Monster Evil

These pages rescue you from an abusive relationship. When Sarah met Luis he was charming, funny, and smart. He doted on her and wanted to spend every waking moment with her. She felt seen, loved. With each day they spent together, Sarah fell deeper into his web. As their relationship progressed, Sarah realized Luis wasn’t the man she thought he was. As Luis settled into a career in law enforcement, he became more and more abusive to her and his family. Luis’s behavior began to escalate. Sarah struggled to protect herself and her children from the monster in her home. When Sarah left him...

The first book in an action-packed, witty LitRPG series about a regular giu given a farm to cultivate when the world told him he would never be a hero. But when he proves more resourceful than anyone expected, he draws the attention of some very dangerous monsters to his farm… Nick was just...

For the first time, the complete story of Ed Gein told through actual court transcripts, police reports, and psychiatric evaluations—not Hollywood fiction. The actual legal documents from America's most notorious criminal case reveal a monster far more disturbing than any movie portrayal. These are the real words of the investigators who found the bodies, the psychiatrists who examined Gein's twisted mind, and the judges who struggled to comprehend evil beyond imagination. Evidence of Evil is built entirely from documented testimony, suppressed confessions, and firsthand accounts from the...

All Sian wanted was a quiet moment to make out with her new girlfriend. Instead, she and the adorably monstrous Trillin find themselves trapped by a world whose fairytale magic has very strict ideas about who gets a happily-ever-after. Princesses exist to be rescued. Heroes do the rescuing. And monsters? Monsters get killed. In a world where happy-ever-after has teeth, Sian and Trillin are going to learn to bite back.

A hilarious and addictive first book by Kenny King, a cultivation fantasy/system optimization series—perfect for fans of Beware of Chicken and He Who Fights With Monsters—where an underpowered hero must level up in a strange fantasy world through sheer determination and endless persistence...

An ancient evil awakens on the storm-lashed coast. For the tourists flocking to Valentia Island's annual festival, the jagged rock of Skellig Michael is a picturesque landmark. For Caleb O'Rourke, it's a final, desperate sanctuary—a place so remote, he hopes the beast inside him can finally be contained. But the island is not a refuge. It is a cage. When a full moon rises over the Atlantic, a primal hunger is unleashed. The fishing trawler returning to the festival carries a passenger of pure, instinctual slaughter. What begins as a night of celebration descends into a bloodbath as a ...

From an absolutely unmissable voice in cozy fantasy, this tale shares the story of fae, folklore, and found family, told by a charismatic lake-dwelling monster with a voice unlike any other. Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce...

Stay Away - An amazingly original horror novel from Ike Hamill Every small town has secrets. Some secrets can kill. He’s always been there, the old gentleman in the funeral suit, hanging around the big oak tree. Even before the cemetery was dug, the natives knew about him. He was just as much a part of the landscape as the rocks or the river. If you ever needed anything, especially if it was a matter of life and death, you could find him and make a trade. He always trades fair. Everybody says so. Eric is about to trade without even realizing it. He isn’t tricked. It’s only a mistake. ...

When tragedy orphans eight-year-old Joe Bentley, he's plunged into a life of pain, chaos, and nightmares. Years later, as an adult, he discovers that nightmares are the least of his worries. While vacationing, he's attacked and bitten by a vicious beast… but his wound heals overnight. On the following nights, Joe becomes the beast, exacting bloody revenge against those who have crossed him. His nocturnal activities don’t go unnoticed. Working with local law enforcement, FBI agent John Morgan makes it his personal mission to track down the monster responsible for the killings. Morgan ...

The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations and share so many features across different cultures.

A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, a self-proclaimed vampire slayer—in truth, a traveling con artist—joins forces with a teenage girl to create a monster deadly enough to vanquish their own demons. We make monsters in order to destroy them. For...

12 short stories of terror. Demons from hell. Gods and Devils. Unspeakable monstrosities. Humans with a taste for flesh. An upscale clothing store in the middle of New York City that offers its customers more than they bargained for. A prodigal son returns home for his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that an ancient entity awaits. A town shelters against the first snow, and the evil it brings. A mad king. A hired assassin. A world in the balance and an eternal force manipulating all of them. And seven other tales of horror that will forever change the way you experience the holiday ...

The second book in an action-packed, epic, and hilarious LitRPG fantasy series about an underdog who was never supposed to be a hero—but when he’s forced to manage a cursed magical farm, he proves himself far more resilient (and luckier) than any monster—or god—expected. Nicholas Parker...

Caleb Mercer, the best mountain rescue specialist in the Cascades, knows some calls are a death sentence. When a lone hiker vanishes on Mount Hood just as the storm of the century is about to hit, Caleb’s gut tells him to stay home. He’s already brought one ghost down from that mountain, and he has no desire to create another. But when the sheriff pleads for his help, Caleb assembles a small, desperate team for a rescue that’s already a suicide mission. The brutal, unnatural storm is the least of their worries. As they ascend, they find signs that something else is using the blizzard ...

When Grace sees her name flashing on the TV screen, she knows this is the last day of her life. She’s being drafted as this year’s sacrifice to the monster that lurks beneath her world. It will keep her people safe, prevent her sisters from being the one chosen instead, even if it means she’ll be eaten whole once she’s lowered into the ground. They put her into a softer dress than she’s ever worn, feed her a meal she could never afford otherwise, and tell her what an honor it is to have been selected. Then she’s placed in the shaft that will take her to her fate. Only, once ...

I didn't even like the man whose life I saved. Kardri Vangrarre is my warlord; I serve as a captain in his army—the Leopard Army. I respect him, and even admire him, but I don't like him. At all. He's vain, arrogant, and way too public with his abundant love life. In fact, he was right in the middle of one of his freaky, public orgies when we were attacked. I acted purely on instinct when I pushed him out of the way. I had no idea that I'd get hit instead, or that the green fireball would kill me. The Leopard Lord didn't have to save my life just because I saved his, but that's what he ...

A small-town farmer needs $500 cash after a devastating divorce, so he takes a miserable overnight job cleaning out the town's colossal, derelict grain silos. What he uncovers beneath the concrete floor is not sludge, but a vast, living, subterranean network. The Nest Is Awake. A swarm of alien arachnids—intelligent, coordinated, and using corrosive venom—is emerging from the earth's depths. They communicate with rhythmic clicks and travel undetected through the valley's drainage and irrigation pipes. The annual Harvest Feast has just begun, drawing the entire population into a single, ...

Some doors should never be opened. Elias Kreel was a conman. A thief. A nobody looking for the next quick score. But when he stole an ancient book from a forgotten museum vault, he unleashed something older than sin itself—Mammon, a demon of chaos, greed, and destruction. Now possessed by a force he barely understands, Elias finds himself stronger, faster, unkillable… and utterly consumed. He walks a blood-soaked path through cities of sin, leaving horror and ruin in his wake as the demon inside him whispers promises of power and revenge. But the deeper Elias sinks, the more he begins ...

Working under California's Sexually Violent Predator Law, Samantha Stein, PsyD, faces such offenders alone, one by one, in a prison interview room. As a forensic psychologist, her high-stakes decisions can determine the difference between a life lived back in society or one condemned to indefinite incarceration.

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