Monster Halloween

She came to watch the moon. He came to claim his mate. Amateur astronomer Marina Cross is determined to capture the perfect photo of the rare blood moon. She ignores the warning signs and sneaks onto restricted land, finding a clearing that feels ancient and sacred. She thinks she's alone, ready for a celestial spectacle. But the clearing belongs to Kaedor, the exiled alpha of a werewolf pack. The crimson light of the eclipse awakens a primal madness within him, a need to hunt, to claim, to possess. When he finds a human female on his sacred altar stone, he sees not an intruder, but a gift ...

🎃 10 Spooky (but Not Too Spooky) Halloween Stories for Kids! 👻 Looking for Halloween stories that won’t keep your little pumpkins awake all night? 10 Halloween Spooky Stories for Kids (Ages 5–7) is packed with funny, friendly, and just-spooky-enough tales that make bedtime in October a treat instead of a trick. Meet the Characters Your Kids Will Love: A giggly pumpkin who can’t stop laughing A lonely ghost who only wants to play hide-and-seek A tap-dancing skeleton who steals the show A sleepy vampire who forgets how to be scary And even a haunted house that just wants friends ...

It's time to party monster-style, and you're invited! Listen along as Vampirina and her family throw a scary fun party that's sure to go down in history.

She summoned him for fun. He claimed her forever. Rowan Hale’s drunken ritual was a joke, until it wasn’t. Her chant summons a real god from the earth, the primal Pumpkin King. Druros is a creature of fire and vines with a desperate hunger, and he declares her his bride, the anchor he needs to survive. He isn't asking, he's taking. Bound by living vines and claimed in raw, punishing rituals, Rowan becomes his altar. He calls her his soil, his harvest, made only to be filled with his seed. Every act of defiance is met with a brutal reminder of who she belongs to. But beneath the terror, ...

She was born to be the sacrifice. The monster was meant to be her end. But in a forest of lies, the most dangerous thing is the truth. In the dying town of Hallow’s End, cursed to an endless autumn, witch Aveline Thorne has one purpose: to die. Each year, an anchor is chosen for the Harrowing, a ritual sacrifice to reinforce the magical hedge that protects her people from the blighted Gloomwood. To save her ailing sister, Aveline will walk willingly to her doom. But the monster in the woods is not what the legends claim. Nemain is no mindless beast, but an ancient, vengeful being trapped ...

Get ready for fun, spooky chills, and plenty of mischief—Mountainville style! Oh, and don’t forget sexy, stern Daddies, cute Littles, and loving Mommies. This is going to be a blast. Because this is a Mountainville Halloween… Monica is a handful. She’s in the business of getting into trouble and business is booming! The cute but naughty Little is turning Mountainville upside down. Meanwhile, Turner Banks has hit a rough patch. Sure, he’s a rich, handsome professional quarterback, but when a bone-jarring injury knocks him out of the game, he’s sidelined. Needing time to heal, he ...

Everyone knows that Halloween is the one night of the year when monsters, ghouls, and nightmarish creatures of all types can walk freely among us. Caution is needed. But for Evie, caution is the last thing on her mind when she follows a masked stranger into the woods after he saves her from a gruesome fate.

She was dared to enter the crypt. He was awakened by her scream. A Halloween dare turns into a nightmare when college student Sienna Graves is dragged into a forgotten tomb. Her captor is Morien, a skeletal crypt keeper animated by dark magic and driven by centuries of gnawing hunger. He sees her not as a person, but as a vessel for the life force he craves, a new pet to be broken and used. He claims her body with brutal possession, determined to hear her screams echo off the ancient stone. But Sienna’s defiant spirit calls to something other than his hunger. Her unwilling surrender ...

Mia is reluctant to go camping with her boyfriend and sister, who are graduate students working on a dissertation about American folklore. But ultimately, they convince her to help document the trip. The group sets off to Black Creek, a remote destination in the Pacific Northwest where Bigfoot has allegedly been sighted. They think they’re prepared for anything, but their sense of terror grows as they find more and more evidence to suggest the monster really is out there. Eventually, Mia realizes she’ll be lucky just to make it out of the woods alive.

As I approach my first-year anniversary in Monstreuse, I'm wishing that my fellow students were the only danger...But when you're secretly the reason everyone in the monster reserve is no longer normal, and you can't help it, life is more complicated. I still don't know our admin's plans for me, and worse, the Society wants revenge on me. Rumblings from the normal world tell us we could all be in grave danger soon.

The book tells the stories and explains the legends behind the some of the greatest movie monsters in history. Charting their history from myths and fables told over the centuries, the author guides the reader from the past to the present day, as the Universal Monsters prepare to return to the silver screen for their biggest adventures yet. The classic Universal Monsters have been scaring and delighting audiences for decades. But did you know that these maniacal creeps have been frightening people throughout history? Find out about all the old world folk stories, legends and myths before ...

When Aethelthryth—“Ethel” to her modern-day Manhattan neighbors—finds her sworn nemesis Lazlo Enyedi with no memory of who or what they are, an ancient hunt becomes an unexpected chance at forbidden passion. He’s crashing on her couch, solving her sudoku puzzles, and looking at her like she’s his eternal flame (minus the whole bursting-into-ashes part). As his memories slowly return, Ethel realizes she might be in danger of losing more than just her head…

This chilling collection of horror-infused novelettes is crafted for mature readers who crave the macabre. Within these pages, twisted tales of possession, ravenous monsters, vengeful demons, love stories turned nightmare, and deeply rooted phobias claw their way to life. Each story is a separate haunt — from modern horrors to ghost-haunted histories, and even a bleak future scarred by a deadly plague. Fallon and Lewis have collaborated on writing projects for three years. Together, they have crafted their debut anthology, with guest author Rissa Miller, Historian and Seer. Combining ...

☠️ She went looking for answers. She found the Horseman who’s been waiting a century for her. ❄️ Delia Marrow doesn’t believe in cursed roads, ghost riders, or the old stories whispered about Old Raven Road. Then the fog rolls in. The world tilts. And she steps straight into 1863. A soldier rides toward his death. A curse rises from grief and unfinished love. And the Headless Horseman, born in blood and witchfire, locks his impossible green eyes on her like he’s found something he lost long ago. They say he rides for vengeance. They say he hunts brides who run. But the way he ...

Petra is skeptical when it comes to the French Quarter’s creepy urban legends. Until she meets Dax Rousseau, the proprietor of the House of Ink and Blood. The eldritch markings on his flesh tell more than the tale of a doomed bloodline. They come slitheringly alive. And the nearer Petra gets to the maddeningly sexy Dax, the closer she is to being the next victim of his ancient family curse.

BONUS FEATURE: Afterword read by the author Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I’ll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. Monster. FADE...

He carved stories into stone. The stone reached back. Folklorist Jude Rowan descends into an Appalachian cavern to escape grief and gather fragments of myth. But the altar he uncovers is more than relic and ruin—it is a Veiled Place, where silence hums with memory and every tremor carries his name. Kael, the obsidian golem bound beneath the mountain, has endured centuries of stillness—aching for touch, for devotion, for release. His strength is carved into the earth itself, his hands the only ones strong enough to hold a heart that refuses to heal. Jude should turn back. Instead, he ...

She lit the wrong candle. He came to collect. Artist Isabel Crane’s only goal is to win her town's Halloween pumpkin carving contest. Her masterpiece is a thing of terrifying beauty, and all it needs is the flicker of a candle to bring it to life. But when she whispers a hopeful wish into the flame, she summons more than just the spirit of the season. She calls him. Ignis, the Jack-O'-Lantern King, a massive wraith of fire and shadow, rises to answer. Bound by an ancient curse and burning with centuries of hollow lust, he declares Isabel his prize for setting him free. Her body is the ...

She trespassed in his field. Now she is his harvest. A Halloween car crash leaves Delilah Price stranded and stumbling into a cornfield ruled by a creature of nightmare. Silas is no ordinary scarecrow. He is a sentient spirit, a possessive guardian of the land who sees her intrusion as a binding contract. He intends to punish her trespass, claim her body, and make her his bride in the dirt and shadows. His touch is rough, his words a litany of filthy promises that awaken a dark hunger she never knew she possessed. “You are mine,” he growls, “My harvest.” He ties her to his cross, ...

She came for a cheap thrill. He was waiting to devour her soul. Helena Moss chases adrenaline, and the abandoned manor at the edge of town promises the perfect high. She expects fake scares and actors in masks, not a sentient nightmare that locks the doors behind her and refuses to let her go. He is Malrix, an incubus bound to the decaying mansion, and he’s been starving for centuries. Helena’s potent blend of terror and burgeoning arousal is a feast he can’t possibly resist. He stalks her through reality-bending halls, a beautiful predator toying with his prey. With every phantom ...