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The houses of London in The Speckled Band, illuminates a dark and eerie environment, , in which the characters are placed to illicit a flight or fight response from the reader. In the story, Helen Stoner approaches Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson requesting assistance for protection of her life. The murder of her sister in the house, and the uncertainty of her own life in her own room, captures the unsurity on the idea that the unknown, especially in a setting of what is supposed to symbolize a place of comfort, can serve as a negative aspect of human nature.

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In "The Imp of the Perverse" Poe does a beautiful job representing the narrator as someone who is unreliably human. The first half of the story is about defending the actions that the narrator committed in the second half. The Imp caught up to the narrator and caused them to reveal themselves as the murderer. Psychoanalytically, the first half reflects the persona/superego and the second half reflects the personal unconscious/id.

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Dr. Roylott - The Speckled Band - Sir Conan Doyle

Dr. Roylott is the physically abusive step-father that is consistently trying to get in the way of the Sherlock and Watson in the search to discover what happened to Ms.Stoner's wife. While he does not fit the mold of a "monster" in its truest sense for example green skin and covered in warts and outlandishly tall, Dr.Roylott still treats the step-daughters with disrespect and aggression. His main intent, while not explicitly implied, is to make sure the girls never get married and possibly don't stay living in order to get all the money from his late wife, the girls mother. After all, it is his freakish obsession with expensive pets that gets the first daughter killed.

Orangutan - Murder in Rue Morgue - Edgar Allen Poe

The Orangutan was the true murderer in Poes, mysterious and truthfully tangled story. In the physical copy of the story, there is a massive ape creature crouched next to the dead body of the woman that it just murdered. It's huge in size and has the primal instincts that humans think separates them from their earlier counterparts. The ape then has the mental acuity to attempt to hide the body, confuse the evidence and disregard of her in such a way that takes so much strength.

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Mackenzie Campbell
Sami Sawan
Fahad Aziz
Bodie Cole
Ellie Webb

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Monster: "The Call of Cthulhu" - Cthulhu

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Monster: "The Call of Cthulhu" - Cthulhu

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Another Gothic monster, this time it is an actual monster and not a person or animal.

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Goodman Brown - Young Goodman Brown
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

While Goodman Brown is the protagonist of the story, his ending is not a good one. The complete betrayal felt by his community and his unreliability in deciding which events were true or not make him an excellent example of an unstable character. His decaying mental fortitude is highlighted by the conscious decision to never treat his community the same, even though he cannot determine what is truly real.
The normality of the other characters presents a psychological battle for the main character, even though his final choice is to die distrusting anyone else after years of isolating himself from the false community.

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Monster: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” - The Orangutan 

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Monster: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” - The Orangutan 

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Poe might have included this to strike fear into the readers imagination and to further the detail of the gruesome murder committed in the Murder in Rue Morgue. This creature that stands tall above the battered woman is remarkably dark in color and can represent a shadow like creature in a black and white drawing like this. Poe used the image to further accentuate the mood of fear and disturbance in the story.

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Bleak Setting: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” - Paris, Summer of 1840.

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Bleak Setting: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” - Paris, Summer of 1840.

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This forest fits the description of the forest in Young Goodman Brown where the hellish visions or events occurred. Goodman Brown was changed after he came back out of the forest.

This story and this visual motif represent human nature in a negative light. The activities at night in the forest, real or not, represent a shadow to the rigid, moralistic Puritan lifestyle of the day. The supplementation of the orderly and proper with the disorderly and immoral is not inherently bad. The thing that makes this a negative representation of human nature is the fact that once Goodman Brown returns from the forest he cannot tell whether people are good or bad, or what they may be hiding.