Pictorial art of monsters from the past or present, such as angels, demons, strange WTF creatures, drooling brutes, innocent-looking oddities, mythical hybrids, an image from a bestiary, etc. Perhaps your submission will inspire an illustrator or comic-book artist. Yes, you can submit drawings of your own imaginary monsters.

Please accredit the artist by their real name and link to source. Please take 5 minutes to use Google Image Search or TinEye.

No links to collections of wallpapers or a portfolio: Please link to one image, and post a link to the gallery in the comments.

All shortened URLs will be considered as spam and will be flagged as such.

Chosen as Subreddit of the Day for September 25, 2012

Reddit Administrator hueypriest says r/ImaginaryMonsters is "awesome" in a comment about mentioning it on reddit's blog

Header image: a crop of "Corak The Hunter" by Philip Herman

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