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So, I wouldn't call the thing I'm writing right now horror, because I will be amazed if anyone above the age of ten decides they need to sleep with the lights on after reading it. I would, however, call it kind of creepy. And the creepy things in it need creepy names, which they don't have right now. Instead they have names like Library Snake and Raven Guy. So I want some help coming up with creepy names. Preferably these should sound like urban legends rather than fantasy monsters, although some fantasy monsters names are well-known enough in popular culture that they could actually work (calling one of these guys a goblin could work, for example, but something completely made up like Urugal probably won't work, even if it's a pretty good name in general).
Creepies what need naming are as follows:
Library Snake is a giant snake who lives in a crumbling library. He's only about as thick as a boa or other large-ish but still mortal snake, but he's several hundred feet long. He's constantly curled up on just about everything in his library, and is extremely sneaky, often watching trespassers without their knowing it. He has a homicidal disdain for visitors.
Raven Guy is a scary looking old man in a big black coat and top hat, both made of black feathers. He can turn into a flock of ravens (or maybe crows or some other black bird) at will. He works for the villain. He also has a partner the details of whom I haven't really worked out at all, so if you wanted to give him a name that works as one of a pair, that'd be cool.
The Sniper I think I might be okay with as-is, but I think I could definitely do better for him (he is a fairly major villain). He's got burned/scarred skin and no lips, so he is perpetually grinning, but is otherwise pretty much a normal human being. He has a bow and likes to teleport around and murder people for giggles.
The mutts are headless grey hound dogs with mangy fur and rings of teeth in the stump at the end of their neck.
The coats desperately need a better name. They wear gas masks and long black trench coats which they always keep buttoned up. They walk around with guns and shoot everything they see. They never speak, no one really knows where they came from or what they're up to, and people are pretty sure they just arose spontaneously because Otherworld is weird and arbitrary and does stuff like that sometimes.
For reference, some other names that I think worked out alright for some of the other monsters have been Queen Mab and Mister Jack Devil, although both of those are "good guy" monsters rather than villains, and thus don't need maximally creepy names.
Thanks in advance for helping.
Creepies what need naming are as follows:
Library Snake is a giant snake who lives in a crumbling library. He's only about as thick as a boa or other large-ish but still mortal snake, but he's several hundred feet long. He's constantly curled up on just about everything in his library, and is extremely sneaky, often watching trespassers without their knowing it. He has a homicidal disdain for visitors.
Raven Guy is a scary looking old man in a big black coat and top hat, both made of black feathers. He can turn into a flock of ravens (or maybe crows or some other black bird) at will. He works for the villain. He also has a partner the details of whom I haven't really worked out at all, so if you wanted to give him a name that works as one of a pair, that'd be cool.
The Sniper I think I might be okay with as-is, but I think I could definitely do better for him (he is a fairly major villain). He's got burned/scarred skin and no lips, so he is perpetually grinning, but is otherwise pretty much a normal human being. He has a bow and likes to teleport around and murder people for giggles.
The mutts are headless grey hound dogs with mangy fur and rings of teeth in the stump at the end of their neck.
The coats desperately need a better name. They wear gas masks and long black trench coats which they always keep buttoned up. They walk around with guns and shoot everything they see. They never speak, no one really knows where they came from or what they're up to, and people are pretty sure they just arose spontaneously because Otherworld is weird and arbitrary and does stuff like that sometimes.
For reference, some other names that I think worked out alright for some of the other monsters have been Queen Mab and Mister Jack Devil, although both of those are "good guy" monsters rather than villains, and thus don't need maximally creepy names.
Thanks in advance for helping.