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Hey, wouldn't it be cool if [[Dracula]], the [[Wolf Man]], the [[Mummy]], [[Frankenstein's Monster]], [[Fish People|Gillman]], and all those other classic monsters hung out?

* [[Creature from the Black Lagoon]]

* [[Our Witches Are Different|A Witch]]

* [[Jekyll and Hyde|Dr. Jekyll]]

* [[Our Zombies Are Different|Zombie]]

* ''[[Kitty Norville]]'', likewise, features both friendly and unfriendly [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolves]] and [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]]. As the [[Meaningful Name|ironically named]] main character is a werewolf, you'd expect most of the bloodsuckers to be villains, but she's allied to more than she's made enemies. The werewolf packs and nearest vampire families usually keep a cooperative connection.

** The best example of a Monster Mash in this series is the latest book, ''Kitty's House of Horrors'', where the premise is a reality show starring all the B-list celebrities who are or claim to be supernatural: Kitty the werewolf talk radio host, a werewolf pro wrestler, a were-seal state legislator, a TV medium and stage magician who are both the real thing, a vampire beauty pageant winner, and a psychic supernatural debunker TV show star.

* ''[[Tales of MU]]'' initially appears to be based on this to most readers, though it is not exactly on a voluntary basis - the [[Wizarding School]], Magisterius University, has ''graciously'' established a separate dorm for the non-humans and part-humans, supposedly to make them feel less pressured to conform to human ways but in actuality at least in part to keep the freaks out of sight. The characters' foibles, both personal and racial, make up a significant part of the series.

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. The main character is a wizard and frequently [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|teams up with an incubus]], which in this setting is the [[Our Vampires Are Different|most humanlike kind of vampire]]. Other occasional assistants/sidekicks include werewolves, faeries and [[Knight in Shining Armor|Knights in Shining Armor]].

* Clive Barker's short novel Cabal, later filmed as ''[[Nightbreed]]''. The monsters live in Midian in Canada. In the book Clive Barker's Nightbreed Chronicles, Barker explains the origins of many of these monsters, indicating that they did not share a common origin. One monster had its origin as a mutant engineered by the Central Powers during World War I (reminiscent of the G-8 series, which often featured paranormal entities devised by Central Powers researchers) and another a person mutated by a meteor (similar to Doc Savage's foe Mo-Gwei, Vandal Savage, Meteor Man, and L?Île aux trente cercueils by Maurice LeBlanc).

* Neil Gaiman's ''[[The Graveyard Book]]'' not only features a boy raised by ghosts, but also an organisation called the Honour Guard consisting of a vampire, a werewolf, a mummy and some sort of djinn.

* The novel ''[[Family Bites]]'' by Lisa Williams is about a family of friendly neighbourhood werewolves whose new neighbours turn out to be [[Friendly Neighbourhood Vampires]].

* Kelley Armstrong wrote a novel with only werewolves. She then called the series Women of [[The Otherworld]] and included witches, demons, and other supernaturals to be able to not be stuck only writing about werewolves.

* With the possible exception of Godzilla, anything on the list above is likely to be found drinking in Strangefellows in one [[Nightside]] book or another.

 

* The BBC 3 show ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' has a vampire, a werewolf and a female ghost as flatmates.

* ''[[Big Bad Beetleborgs]]'' had a mummy, a vampire, a frankenstein-style monster, a group of pixies, a ghoul, a living statue, and a "phantasm" all sharing a haunted house. Surprisingly, while ''they'' were real, the [[Metal Heroes|heroes]] and villains of the show were ''not'', being, respectively, the product and side effect ([[Gone Horribly Wrong]]) of a spell the phantasm cast.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* During the Storm of Souls arc in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', the main characters are witness to a fight between an infernomancer and a werewolf. Donovan Deegan mentions that, in his day, they had a name for such fights: A Monster Mash.

* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' features a fox demon, a [[Living Shadow]], a ghost, and a Minotaur.

* ''[[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]]'' has thus far had a zombie [[Supporting Protagonist]], a werewolf, some vampires, a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-selkie]], and a ghost. And it's barely into its third chapter.

* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has a mismash of different monsters going to an [[All-Ghouls School]].

* ''[http://www.monsterful.com/ Monsterful]'' has a world full of monsters of all kinds, from classic undead ones (zombies, vampires, ghosts) to mythological ones (gorgons, Loch Ness monsters, mummies), uncommon ones like ragdolls, golems and homunculi, and even some hybrid monsters (Zombpyre). The first chapter focuses on the Addams High [[All-Ghouls School]].

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* The ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' episode "Revenge of the Monsters" featured a team-up between robotic vampire NOS-4-A2, cyborg werewolf the Wirewolf, and the Frankenstein's Monster-esque [[Psycho Prototype]] XL.

* [[Genndy Tartakovsky]], after leaving [[Cartoon Network]], is now directing a film called ''[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/03/26/genndy-tartakovsky-taking-over-the-hotel-transylvania/ Hotel Transylvania]'', about several [[Universal Horror]] monsters living in a hotel, specifically [[Dracula]] and his daugher, [[Frankenstein's Monster]] and his bride, [[The Wolf Man]] and his family, Quasimodo and a mummy.

* An animated special based on ''The Monster Mash'' had the Universal Monsters, as well as a group of antagonistic creatures composed of a slasher, an alien, and an [[Enfant Terrible]].

 

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