The main result of this work is an explicit construction of p-local subgroups of the Monster, the largest sporadic simple group. The groups constructed are the normalizers in the Monster of certain subgroups of order 32 , 52 , and 72 and have shapes 32+5+10-(Af11 xGL(2, 3)), 52+2+4-(S3xGL(2, 5)), and 72+1+2 • GL(2, 7). These groups result from a general construction which proceeds in three step...