# Hallucinatory monster
In NetHack, hallucination can cause you to perceive monsters as other beings, including those that otherwise do not exist in the game. These hallucinatory monsters are based on creatures from other roguelikes, fantasy worlds, folklores and popular culture.[1]
Some of the creatures used as hallucinatory monsters may appear as real monsters in SLASH'EM and other variants of NetHack.

Contents

1 List of hallucinatory monsters

1.1 Games

1.1.1 Quendor (Zork, etc.)
1.1.2 Moria
1.1.3 Rogue
1.1.4 Dungeons &amp; Dragons
1.1.5 NetHack

1.1.5.1 Typos of NetHack monsters

1.1.6 Angband
1.1.7 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
1.1.8 Other games

1.2 Literature

1.2.1 Greek mythology
1.2.2 J. R. R. Tolkien
1.2.3 Lewis Carroll
1.2.4 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1.2.5 Xanth
1.2.6 Comics
1.2.7 Other literature

1.3 Movies
1.4 Television

1.4.1 Anime
1.4.2 Star Trek
1.4.3 Other television

1.5 Music
1.6 Real creatures

1.6.1 Humans

1.7 Fictitious beasts
1.8 Computing

1.8.1 Computer bugs

1.9 Typography
1.10 Internet

1.10.1 Memes

1.11 Miscellaneous

1.11.1 Real-world objects

2 References

List of hallucinatory monsters
Games
Quendor (Zork, etc.)
grue
Christmas-tree monster
luck sucker
paskald
brogmoid
dornbeast
Moria
Ancient Multi-Hued Dragon
Evil Iggy
Rogue
rattlesnake
ice monster
phantom
quagga
aquator
griffin
emu
kestrel
xeroc
venus flytrap
Dungeons &amp; Dragons
basilisk[2]
beholder[2]
efreeti
marid
nightmare
rot grub
NetHack
apostrophe golem
voluptuous ampersand
Typos of NetHack monsters

acid blog
acute blob
aria elemental
aliasing priest
aligned parasite
aligned parquet
aligned proctor
baby balky dragon
baby blues dragon
baby caricature
baby crochet
baby grainy dragon
baby bong worm
baby long word
baby parable worm
barfed devil
beer wight
boor wight
brawny mold
rave spider
clue golem
bust vortex
Semigorgon
errata elemental
elastic eel
electrocardiogram eel

fir elemental
tire elemental
flamingo sphere
fallacy golem
flush golem
gloating eye
frizzed centaur
forest centerfold
frosted giant
fierceness sphere
geriatric snake
gnat ant
giant bath
grant beetle
grind bug
giant mango
glossy golem
gnome laureate
gnome dummy
gooier ooze
green slide
guardian nacho
hell hound pun
high purist
hairnet devil
ice trowel

killer beet
feather golem
lounge worm
martyr orc
mortar orc
mountain lymph
pager golem
pie fiend
prophylactic worm
mock role
sock mole
rogue piercer
seesawing sphere
simile mimic
moldier ant
stain vortex
scone giant
uberhulk
umbrella hulk
vampire mace
verbal jabberwock
water lemon
water melon
winged grizzly
yellow wight

Angband
yeek
quylthulg
Greater Hell Beast
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Sigmund
lernaean hydra
Ijyb
Gloorx Vloq
Blork the orc
Other games
battlemech
killer bunny
creeping coins
cacodemon
scrag
Lord British
kitten prospecting robot
weighted Companion Cube
tridude
enderman
zergling
meeple
Literature
Greek mythology
hydra[2]
siren
amazon
harpy
J. R. R. Tolkien
Ent
Morgoth
Lewis Carroll
white rabbit
snark
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
microscopic space fleet
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
Xanth
tangle tree
nickelpede[2]
wiggle
Comics
aardvark
teenage mutant ninja turtle
samurai rabbit
Other literature
pushmi-pullyu
questing beast
Luggage
vermicious knid
womble
Movies
Godzilla
King Kong
killer tomato
rodent of unusual size
Ewok
Terminator
Audrey II
Predator
killer bunny
were-rabbit
Television
Anime
Totoro
ohmu
youma
nyaasu
Invid
boomer
Star Trek
tribble
Klingon
Borg
Other television
smurf
Dalek
Barney the dinosaur
Vorlon
Crow T. Robot
manbearpig
fraggle
Music
witch doctor
one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater
particle man
Real creatures
maggot[2]
pterodactyl
tyrannosaurus rex
rhinovirus
praying mantis
beluga whale
chicken
coelacanth
star-nosed mole
lungfish
slow loris
sea cucumber
tapeworm
liger
velociraptor
corpulent porpoise
quokka
potoo
Humans
attorney
mother-in-law
clown
mime
peddler
haggler
Fictitious beasts
wolpertinger
elwetritsch
skvader
Nessie
tatzelwurm
dahu
dropbear
wild haggis
jackalope
flying pig
hippocampus
hippogriff
kelpie
catoblepas
phoenix
amphisbaena
Computing
buffer overflow
dangling pointer
walking disk drive
floating point
regex engine
netsplit
wiki
peer
COBOL
Computer bugs
bohrbug
mandelbug
schroedinbug
heisenbug
Typography
guillemet
solidus
obelus
dingbat
bold face
boustrophedon
ligature
rebus
Internet
gazebo
Bob the angry flower
Strong Bad
Magical Trevor
one-winged dewinged stab-bat
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Flying Spaghetti Monster
/b/tard
Vendor of Yizard
Memes
bonsai-kitten
tie-thulu
Domo-kun
looooooooooooong cat
nyan cat
ceiling cat
basement cat
monorail cat
Miscellaneous

Smokey the bear
jumbo shrimp
giant pigmy
gnu
killer penguin
giant cockroach
giant slug
nightmare[2]
bookworm
master lichen
shadow[2]
hologram
jester
sleazoid
robot
lion-dog

rat-ant
Y2K bug
angry mariachi
arch-pedant
bluebird of happiness
cardboard golem
duct tape golem
diagonally moving grid bug
evil overlord
newsgroup troll
ninja pirate zombie robot
octarine dragon
gonzo journalist
lag monster
loan shark
possessed waffle iron

poultrygeist
stuffed raccoon puppet
viking
wee green blobbie
wereplatypus
hag of bolding
blancmange
raging nerd
spelling bee
land octopus
frog prince
pigasus
conventioneer
large microbat
small megabat
tofurkey

Dudley
bouncing eye
floating nose
wandering eye
little green man
ghoti
earthquake beast
orcus cosmicus
unicorn pegasus kitten
wight supremacist
gray goo
magnetic monopole
first category perpetual motion device
existential angst
figment of your imagination
flash of insight

Real-world objects
chess pawn
chocolate pudding
ooblecks
terracotta warrior
hearse
roomba
miniature blimp
dust speck
References

↑ bogusmon.txt in NetHack 3.6.0, line 0

↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Appears as a real monster in SLASH'EM.

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