- Kesrin [Unique Weretiger] A hardened wanderer cursed by a lost love, this weretiger now leads a secret society of shapechangers against a rakshasa tyrant in a sweltering jungle realm.
- Liesel Varnhold [Spectre] A noblewoman buried alive by an avalanche who returned as the Ice Queen, a winter spectre who freezes people into crystal statues to ease the endless cold aching in her bones.
- Living Brain A spoiled noble's brain kept alive in a jar by a mad doctor, grown into a telepathic mastermind that commands crews, assassins and a hidden laboratory from a waterfront warehouse.
- Medusa [Ravenloft] A lonely, maddened medusa trapped in an illusion-laced labyrinth at the heart of a volcanic island, who murders every castaway but the one she chooses as a mate.
- Mind Reaver Vampire [Vesk'tharu] The cleverest and last-made of the undead mind reavers, a feral, nearly unkillable brain-eater that leads savage packs along the borders of the realm it was born in.
- Nebkhaset [Greater Mummy] A treacherous priest entombed alive by his pharaoh and awakened by a fallen priestess, Nebkhaset is a greater mummy who trades spells for an army of desert zombies and plots his old master's overthrow.
- Sarhuk the Thrax A water-draining thrax from the desert world, carried into the misty dread realm along with a lost city-state, who now hunts its roads in secret while plotting his escape.
- The Twelfth Bell Killer [Unique Madman] On foggy nights a cloaked figure stalks a pretty river city as the clock strikes twelve, and no one suspects the killer is the mute, despised street thief they curse by day.
- Vampyre [Casimir Vohl] A vampyre warlord from a world where his kind enslaved humanity, stranded in a walled city of the dread realm and quietly breeding an army to make humans cattle again.
- Vesskarra [Unique Night Hag] A night hag dragged into the misty dread realm by a lich-king, Vesskarra poses as a lonely old widow while feeding victims to a machine she believes can tear her way out.
The Shadow Rift
- Alven [Shadow Fey] Tiny orange-haired shadow fey gardeners with butterfly wings, alven dazzle intruders with a dancing flight that can leave them spellbound, deaf and blind.
- Avanc A twenty-foot, six-limbed crocodilian cursed out of human shape, the avanc lurks motionless in lakeside reeds, spinning whirlpools to tip boats and drag fishers into the dark.
- Brag [Shadow Fey] Pale, black-eyed shadow fey builders who become ponies at will, brag can put mortals to sleep with a glance and convince those they strike that they are horses.
- Changeling [Kin] Mortals whose shadows were sliced away by the shadow fey and remade as tireless master artisans, leaving hollow, sleepwalking husks behind in the human world.
- Crimson Bones Blood-soaked skeletons that rise from victims flayed alive by the shadow fey, hunting in mindless packs and splashing a poisoned gore that slowly kills.
- Dearg-Due [Shadow Host] Eyeless undead axemen in the vanguard of a fey prince's army of the dead, dearg-due spray burning mist from every wound an attacker gives them.
- Fir [Shadow Fey] Needle-fingered shadow fey tinkerers who become hedgehogs, fir guard their escape with clockwork gadgets and can lecture a listener into helpless confusion.
- Gallowsoak [Evil Treant] A once-revered oak brewed into a leafless, flesh-hungry horror by a hag coven, now the druid-powered lord of a poisoned forest who sends wolves after anyone carrying fire.
- Gossamer [Shadow Host] A shimmering, stretched-out ghost that bursts from the earth to pass through its victims, stealing their vigor to knit its own wounds.
- Grim A sleepless spectral guardian bound to one forgotten place, the grim takes the shape of a black hound, cat or owl and howls doom at any evil that intrudes.
- Muryan [Shadow Fey] The berserk warrior breed of the shadow fey, muryan fight with eerie grace, forcing foes to dance helplessly, go blind, slow down and lose their hearing.
- Portune [Shadow Fey] Tiny moth-winged fey healers who live as turtles and asps, portune leave bites that no clerical magic can close and cause anyone who strikes at them to fumble.
- Powrie [Shadow Fey] Murderous wasp-winged fey assassins in blood-dyed caps, powrie serve as the Prince of Shadows' spies, blinding with their bites and backstabbing with poisoned blades.
- Shadow Fey Overview Often mistaken for dark elves, the shadow fey are long-lived children of the Plane of Shadow who watch, rob and sometimes steal away mortals from a hidden rift in a misty realm of dread.
- Shee [Shadow Fey] The fairest and most artistic of the shadow fey, the shee charm with a kiss, curse with every arrow, and make attackers fumble before their blows ever land.
- Sith [Shadow Fey] Gaunt, death-obsessed masters of the Unseelie Court, sith fight with three blinding strikes a round, project visions of death, and become living shadows at will.
- Teg [Shadow Fey] Fox-faced, feral shadow fey who hunt for the joy of it, teg burrow up beneath their prey and drag it underground for the whole pack to savage.
The Nightmare Lands
- Arcane Head Thirteen floating severed heads with blank white eyes and filed teeth, these magical spies stun dream-travelers and spin open portals for the witch who made them.
- Dream Spawn Overview Featureless shapeshifters of the nightmare realm, half solid and half dream, that lull waking travelers with lullaby voices and steal their minds to borrow the shapes of their memories.
- Dreamweaver Palm-sized spiders that spin the scenery of dreams and nightmares, harmless unless provoked, though their bite drops a victim into a long, vivid sleep.
- Dreamwild Shaman [Human] Outcast holy folk of the dreamwild nomads who embrace the madness of the nightmare realm, banishing dream spawn and slipping into the sleep of others.
- Ennui [Greater Dream Spawn] Four-armed, bat-winged wardens of the court of nightmares that guard captive dreamers, swoop down with six raking claws and sate their savagery on fear.
- Hypnos Sleep given form, this monocled gentleman lies forever in a glass coffin in the dream city, whispering lullabies that topple heroes and commands that bend their waking lives.
- Lost Souls The corpses or spirits of travelers who die in the nightmare realm rise and fuse into groaning knots of the dead, growing deadlier with every body they absorb.
- Morph [Lesser Dream Spawn] Gangly, faceless dream spawn that play the bit parts in other people's dreams, from cowardly gray morphs filling in crowds to shadow morphs wearing a sleeper's worst fears.
- Mother Marrow A tiny, sun-withered witch of the court of nightmares who infiltrates parties of dreamers, sows fear with lies and illusions, and rips with claws or instant spells when the dread is ripe.
- Scalpel Nurse [Night Terror] A murdered nurse rebuilt from a grieving doctor's nightmares, this night terror haunts his clinic with blade-tipped fingers and can only be truly destroyed beneath the light of one rare flower.
- The Court of Nightmares A circle of at least six dream-devouring lords who spin a web through the world of sleep, snaring the darkest dreams of mortals everywhere and hauling the most promising dreamers into their mad realm.
- The Dream Tormentor The hooded, imagination-starved lord of the nightmare realm feeds on every frightened dreamer, hurls cold green dream fire, and forges living nightmares that slip out into the waking world.
- The Everchanger A red-skinned, half-vapor imp of the court of nightmares who reshapes himself, his servants and helpless dreamers into whatever will cause the most bewildering chaos.
- The Ghost Dancer A mute, bloodstained ballerina spirit of the court of nightmares, the Ghost Dancer drifts through guilty dreams and dances her audiences into paralysis and a slow death.
- The Painted Serpent A small, smiling winged snake of the court of nightmares that whispers suspicion into dreamers' minds, turning companions against each other while it feeds on their paranoia.
BookofSorrows
- Glass Nymph Invisible water fey of shadowed lakes, glass nymphs are so vain they crave praise for a beauty that can blind or kill, and they slowly absorb the mortals they adopt.
- Huldrow Shadow fey who remade themselves in the image of dark elves and a spider goddess's cult, now hunted renegades who ambush travelers and kill in her name.
- Lunatic [Human] Ragged hermits whose grip on reality has snapped, lunatics act without sense from moment to moment, freeze foes in sheer bewilderment, and shrug off mind magic.
- Pisacha Vampire A motionless corpse in its coffin that drinks the breath of sleepers up to five miles away, killing them slowly with what looks like a wasting sickness.
- Rotting Man Living humans eaten away by a magical plague of decay, these agonized outcasts look like zombies, beg for death, and leave behind slime that spreads their curse.
- Topiary Golem Clipped from living hedges into the shape of hounds, lions or dragons, topiary golems prowl elegant gardens and fall on trespassers exactly like the beasts they were sculpted to resemble.
- Undead Virus A slow magical plague that rots its host's flesh and then mind, leaving a shambling, undying Rotting Man that finally collapses into infectious slime.
- Vilay Pale shadow-fey dryads who can become nightingales and love their chosen paramours to death, binding the willing dead into crystal skulls as ghostly companions.
Ravenloft Campaign Setting, 1st Ed. ("Realm of Terror")
- Geist A harmless-looking ghost that exists only inside the minds of those it chooses, the geist cannot touch anyone, but its words, true or false, can steer the living toward help or ruin.
- Loup-garou [Lycanthrope] Stronger, tougher kin of the ordinary werewolf, loup-garous laugh off most magic weapons, travel as innocent humans between kills, and enslave everyone their bite infects.
- Nosferatu [Ravenloft] A blood-dependent vampire that slowly drinks Constitution from charmed prey, binds every victim it bites to its will for life, and withers if it goes hungry.
- Odem An invisible evil spirit that slips into a living person through the mouth or ear and rides them like a puppet, sowing hatred while its host watches helplessly.
- Vampire Lord's Skeleton Swift, jerking skeletons raised by a vampire lord as guards, shrugging off arrows and cold while they flail with whatever weapon they find.
- Vampire Lord's Zombie Frail-looking, talon-fingered corpses raised by a vampire lord whose hacked-off arms and heads keep crawling after the living, all sharing one pool of unholy life.
BookofSecrets
- Bleeding Willow A willow corrupted by an act of great evil, its sap runs like human blood, its fronds strangle, and any violence nearby unleashes a wave of murderous psychic rage.
- Echo The glowing ghost of an elf who died young, endlessly singing of the life it never lived, a dirge that drains listeners into a deadly, wasting coma.
- Fanggen A withered shadow-fey hag who poses as a kindly tree spirit, drains the life from those she lures close, and imprisons their screaming faces in the bark of her black tree.
- Sadhuin Vicious, four-horned goat-fey of the hidden shadow realm who drug victims with sleep-poison darts from their flutes, then feast, kill, or enslave them.
BookofSouls
- Bayou Zombie Not undead at all, but living criminals drugged, buried and dug up by a bayou spirit-priest, left gaunt, mute and obedient as punishment for the worst betrayals.
- Doom Locust Swarms of child-faced locusts with stained-glass wings that weep and chant 'doom' over places marked for catastrophe, stripping flesh, metal and stone alike.
- Mask Doppelganger A slimy, rubbery predator that wears flayed human skins like costumes, betrayed only by its stilted voice, a paralyzing bite and its habit of melting its disguise away.
- War Wraith Blood-smeared spectral skeletons that stalk fresh battlefields, war wraiths hack at the wounded and whisper unspeakable secrets that steal the will to live.
Requiem: The Grim Harvest
- Bog Mummy A marsh-preserved corpse risen for revenge, the bog mummy stalks through mud with leathery hands like hooks, spreading a stiffening rot, slipping through swamp soil, and laughing off fire.
- Dream Stalker A tiny glowing orb that lures grieving people into the mists in the shape of a lost pet, then hovers over their sleeping faces and feeds on their dreams until they fall into a coma.
- Maggot Golem A shifting man-shaped mass of countless maggots, wreathed in flies, that swallows blades like water, hugs victims to smother them, and hunts living flesh to feed its swarm.
- Siren [Ravenloft] Bloated, drowned-corpse mermaids hidden behind lovely illusions, whose song draws ships onto their reeking rocks and whose bone-sharpened fingers fester every wound.
Castles Forlorn
- Death's Head Tree A willow-like tree that springs from spilled blood and bears a crop of moaning human heads, which bite, spit burrowing seeds and float off to plant themselves in the living.
- Murkmaw [Unique Undead Serpent] A colossal undead lake serpent with rotting, bone-split hide, Murkmaw drags anyone who nears her shore into the black depths and drowns them among the hoard of earlier victims.
- Zombie Wolf Rotting wolves raised not by any necromancer but by the cursed land itself, hunting in small silent packs that can swell into a horde at their dark lord's call.
RA2 Ship of Horrors
- Giant Starfish A ship-hunting sea star with ten or twelve sucker-lined rays that latches onto a hull from below and pries it open like a shellfish to reach the crew inside.
- Lebendtod Undead who go on living ordinary lives, lebendtod run farms, shops and whole villages behind a mask of life while secretly answering to the necromancer who made them.
- Lesser Snow Golem A lighter, weaker cousin of the greater golems, sculpted from snow turned to stone, that breathes frost and channels lightning into anyone it grips.
BookofShadows
- Garbage Golem A faceless heap of rotting refuse that hides among the trash, strikes with a disease of fatal cramps, and serves as eyes and fists for a plague-city's lord.
- Mist Sylph A sylph dragged into the misty dread realm and twisted by its dark powers, now a bitter, fog-haired spellcaster that whispers nightmares into the ears of sleepers.
Monstrous Compendium, 1994 Annual, Volume 1
- Carrionette A painted puppet that pins victims with enchanted silver needles, the carrionette has one goal: to swap its wooden body for a living one.
- Werebadger [Lycanthrope] Short-lived, short-tempered dwarves who become clattering, claw-handed giant badgers, werebadgers can tip into a berserk frenzy at any moment and fight until nothing stands before them.
Monstrous Compendium, 1995 Annual, Volume 2
- Crypt Cat Mummified temple cats sealed in painted clay, crypt cats wake when their coffins open and leave festering wounds that refuse to heal until magic cures them.
- Wandering Seer [Human] Colorful caravan folk of fortune, music and swindle, the wandering seers wield a cursing evil eye and guard ancient secrets against an enemy that has hunted them for ages.
Other sources
- Elemental Overview [Ravenloft] In the misty dread realm, any elemental conjuring can twist into something macabre: a vengeful, homeless creature formed from the mists themselves that will hunt its summoner anywhere.
- Golem Overview [Ravenloft] Golems of the misty dread realm draw life from its dark powers rather than elemental spirits, and every one of them secretly longs to kill the master who made it.
RR4 Islands of Terror
- Marikith Black-skinned hive hunters of a city's sewers that stalk lone victims through the dark, feed on their mounting terror, and drag them below to their bloated queen.
- Wereshark [Ravenloft] The terror of every fishing village, this great white shapechanger may be human or sahuagin, and swallows its victims whole from below.
Servants of Darkness
- Goblin Vampire A hulking, saber-fanged goblin horror with burning orange eyes that grows stronger on every scrap of terror it inspires and hunts its own former kin by daylight.
- Umbra Gaunt, violet-skinned shadow elves who serve their banshee mistress beyond death, umbra strike at their enemies' shadows and freeze victims with a burning stare.
TerrorsFromAbove
- Azoul A wrinkled, armless, bat-winged horror that dissolves its victims to steal their shapes, the azoul poses as a hero, gathers loyal friends, then leads them all to ruin.
- Shadow Griffon Silent, night-black griffons of the misty dread realm that hunt in mated pairs, prefer human flesh, spread rot with their claws, and can melt briefly into living shadow.
The Awakening
- Plains Cat A black, bob-tailed grassland hunter whose roar sounds exactly like a human scream, the plains cat stalks horse herds and careless night travelers alike.
- Smoke Elemental A swirling, sentient cloud of hot soot and ash, usually conjured from temple incense, that wraps around its victims' heads and can split apart to lodge inside their lungs.
BookofSacrifices
- Upir Lichy A gaunt, wild-haired vampire of endless winter that drinks body heat instead of blood, stalking the frozen north in human, wolf or mist form.
MC11 Forgotten Realms Appendix II
- Lhiannan Shee An invisible, achingly beautiful undead spirit that stalks bards, seduces them with a touch and drains their life one nightly kiss at a time, while their music grows terribly powerful.
MC5 Greyhawk Appendix
- Sea Zombie Bloated, eyeless corpses of drowned sailors that swim with terrifying speed, wreck ships for sport, and follow the fog ashore to hunt the living.
Monstrous Compendium, 1997 Annual, Volume 4
- Mud Zombie Skeletons clothed in slimy mud that lie dormant in wet battlefields until intruders pass, then rise to rake festering wounds and smother victims against their chests.
Monstrous Manual
- Living Wall What looks like an ordinary stretch of masonry is really a moaning mass of fused corpses that strikes back with every victim it has absorbed, and keeps adding to itself.
RM5 Dark of the Moon
- Arayashka Snow wraiths born from travelers who froze with unfinished business, arayashka emerge from blizzards to drain warmth, Strength and even campfires.
RQ2 Thoughts of Darkness
- Mind Reaver Vampire Botched experiments meant to make a mind reaver undead, these insane tentacled horrors crawled out of a refuse pit and now roam free, mind-blasting and draining all life they find.
Spellbound: Thay, Rasheman, & Aglarond
- Cerebral Vampire Masked asylum orderlies who confuse their victims with a touch, then sink their fangs into the skull to drink the fluid of the mind itself.
Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium, Volume Two
- Resident The invisible ghost of someone too afraid to accept true love, haunting the place that love was lost and fiercely guarding anyone who resembles the one it let slip away.
Vecna Reborn
- Malvoren [Unique Abomination] Once a gifted young sorcerer sealed in a tomb by a jealous father, Malvoren botched a spell and became the Thing in the Shaft, a mouthless, tendriled horror that lives only to crush.