Monsters State

Fans of The Exorcist and Insidious will love this bone-chilling sequel to The Well—a haunting tale of an orphanage plagued by a malevolent force. Easton’s Home for Wayward Youth is no ordinary orphanage: it’s a house under siege. Ghostly footsteps echo through its halls. Objects hurl across rooms. And at the center of it all is Isiah—a jittery, terrified boy cruelly ostracized for everyone’s safety. Enter Jacob Waldmiller, a rogue priest with no credentials, no congregation, and no luck. His freelance exorcism gigs, scattered between paranoid students and superstitious grandmas, ...

Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler of the strange J. W. Ocker not only uncovers the bizarre stories of these creatures but investigates the ways in which communities have embraced and celebrated their local cryptids.

Fans of The Conjuring and The Amityville Horror will love this chilling new novel unraveling the tale of a family haunted by the ghosts of their malevolent ancestors’ disturbing past. The decrepit well has been a fountain of terror for generations, an abyss of dread that emits tragedy and death like fog. Its darkness touched Jacob’s soul some twenty years ago, and since moving back to his ancestral home, the chilling feeling of being in front of the old well hasn’t left his troubled mind. But this time, the shadows that creep from the well have taken on a malevolent sentience, ...

The question is not whether monsters walk among us. They do. They have. For thousands of years. On the borders of humdrummia and every day reality, be it the forest’s edge or a moonlit graveyard draped in gossamer spiders’ webs, the macabre is all about. For our souls, our sanity, the vital question to answer is: Just WHERE are all these blankety-blank monsters? Santa Clarita is a riparian bedroom community, an hour’s drive north of Los Angeles. It’s been home to giant, man-eating grizzly bears, ghosts, serial killers, devil cults, more ghosts, Bigfoot, werewolf encounters, UFO ...

THE MONSTER OF STATEN ISLAND The Shocking True Story of Andre Rand and the Children Who Vanished By Miles Donovan In the heart of New York’s forgotten borough, a shadow grew so dark that even time refused to forget it. Deep within the woods of Staten Island, hidden behind iron fences and rotting brick, stood the remains of Willowbrook State School—an institution that promised care, but instead became a breeding ground for neglect, fear, and tragedy. From those ruins, a new kind of horror emerged. It began with whispers, then vanished children, and finally, one man whose very name would ...

His very name inspires awe, horror, and, for some of the greatest masters of contemporary science fiction, a strong affection. Find out why in this special collector's edition of the original 1932 novelization of Wallace and Cooper's movie that includes commentary by masters of science fiction Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, Catherine Asaro, Jack Williamson, and Marc Zicree.

Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history—which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face. . . . Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters...

Who or what is Bigfoot? The simplest description is of a huge, hairy, muscular bipedal creature like a big ape and covered in hair ranging from black to brown to red to white depending it seems on the season as well you might see. The average heights reported are six to nine feet tall. Numerous North American peoples have mythologies concerning this mysterious creature and that would be an enormous book in its own right. I will stick to this which is the largest set of books on Bigfoot ever published which due to its size. It is in 5 volumes in paperback format. Over 1471 pages of Bigfoot ...

Deep in the woods of Ohio, something walks among us. From the legendary Minerva Monster to chilling recent encounters in Salt Fork and Wayne National Forest, Bigfoot in Ohio uncovers fourteen immersive, true narrative accounts of unexplained sightings across the state. Drawing on local witness testimony, public records, and eerie firsthand details, author Ethan Blackwood brings each story to life with suspense, atmosphere, and emotional realism. Whether it’s a hiker hearing guttural growls at dusk or a family terrorized near their cabin, these tales aren’t fiction — they’re part of ...

The deep woods of the Lone Star State hold secrets. On lonely backroads and in the shadow of sprawling suburbs, ordinary people have been confronted by an impossible, terrifying reality. For decades, whispers of a giant, hair-covered creature—a monster that walks on two legs—have haunted the dense, swampy bottomlands. Most dismiss them as folklore. But what if the stories are true? This chilling collection brings together the most compelling and detailed eyewitness testimony ever recorded. From a driver’s blood-chilling encounter on a dark highway and a teenager’s glimpse of a ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a sweeping epic of our greatest president, revealing for the first time his secret lifelong battle with the undead. Indiana. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a...

Ashley Morgan has been many things: a trainee spy for the House, a psychic superhero, a private detective, and a bounty hunter. However, she's lost all of those jobs because it turns out none of them are very easy in a city run by vampires. Now having her wounded sister recovering in her apartment, Ashley has to figure out who her latest enemies are. What she finds out are they may be closer to home than she ever imagined and targeting her old classmates at spy school for sale at an undead slave market.

The instant New York Times bestseller and laugh-out-loud look at pop culture and social media stardom from one of the most popular funemployed millennials today, perfect for fans of Give Them Lala and The Betches. As the creator of the breakout Instagram account @GirlWithNoJob, Claudia Oshry has...

A cozy paranormal romance for readers who love small-town charm, slow-burn chemistry, and the kind of secrets that change everything. When journalist Poppy Lockwood heads up Mountain Loop Highway to investigate a string of Bigfoot sightings near her hometown of Granite Falls, Washington, she expects local gossip and maybe a decent article. What she doesn't expect is massive footprints in the mud or the strange magnetic pull she feels standing where something huge once stood. Then she meets Abe Bigg, the quiet, red-haired owner of Bigg's Lumber. He's all flannel and sawdust, strong enough to...

"Major Tom" Corbett has come home–but it is a very different world than he left behind. His life-pod has touched-down into the middle of a nautical war, as massive mega-tooth sharks clash with gigantic reptilian sea-monsters–a conflict that spreads as giant prehistoric alpha-predators struggle for ultimate dominance on both land and sea.

Looking for a fresh start after the death of his partner, homicide detective Jack Lee and his wife move to Cedar Island, WA, where he accepts the position of chief of police. Jack hopes to leave his past behind him and settle into the small community. However, upon arriving, the body of a woman turns up, a child goes missing, and a devastating mudslide hits the town. Even crazier are the rumors of a Bigfoot lurking around. Enter Jack’s longtime friend, Dr. Allie Chandler, an anthropologist. Her lifetime obsession with Sasquatch could at least answer one of the burning questions plaguing ...

“An amazing collection of page-gripping short stories” -Amazon reviewer. “A beautifully crafted, highly entertaining horror collection.” -Amazon reviewer Are you ready to enter a world of darkness and fear? A world where the unknown lurks around every corner and terror is waiting just for you? Then welcome to a collection of horror stories from the renowned indie author, Samuel Small, that will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you questioning the boundaries of the unknown. From a middle schooler receiving texts from the dead, to a group of teens clowning around an ...

Jack Hill returned to his hometown of Mirage Creek, to do a book signing, at the wrong time, because something came to town right after Jack, something that came to kill, to destroy, to fulfill a town's destiny.

She gave herself to save her brother. He took her to make her kneel and then couldn’t stop watching her fall. Zoe walks into the ritual hall of the Black Veil to trade her dignity for her brother’s life. Stripped, displayed, and offered like a sacrifice, she expects cruelty. She expects pain. What she does not expect is Yuri, the Bratva enforcer masked in silver and control, who claims her with quiet authority and terrifying focus. He does not touch her first. He watches. And what begins as survival quickly spirals into spectacle, obedience, and obsession. Yuri was trained to control ...