"Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines," a maze at Halloween Horror Nights, highlights villains and heroines such as Saskia Van Helsing, the Bride of Frankenstein and Countess Marya Zaleska.

Sharai Bohannon is starting a living timeline of women monsters in film. The list uncovers quite a few lethal ladies in the genre.

Step into Hollywood’s Gavlak gallery and you’ll find the typical white box transformed into a most surreal chapel.

In these books, single female monsters find sisterhood and support in each other. But when it comes to gendered monsters in general, Goss sees two fundamental differences in how women are treated.