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.

Sixteen of the world's spookiest legends, and the real folklore behind them. Where did vampires really come from? Why does the Banshee wail in the night? What is the Chupacabra, and why are farmers still afraid of it? Monsters and Myths of Halloween takes curious young readers on a tour of the creatures that have haunted bedtime stories for centuries, and reveals the myths and history that gave each one its name. Every chapter pairs a short, easy-to-read history of a famous creature with an original spine-tingling story, so kids learn where the legend comes from and then get to feel the ...

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 ...

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”.

🎃 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 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 ...

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.

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!

When the Grim Reaper develops feelings for the children’s librarian whose soul he is supposed to collect, he finds that with feelings comes something far worse than death—life. Helena Hart isn’t having the best night. Her date just ditched her, her Halloween costume bombed, and her only...

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.

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.

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 ...

He rang the bell for absolution. The frost answered instead. Graduate student Elias Greer came to a ruined mountain monastery for solitude, research, and escape from his past. But Saint Agatha’s is more than ivy and stone. It is a Veiled Place—where echoes speak truths not yet confessed, and the cold itself listens. Veyr, the frost wight of the belfry, has lingered for a century—starved for warmth, aching for devotion. His presence moves through the air like breath, his touch lingering in the frost that coils across mirrors and skin. Elias should resist. Instead, he kneels in ...

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…

☠️ 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 ...

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 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, ...

"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...