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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 414 This monster-master stout, This Hercules..they tender.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 5 Sharkes..are alwayes directed by a little specled fish, called a pilot fish, by guiding their Monster-masters to a prey.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge vii. 274 It's wrung from me by the dreadful brutality of that monster master.

1889 Catholic World Sept. 805 Latour was the monster master from whose cruelties he had fled.

1999 J. T. Gold & J. Gold Monsters & Madonnas (rev. ed.) i. 6 Implied transformations generally involve a person or animal that becomes the slave or representative of its monster master, fulfilling the monster's purpose but not actually undergoing a metamorphosis itself.