If light/children's verse is allowed:

The Wendigo,
The Wendigo!
I saw it just a friend ago!

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Don't forget to check your veranada tonight before bed.

Jack Prelutsky has a bunch of (obviously) relevant material in several of his collections, including The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, Monday's Troll, The Gargoyle on the Roof, The Baby Uggs Are Hatching, Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep, and The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep. Shel Silverstein has some monster poems, too. But this may not be the direction you intend to go, or even temporarily wobble into. A little Jack Prelutsky goes a loooooong way.

A little more digging turns up the Auden and Taylor translation of the Voluspa. The bits about the wolf Fenris may be of interest.

Hey Tim,

Ah! Didn't know you'd done Beowulf--we'd excerpted from Heaney. That's great! I'll pm you more....

Susan, We do have some passages from Ovid (Hecuba as werewolf and Circe as witch) but you're right--I should dig more since Ovid is so rich.

Julie--children's verse can be okay, as you say, in small doses. We're playing with the idea of including Dr. Seuss's "The Grinch," along with the troll and dwarf songs by Tolkien and "The Sleepy Giant" poems from the Charles E. Carryl novel. I do love Silverstein and should probably dig there. We ended up cutting the Nash we had, but I will say that the "Wendigo" poem is really funny and we might have to consider it--thanks!

Maryann, that's very interesting. I read through it and spent a bit of time finding other translations of the various eddas. They're very cool, but tend not to focus on one monster long enough to excerpt for an anthology, unfortunately.

Thanks all for your help!