--- title: The most popular mythical creatures for Halloween 2021 - The Hustle description: It’s Halloween weekend. What are you dressing up as? Also, the most popular monsters, according to social media. image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/836688534-News-Brief_2021-10-29T004726.417Z-scaled.webp --- # The most popular mythical creatures for Halloween 2021 ![Juliet Bennett Rylah](https://53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/53/assets/hubspot.com/web-team/WBZ/HubSpot%20Media/Blog%202021/Images/Nav/Optimized/TheHustle_Icon_Dark.svg) [Juliet Bennett Rylah](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/juliet-bennett-rylah) [Juliet Bennett Rylah Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/JBRylah) Published: October 29, 2021 Updated: October 11, 2023 *Viz: Singdhi Sokpo* ![The most popular mythical creatures for Halloween 2021](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/836688534-News-Brief_2021-10-29T004726.417Z-scaled.webp?width=595&height=400&name=836688534-News-Brief_2021-10-29T004726.417Z-scaled.webp) In a previous newsletter, we asked about your Halloween costumes. Here are some of our favorite responses: - Mrs. Frizzle, “space dress, red hair, lizard, and all” (Lindsey from Ann Arbor, MI) - The [Little Lad](https://www.delish.com/food-news/a37852270/who-is-the-berries-and-cream-guy) Who Loves Berries and Cream (Jillian from Worcester, MA) - A lobster in a 1970s Elvis costume — a shellfish impersonator (Martin from Surrey, BC, Canada) #### **What else is popular in 2021?** Other than Squid Game costumes? Well, price comparison website Money.co.uk scoured Reddit, Google, TikTok, and Instagram for mentions and searches of mythological creatures, assigning each a popularity score of 0-25 per platform. #### **Here are the top 5:** 1. Dragon (92) 2. Zombie (91) 3. Unicorn (90) 4. Vampire (83) 5. Elf (81) #### **Given our pop culture landscape, these results aren’t so surprising** - “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” came in hot with [new teasers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwwt25mheo) — and costume ideas — this month. - Zombies are always in, but stuff like the final season of “The Walking Dead” and Zack Snyder’s *Army of the Dead* have kept them top of braaaain. - We got plenty of new vamps this year from “American Horror Story: Red Tide” and a new season of “What We Do in the Shadows” to Netflix’s new horror flick, *Night Teeth*. And while fantasy horses are cool, what about dressing like your favorite tech [unicorn](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unicorn.asp)? [This guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/9shei5/heres_my_spacex_costume_for_halloween/) did it with SpaceX’s [Starman](https://www.space.com/spacex-starman-tesla-mars-flyby). 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