Favorite Mythical Monster

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I like Will o' the Wisps, creatures found in folklore from Newfoundland and Wales. They use their lights to lure unwary travelers deeper into the dark misty swamp until the poor traveler is lost forever.

Ooops, I'm still too new to post an image. You never actually get to see the fairies anyway, because according to legend, the lights keep getting farther away as you approach them.

Dragons

Kraken

Vampires, ghosts, dragons, bigfoot, gray aliens, chupacabra, and the Loch Ness Monster. I'm more into modern myths.

Kobolds from D&D. Easy to kill, good drops, etc.

Mr. Potato Head

Ouroboros.
Maybe I just like all the o's in the word. Giant worm eating his own tail. Eternally. The Moebius strip of the mythical beings.

Cerebus.
Just think - he's got company all the time. Never alone. There's an issue there of such a situation being both good and bad.... the conflict of company being better vs alone being better always intruigued me.

Lucifer

#1 - Dragons

No question about it. Dragons!

Yeah sure, dragons are cool. The sheer size and power of them...

But my personal favourite are the Each Uisge. They are waterbound creatures mostly found in northern Britain. They hide in lakes and when a human comes too near to the water they just drag him in and eat him. They don't like the liver though and just spit that out. Usually the liver is the only thing ever found of a Each Uisge victim.
In some versions of the tail they can also change into a man-like shape to seduce women. It's more common though that they change into the shape of a wellbred horse that wanders around close to the water's edge. When a human comes near, the horse will be friendly towards him and even offer him a ride. But when somebody falls for that trick and mounts the horse he gets glued to the (magically) sticky back of the Each Uisge, which then runs to its home-lake to drown and devour the unfortunate rider.

If it doesn't have to be an monster, I'd say that Kitsune are pretty cool, too. They are very old and powerfull fox-spirits of the Japanese mythology, which can change into the shape of a beautifull woman. They are mostly harmless, though some of them love to play tricks on humans. Kitsune have even been known to marry humans and have children with them, but they will usually abandon their families once they are found out to be spirits rather than humans.

Honey monster.

The Loch Ness Monster. Of course.

Mermaid definitely Andersen's story is amazing.

Cthulhu