Monster Fiction

31 Brand-New Dark Fantasy Horror Stories. Bloody corridors of ancient rock. A castle surrounded by poisonous thorns. A lost temple of traps and corpses. A subaqueous cave at the bottom of a cursed lake. These are the places where secrets are buried, where ancient evils are summoned, where beasts are imprisoned, where the insane lie in wait. These are tombs of darkness and nightmare, where if you stare into the abyss, the abyss will stare back. Heed the warnings of your elders and return from whence you came. Ahead lie monster lairs.

The war was never only about men. After surviving the horrors beneath the frozen forests of the Ardennes, Lieutenant Declan Caine and his Hunters know the creatures unleashed at Bastogne were no isolated experiment. Somewhere inside Germany, the architects of the nightmare are still working—and they are getting better at what they do. Now General George S. Patton has another mission for them. Deep within the Black Forest, an American convoy has been slaughtered. The evidence points to something the Hunters have seen before, but the attack is different. More organized. More deliberate. ...

Three standalone monster-girl mono-romances for men, collected in one volume!

When a mysterious sound interrupts Cookie Monster's snack time, he follows that sound—hoping to find something tasty! Instead, he discovers super silly mysteries featuring a tap-dancing dinosaur, a not-so-sleepy baby, a mischievous monkey, and more surprising friends. With help from his Sesame Street pals, Cookie Monster learns to ask questions, follow clues, and stay focused (well, sort of). While nothing beats om-nom-nomming cookies, solving mysteries with friends comes pretty close.

When the police need to crawl inside the mind of a monster, they call Caroline. As a child, Caroline was abducted along with her twin sister. For over a year, their captor forced them to play his sick games, using their hunger to test the lengths they’d go to survive. Caroline escaped. Her sister didn’t. Now a young woman gnawed by survivor’s guilt, Caroline’s horrific past has left her with a unique gift to understand the twisted motivations of serial killers. She couldn’t save her sister—but she can at least help the police keep other girls safe.

On the run from my cruel captors, I stumble into Grayhaven. This secret supernatural settlement is packed with biker demons, fae royals, and witches dealing in death-magic. Their small town could be my salvation...or doom. But when the Grayhaven werewolf pack tracks me down, I feel the noose of impending capture tightening around my throat. I’m an omega, the least dominant werewolf in the supernatural world. If I’m given an order - any order - I’m powerless to refuse.

When I answered an ad for a caretaker at Saint Mark’s Sanctuary, I thought I’d be dusting chandeliers and polishing floors. I didn’t expect to be tricked into a curse, going into debt to a monster, and being forced to take a self-paced “let’s learn magic” course so I can fix a 2,000-year-old problem. And that monster? Not your ordinary, everyday beast. He has hooves, and horns, and fur on his legs. But you know where he doesn’t have fur? Yeah. There. Which is fine. Except he doesn’t wear pants.

Individual books in this series are averaging 4.3 stars on over 1000 ratings! The complete series of the wild Dirty Girls sci-fi fantasy story that has earned great reviews: "Wow! Very good read." "A well written science fiction harem story." "Great story! Fun, sexy and surprisingly enthralling." Dirty Girls is a story about a falsely convicted man that avoids the death sentence to become part of a scientific experiment. Our unlikely hero, Kash steps through a portal to end up on another planet at a different time. Fighting for his life among dragons and otherworldly beasts, he is delighted...

He rescued her from a minefield. Then she blew up his life. Nora Ellis crashes through an alien minefield and wakes up naked aboard a living warship - rescued by the most dangerous creature she’s ever met: a Chief Harrower who commands armies, strips worlds bare, and has never once been told “no.” She tells him “no” constantly. She’s a stranded space pilot who’d rather die than reveal Earth’s location. Krix’vorr a giant alien warlord who needs that location to save his own life. And she’s no longer sure whether she’s his guest… or his captive. The lightning that ...

She hunts cryptids for a living. But this time, the monster might be one of her own. When Lux Branson is called to the Louisiana bayou to investigate a string of brutal attacks, she expects gators, folklore, or maybe a rogue bear. What she finds is something far worse—witnesses who speak of a creature with glowing eyes, claws like knives, and a howl that chills the soul. Locals call it the Rougarou. Lux calls it a nightmare come to life. But this mission is more than just another hunt. As she digs deeper, she uncovers a dark family secret and a personal connection that threatens to ...

The barrier is breaking. Enemies are rising. And the only thing more dangerous than a kingdom at war… is a mate who was never meant to leave.

Not all monsters are fantasy. Some are very real, and they walk among us. They're our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers. They're the people we're supposed to trust...and they know it. Contained within this anthology are 35 never-before-published works by supremely talented authors and best-selling novelists. Brace yourself for the unexpected and unimaginable horror of...human monsters.

I’m out for revenge. He’s out to rule the world. Kirill and I are as different as day and night. We shouldn’t have been in the same frame or universe. But we meet under the strangest circumstances. He’s my superior in the military and the man who’ll introduce me to carnage.

Crawlerz: All the books from the best selling series. Seven books (Over 2,500 pages). One ancient evil. A family holding on as the world falls apart. It started with a viral livestream. Archaeologists opened a mysterious tomb on camera and triggered something no one understood. What escaped wasn't gold or ancient secrets. It was a contagion that rewrote the rules of nature. At first it was subtle. A few strange behaviors. A little violence. Then the infection spread. Cities collapsed. People changed. They didn’t die. They evolved. Twisted, crawling, climbing, watching. Smarter than anyone...

An action-packed LitRPG with a unique magic system where XP powers everything from streetlights to ventilators. Experience isn't just a number. It’s the currency of survival. Raz Ardelaen spent his whole life working to become a warlord. While most Marked society dreamed of a simple life joining an agency, Raz wanted to be remembered. Preferably while enjoying a glorious retirement in the lap of luxury, with an excess of both gold and respect due to all his remarkable achievements. All is going according to plan until an infuriating run-in with an Unmarked woman named Speri.

A Vengeful Killer Carries Out an Insidious Plan of Death and Retribution When a troubled woman is lured to her death in the small coastal town of Belle Harbor, Florida, Special Agent Bailey Flynn discovers an unsettling connection between the gruesome murder and the mutilated body of a teenage girl found hidden in a long-abandoned grave. As the local police begin an investigation into the latest homicide and quickly identify a surprising prime suspect, Bailey realizes that all is not as it seems. And when a resource working closely with the investigation becomes the killer’s next victim, ...

Danny Pruitt should have turned back before the blizzard trapped him on Stillwater Mountain. A massive beast tracks him through the snow, moving faster than a man and hunting with lethal precision. Jack Pinter and his teenage son, Patrick, are stranded in Cabin Four as the storm cuts off all communication. The temperature drops by the hour, and the howling starts outside in the dark. They barricade the doors and prepare to fight. But the pack outside is smart, using abandoned mining tunnels to coordinate their attacks from below. With the generator dying and their barricades splintering, ...

In a kingdom ruled by dark magic, Deneb strikes a desperate bargain to save her mother: kill the Crown Prince, Varkein, and the Dark Prince Aedan will grant her the countercurse. But at the royal feast, everything unravels. Varkein isn’t the heartless tyrant she imagined—yet she stabs him anyway. Captured by his guardians, she begs him to let her go. “I swear I’ll return. And my life will be yours.” She does return—but with vengeance burning in her veins. Her mother is dead, murdered by Aedan.

She spends her days chasing around her high-energy, half-shifter toddler and her nights working full-time trying to make ends meet. Oh, and add in the absolute cluster of a situation her ex dumped in her lap on his way out? Well, that's just icing on the cake. With virtually no options left, Emerson heads for Haven, a sanctuary city for monsters and humans alike. Survival means taking a job at The Monster's Den—a club that caters to the inhuman residents of her new home. But freedom comes with complications of its own.

Step into the shadowy world behind Hollywood’s most iconic creatures with Monsters Unborn! Drawing on unproduced scripts and decades of behind-the-scenes history, author Bruce Kilkowski Jr. uncovers a treasure trove of “lost” stories from haunting gothic re-imaginings to bold futuristic reinventions that never made it to the screen. Packed with new research, this book brings to life abandoned visions of legendary monsters like the Bride of Frankenstein, the Mummy, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, revealing just how close they came to rising again.