That new three-story monster-house on the block, could you believe two mil, those show-off window arches and did you get a load of that corny balcony, all of it throwing the neighborhood out of whack, a crazy eyesore, but hey, it was driving property values up, he could live with that.

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"I didn't know I had a monster in my house, " she said.

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"We suggested that he give us some money rather than throwing it all away on his spoiled daughter so she can live in this enormous monster of a house, " she said.

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She said that Pedro and his mother moved in a year later, and Ms. Santiago's son helped Mr. Castro move "one of those monster old televisions" into his house.

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Del Toro had filled the house with dozens of monster maquettes from his films scale models created by special-effects shops during the early design phase, allowing the imaginary to become palpable.

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Ms Martin described her former partner as a "monster" and said the only guilt she felt was for letting Barry McCarney into her house.

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