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

Games

Quendor (Zork, etc.)

• grue
• Christmas-tree monster
• luck sucker
• paskald
• brogmoid
• dornbeast
• jester
• rat-ant

Moria

• Ancient Multi-Hued Dragon
• Evil Iggy

Rogue

• emu
• kestrel
• xeroc
• venus flytrap

Dungeons & Dragons

• basilisk
• beholder
• efreeti
• marid
• nightmare
• Rot grub

Other games

• battlemech
• killer bunny
• creeping coins

Literature

Greek mythology

• hydra
• 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
• wiggle

Comics

• aardvark
• teenage mutant ninja turtle
• samurai rabbit

Other Literature

• pushmi-pullyu
• questing beast
• Luggage

Monster movies

• Godzilla
• King Kong
• killer tomato
• rodent of unusual size
• Ewok
• Terminator
• Audrey II
• Predator

Television

Anime

• Totoro
• ohmu
• youma
• nyaasu
• Invid
• boomer

Star Trek

• tribble
• Klingon
• Borg

Other television

• smurf
• Dalek
• Barney the dinosaur
• Vorlon

50's rock 'n' roll

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

Real creatures

• maggot
• pterodactyl
• tyrannosaurus rex
• rhinovirus
• attorney
• mother-in-law

Miscellaneous

jumbo shrimp giant pigmy gnu killer penguin giant cockroach giant slug

bookworm master lichen shadow hologram sleazoid robot

lion-dog Y2K bug Smokey the bear earthquake beast

Found only in the NAO version

bluebird of happiness stuffed raccoon newsgroup troll

hag of bolding Strong Bad

poultrygeist possessed waffle iron

References

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