Most Popular Species in Fictional Novels

If you are free online fiction lover, it would be not difficult for you to find out that some genres are relatedly popular among all fictional works, for example, romance, mystery/crime, or fantasy. In fact, just take a look at all forms of literature, you will see that there is an interesting topic might be useful for new writers: species that characters in a novel belong to.
One of the most fascinating incentive for fiction writers are the power they could use to set free bold and unrestrained idea free, when they can create some characters that do not exist in real world. Some genres are frequently used throughout the history of literature. You can develop your stories based on these species, or, you certainly can create a brand-new one at your will. Just see how many wonderful creatures J. K. Rowling has shown you.
The funny thing is that, generally speaking, you can divide these species of characters into three categories.

The Dead: A lot of characters could be related to death, including vampire, zombie and ghost.
As in European folklore, vampire is a kind of immortal creature feeding on blood, and its name firstly appeared in 1734. However, it is not until 19th century when it evolves into the impression on people with a pale countenance. It undoubtedly a main role in literature, horror fiction and even romance fiction for certain kind of morbid fascination. Here are some online books telling stories of vampire: How To Be A Vampire by Alexandra Yang, and, The Vampire King’s Young Mate by Wickedwith.
Zombie is quite a hit keyword during these years, especially in horror film. It is described as an undead walking body of a human or animal corpse. It could be traced back to a poet in the year of 1819 as “zombi”. We are possibly most familiar with this reanimated species in the title of Resident Evil, covering video games, novels and action movies.
Ghost is a name rather popular in lots of culture background, including Asia, Africa and Europe. It is always in different regions’ folklore. The haunt, or the spirit of dead person is the origin of a horror or a sad story in novels. You can try the short story of A Moonlit Ghost Story by Lawinbabe Hawker, or The Elven Queen by Ariel-Aristophel.

Nonhuman Shape and Shape-shifting:Werewolf, merpeople and centaurs are all imaginary creatures with a shape combing human and animal or having shape-shifting power.
When you are talking about werewolf, a typical scene with a howling wolf under the moonlight might possibly come to your mind. Since medieval period, there have been some sayings about werewolf, in which normal human will transform into a wolf for reason. Maybe it is on purpose, cursed or infected. Werewolf0917’s online novles, including The Second Chance, The Forbidden Love and Some Don't Love Back are all about the adventure of werewolf.
Merpeople, or, mermaid (merman for male) illustrate the dreamy aqua world. But still, they might be terrifying or even aggressive like siren in Greek myth. Enjoying their reputation in Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia, mermaid has been appeared in lots of well-known fictions and fairy tales.
Another species you can also related to mythology is centaur. Centaurs are believed to social inhabitant in forests or mountains, and they are good fighters in literature and arts.

Divine and Magic: Although elves and angel are somewhat cliché, it is not saying that you can’t breathe new life into these keywords.
Frequently featuring in fantasy fictions and movies, immortal elves always enchanted people with their elegant appearance, surprising magical power of skillful archery and agile moves. You can discover them in The Elven Queen by Ariel-Aristophel.
Originated from Bible, angels could be characters in romance fiction or fantasy story, such as Nithya’s My Mysterious Angel and Xeng Moua’s Angel of Light
Everyone should know about Harry Potter, or Gandolf. Yes, they are both wizards, the species that we can save the time to give you any explanation. Though they are human being, they come with magical power as legends and fairy tales had told us. Black Water, Black Magic, a science fiction by Erica Striker, would be interesting online novel for you to know magic.
You will never produce a complete list that covering all kinds of species or creatures in imagination. That’s what readers exactly hunger for more interesting things to come. As a writer, you can make full use of the above, or totally forget all about them and go in your own way.
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