Monstrous Fiction

Creatures of the night....Monsters...and lovers?

Updated November 30, 2024
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Baldree, Travis
Paper Book
An Instant #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 An Amazon Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2023 When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may...
Swamp story : a novel
Barry, Dave
Paper Book
Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author--and actual Florida Man--Dave Barry returns with a "hilariously funny" (Steve Martin) caper full of oddballs and more twists and turns than a snake slithering away from a gator. Jesse Braddock is trapped in a...
Devolution : a firsthand account of the Rainier Sasquatch massacre
Brooks, Max.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with "the Bigfoot thriller you didn't know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I've ever read" (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and ...
Working For Bigfoot
Butcher, Jim.
Ebook
Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is used to mysterious clients with long hair and legs up to here. But when it turns out the long hair covers every square inch of his latest client's body, and the legs contribute to a nine-foot height, even the redoubtable detective realizes he's treading new...
Grunge
Correia, Larry
Paper Book
TWO MULTIPLE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHORS TEAM UPTO EXPAND LARRY CORREIA'S MONSTER HUNTER UNIVERSE!
Both Feet In The Grave
Frost, Jeaniene
Ebook
If you thought you learned more about the dangerous and sexy alpha vampire, Bones, in the USA Today bestselling scorcher, THE OTHER HALF OF THE GRAVE, you haven't seen anything yet. Bones is back to tell you his side of what happened when he spent four long years looking...
Lesser known monsters of the 21st century : stories
Fu, Kim
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 26TH ANNUAL DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022 Featured...
Two twisted crowns
Gillig, Rachel
Paper Book
In the New York Times bestselling sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must confront the weight of her actions as she and Ravyn embark on a perilous quest to save the kingdom--perfect for readers of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and ...
Red rabbit
Grecian, Alex
Paper Book
"Impossible to put down." --Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble A ragtag posse must hunt down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts--where death is always just around the bend--in this new supernatural horror by...
Smolder
Hamilton, Laurell K.
Paper Book
Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It's part of her job as a Preternatural U.S. Marshal, after all. But even her experience isn't enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everything--and everyone--she loves.   Anita Blake is engaged to...
In charm's way
Harper, Lana
Paper Book
Seven months after having been hit by an accidental power surge that nearly obliterated her memory, Delilah Harlow is still picking up the pieces. Her once diamond-sharp mind has become shaky and unreliable, and bristly, self-sufficient Delilah is forced to rely on friends, family, and her raven...
Miss Benson's Beetle
Joyce, Rachel.
Paper Book
She's going too far to go it alone.
Night's edge
Kerin, Liz
Paper Book
"Complex and fully realized, Kerin's vampire apocalypse has a palpable beating heart."--Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six Night's Edge by Liz Kerin takes a bite out of vampire lore in this blood-soaked novel about the darkest...
What feasts at night
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2024 A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee Enter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale...
Chasm
McEwan, Stacey
Paper Book
The second book in the TikTok series sensation The Glacian Trilogy from Stacey McEwan Dawsyn's fight to save the people of the Ledge is far from over in this thrilling and highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling romantasy, Ledge --- Dawsyn's...
The Meister Of Decimen City
Raney, Brenna
Ebook
No one cares that you cured cancer if you also cloned a horde of dinosaurs and let them rampage down the street. Supergenius and quasi-villain Rex normally can't go a week without accidentally endangering Decimen City with her science shenanigans. It's been two weeks since her...
St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves : stories
Russell, Karen
Paper Book
Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia! and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove. In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author...
Death in the dark woods
Ryan, Annelise
Paper Book
Business has been booming since Morgan Carter solved the case of the monster living in Lake Michigan. The Odds and Ends bookstore is thriving, of course, but Morgan is most excited by the doors that were opened for her as a cryptid hunter. Recently, there have been numerous sightings of a...
A Death in Door County
Ryan, Annelise.
Ebook
A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan. Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds...
The Darwin strain : an R. J. MacCready novel
Schutt, Bill
Paper Book
The authors of Hell's Gate and The Himalayan Codex deliver their third high-octane thriller--a page-turning blend of science, history, and suspense featuring zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready. "Looks like Schutt and Finch are filling the void left by the passing of Michael...
Dooku : Jedi Lost
Scott, Cavan
Digital file
In this Star Wars audio original, delve into the cutthroat world of one of the High Republic's greatest foes, the merciless Lourna Dee.   The Nihil storm has raged through the galaxy, leaving chaos and grief in its wake. Few of its raiders are as vicious as the Tempest...
Frankenstein, or, The modern prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
  No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright...
Phaedra : a novel
Shepperson, Laura
Paper Book
DEBUT AUTHOR: A "powerful and compulsively readable" feminist retelling of one of the most maligned figures of Greek mythology--perfect for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe (Booklist). Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister...
Chlorine : a novel
Song, Jade
Paper Book
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts...
The hobbit, or, There and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
The stirring adventure that begins The Lord of the Rings, the greatest fantasy epic of all time When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim the hoard of gold stolen from them by the evil dragon Smaug, Gandalf the wizard suggests an...
The beast you are : stories
Tremblay, Paul
Paper Book
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World. Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push...
We are the crisis : a novel
Turnbull, Cadwell
Paper Book
The long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces. Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca's old wolf pack have begun to go...

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