Oh Monstrous!

I hope to write something on monsters and the monstrous, as discussed here. In the meantime, do consult this (aborted?) work-in-progess Encyclopedia of the Marvelous, the Monstrous, and the Grotesque, it contains an eclectic number of entries, and definitions such as this:


Acephalous. 'Having no part of the body specially organized as a head' .