Erishkegal & any Goddess of the underworld ever, including Hel The Morrigan Scylla and Charybdis The Gorgon The Eumenidies (Actually, from a certain point of view, Any Goddess Ever, especially presupposing that 'monstrous' =/= evil or bad)
More fantasy &etc: Achren in Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books Mombi, the Patchwork Girl, and sundry others in the Oz books Ariane Emory (both of them, but particularly II) in C.J.Cherryh's Cyteen books
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Erishkegal & any Goddess of the underworld ever, including Hel
The Morrigan
Scylla and Charybdis
The Gorgon
The Eumenidies
(Actually, from a certain point of view, Any Goddess Ever, especially presupposing that 'monstrous' =/= evil or bad)
More fantasy &etc:
Achren in Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books
Mombi, the Patchwork Girl, and sundry others in the Oz books
Ariane Emory (both of them, but particularly II) in C.J.Cherryh's Cyteen books