Monster Halloween

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 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 ...

Never drink and summon a demon… My cousin is getting married. To my ex. Who cheated on me with her. And the whole family insists I must go. I can’t show up single. I need a date, even if it’s a fake one. The spell was supposed to bring me love. Not a devil. Not the literal King of the Underworld. Now, I’ve accidentally bound ourselves, so there’s no way out of this. The Demon King will have to be my pretend boyfriend. Just one problem: no one’s ever made me feel the way he does. The lines blur until they disappear. He’s a monster and we were supposed to be fake. Then why does ...

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.

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 ...

The Mother Goose Monsters have brewed up some mixed-up haunted fairy tales perfect for young listeners. These silly, spooky stories will make Halloween a frightful treat. Find out what happens one dark and stormy night when all of the little monsters take turns telling their favorite tale with a special “monster twist”.

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.

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.

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 ...

🎃 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 ...

🍎 He went apple-picking. He came back marked by the horned god. Theo Chambers thought a fall retreat in upstate New York would heal his burnout and boost his feed. What he found in the orchard was more than aesthetic fog and blood-red apples—it was a Veiled Place, where desire itself takes root. Ashwyn, the horned guardian of the grove, has waited centuries for a human willing to surrender. His touch is ritual, his kiss is prophecy, and his hunger is worship. Theo should run. Instead, he follows the music. As Samhain night descends, the orchard awakens—and Theo must decide if he’ll...

In June of 1941, at the height of World War II, something ancient and terrifying surfaced in the Pacific... On the verge of abandoning his life in Los Angeles, brash arms dealer William Curtis is given the chance for the biggest score of his career. What he has to do is simple: deliver arms smuggled out of Germany to the British aboard a passenger liner, the SS Britannia. But when a German Raider destroys the vessel, Will must fight for his life on the open ocean. And the elements are not his only worry. Those that survived in lifeboats are silently and inexplicably disappearing every night...

She was chosen for the fire, but claimed by the shadow. Village healer Elyse has always known her duty. When she is chosen as the annual harvest sacrifice, she prepares for a brutal end in the heart of the bonfire, her life the price for her people's prosperity. But the being that comes for her is not a nameless spirit. He is Morric, an ancient god of shadow, and he doesn't want her death. He wants her. He offers an impossible choice: perish as a failed offering, or kneel as his queen in a realm of eternal twilight. Pulled into a world of dark magic and suffocating pleasure, Elyse finds her...

"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it.” —Stephen King Noah Turner sees monsters. His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates. His practical mother has...

What’s not to love when a quartet of cousins visit their wacky uncle’s private island, complete with a horror-themed amusement park, on Halloween? The attraction is closed to the public for the night, too, so they have it all to themselves! No crowds! No lines! No waiting! A personal tour guide to take them around from attraction to attraction!

He would claim her body to save his own soul. Selene is a scholar, driven to uncover the secrets of the past. Her search leads her to forbidden ruins, a place strangled by sentient vines and ruled by a forgotten god. The Vinekeeper, Orin, has been alone for a thousand years, a wounded monster bound to his dying temple. When Selene awakens him, he sees not an intruder, but his salvation. He needs her life force, her pleasure, her submission. He will have her, on his altar, in his arms. He will fill her with his seed and call her his holy whore, his queen. And Selene, his captive, finds ...

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 ...

“A real page turner. Every time I thought I had it figured out, the plot twisted into a different shape. Thoroughly enjoyable, delightfully grotesque, and an absolutely satisfying read.” —T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author of What Feasts at Night Drawing on the creatures and...

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, ...

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.