Horrifyingly Beautiful: 5 Monster Romance Manga and Manhwa To Read Right Now

For many of those who love monster romance, everything started with Beauty and the Beast, and its tale of a beastly being taking a human girl hostage in his grand manor. Despite everything, you could see he had layers, like an onion. Layers that you wanted to rip apart to see what was inside. And then, once he fell in love with the human girl and wanted to be more, he wanted to be able to give her what she deserved. Isn’t that beautiful? In this list, you’ll find five monster romance manga and manhwa that will make you fall in love with beings you never expected to. Most of the time, when you encounter a monster in a story, they are the bad guy. They tend to be shoved into a box of “not possible to be the hero,” but if you encounter a monster in a monster romance, the monsters are center stage. They are the protagonists of their own stories, and you get to peel back those onion layers that hide so much about them, like their goals, their dreams, and their history. They happen to be complex creatures that people have been misunderstanding for centuries, and the story becomes so much more. The monsters in the romance manga and manhwa below are beings with dreams. Most of them, if not...