Related Clues:

• Old monarchs
• Kings, perhaps, get to the stable first via a new star
• Monsters getting in the way of progress
• Cruel people turn back and resent losing fifty percent
• Emperors finally contract severe lung infection
• ...trolls around in grosser goatee
• Beasts try turning back regarding head of sorceress
• More than one monster draws blood -- leading character falls
• Lesser gods holding monsters back
• Old house shortly to house grand monsters
• Savages consequently brought up on Sabbath
• Onetime Russian rulers
• Bugbears, creating havoc in rose garden, for a start
• Grimm brutes
• Baddies of fairy tales