Submit what your favourite horror monster or spooky myth is and why in 20 words or more here for Nightmare Night activity 2

This is actually quite a tricky one to answer because I have quite a few faves! But if I had to pick one... The Kelpie (Scottish) / Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh). They're both basically the same water spirit/monster, but the fact that they can shapeshift, specifically into a horse, are close to home and have the capability of being both creepy and beautiful really appeals to me!

Biohazard Journal Entry: Gibbering mouther If you can see the picture, then you can take a good guess as to why I love (and fear) the gibbering mouther. Being a horrific creature made by the conglomeration of flesh, teeth, tongues, and eyes, nothing less then a detailed picture can get the feeling of having to see, and fight this monstrosity. This isn't just some acidic slime oozing around, those mouths work, and all though they do nothing but "gibber", you will still be scared like nothing else. I've heard of another monster similar to this called a sheogorath, but I haven't see one, nor do I want to see one. It's bad enough having to deal with regular oozes. I don't want one that screams at me non-stop.

Well I'm generic as heck and I'd have to say my favorite monster is a vampire uwu They're just pretty badass and they sleep in the day time which I can relate to. Plus they usually are super strong. Tbh I'm bad at words so this is lame .3.

When it comes to fear and mystery, there are few things that compare to our well known cryptids. One that really spooks me is the Dover Demon, sighted many times in Dover, Massachusetts. What freaks me out about it are not only all the believable first hand encounters, but how they describe the beast and the precarious nature of its movements. It also looks like an alien apparently and that's spooky.

My favorite is vampires, but certainly not the Dracula or Twilight kinds, I'm talking Vampire: The Masquerade Vampires. While this flavor of vampire retains the dependency on blood and aversion to sunlight, which were great horror cornerstones back when humanity was more day-oriented and blood was considered more of a person's life force and less the stuff that feeds our cells, it builds further with different clans and bloodlines of having different powers and attributes. For instance, the Nosferatu are mostly ugly as sin and quite a few live in sewers and underground tunnels, but their clan powers mostly center around animalism, potence, and obfuscate, which means that they have varying degrees of power of animals (most notably rats for them), superhuman strength, and the ability to hide or create illusions. And that's just 1 major clan out of what I think are the 10 major clans, with, of course, subfactions here of there, but that's not important. Where this flavor of vampire shines for me is it is all about the age of the vampires in relation to their power and about how they keep The Masquerade to prevent the Kine (mortals) from being aware of their existence while the different vampires all basically screw with each other to gather more power while stripping the other clans of their power. The older a vampire, the more powerful it is, obviously, but it turns into a giant interesting mess of Methuselahs (the most oldest vampires) influencing younger vampires without them really knowing about it who in turn control or influence even younger vampires or Kine minions or supplies and it just branches out into a giant web of utter shenanigans where all your actions are made up and your individual goals don't matter because you might be being influenced by an older vampire to accomplish their goals without even knowing it. They had an interesting TCG that used 2 decks and a multitude of actions utilizing political actions and straight-up combat to bleed your opposing Methuselahs little by little to beat everyone else out a little after I was born and I've never got to actually play it... :c Also, Twilight-brand(tm) vampires make me butthurt.