La Monstrenca

La Mostrenca is a tale that is told to Andalusian children to scare them to an early, silent sleep; for if they are not good, La Mostrenca will come. A terrible tale made manifest by way of gaping maw, a hunched, pocked, gurgling denouement ripping the tide wide open in search of fresh ears to burrow into. She hides not in cupboards or under beds, but in angler's nets, wide eyed and slavering in sleepless death, waiting to devour them whole.