Hallucinatory monster

Hallucinatory monsters do not exist in NetHack, but their names can appear when you are hallucinating and interacting with monsters. A few appear as real monsters in SLASH'EM. Many of the monster names come from other roguelikes, mythologies, fantasy worlds, and popular culture.

List of hallucinatory monsters

Quendor (Zork, etc.)

• grue
• Christmas-tree monster
• luck sucker
• paskald
• brogmoid
• dornbeast

Moria

• Ancient Multi-Hued Dragon
• Evil Iggy

Rogue

• emu
• kestrel
• xeroc
• venus flytrap

Greek legend

• hydra
• siren

Xanth

• tangle tree
• nickelpede
• wiggle

Lewis Carroll

• white rabbit
• snark

Star Trek

• tribble
• Klingon
• Borg

Monster movies

• Godzilla
• King Kong

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• microscopic space fleet
• Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

50's rock 'n' roll

• witch doctor
• one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater

Common household pests

• mother-in-law

Miscellaneous

jumbo shrimp giant pigmy gnu killer penguin giant cockroach giant slug maggot pterodactyl tyrannosaurus rex basilisk beholder nightmare efreeti marid rot grub bookworm master lichen shadow hologram jester

attorney sleazoid killer tomato amazon robot battlemech rhinovirus harpy lion-dog rat-ant Y2K bug creeping coins killer bunny rodent of unusual size Smokey the bear Luggage Ent pushmi-pullyu smurf Ewok

Totoro ohmu youma nyaasu earthquake beast Invid Terminator boomer Dalek teenage mutant ninja turtle samurai rabbit aardvark Audrey II Barney the dinosaur Morgoth Vorlon questing beast Predator