Monster Horror

THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WATER. . . After his brother's mysterious disappearance, Patrick Russell is told it was a routine drowning. But he feels something much more terrifying is at work. A BEAST WITH A LUST FOR KILLING . . . He believes that a rogue creature has risen from the depths and is terrorizing the local beach community. In order to protect the tourist dollars flooding in, the city's politicians and business leaders are unwilling to acknowledge the creature's existence; leaving Patrick as the sole voice of reason as the bodies pile up. ONLY ONE MAN CAN STOP IT . . . Risking his ...

She hunts cryptids for a living. But this time, the monster might be one of her own. When Lux Branson is called to the Louisiana bayou to investigate a string of brutal attacks, she expects gators, folklore, or maybe a rogue bear. What she finds is something far worse—witnesses who speak of a creature with glowing eyes, claws like knives, and a howl that chills the soul. Locals call it the Rougarou. Lux calls it a nightmare come to life. But this mission is more than just another hunt. As she digs deeper, she uncovers a dark family secret and a personal connection that threatens to ...

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence.

One forest, one predator and one fight for survival. Sheriff Boone Calder thought he’d seen it all in Kittrick County. But the Redwater State Forest hides a nightmare: a hiker gone missing, an ancient oak shredded by claws, and human blood smeared across the bark. The authorities call it a bear attack. Boone knows better. The tracks are huge. The kills are intelligent. Alongside grizzled tracker Vernon Pike, he discovers the truth: the Dogman is real. When it starts invading homes and turning cabins into slaughterhouses, survival becomes a desperate fight.

BLACK ATLAS #1 Over 200 reader ratings • 4.2 stars At the top of the world, the rules break. Evolutionary biology professor Zack Hitchens climbs Mount Everest to honor his late wife’s dream: one last expedition to make peace with what he lost. But above the death zone, where oxygen is thin and judgment fails, something begins stalking the mountain… and it isn’t human. A team disappears. The official explanation is predictable: exposure, altitude, bad decisions in bad weather. Then Zack finds the evidence that shouldn’t exist -- signs of a predator built for ice and darkness, ...

In 1865, the American frontier was dark and foreboding. Settlers and pioneers faced danger at every turn, some vanishing without a trace. It took a special breed to tame this land and face the threats that lurked just outside the firelight. The U.S Marshals dispatched a special team of deputies for this task. Declan Caine and his Nightmare Hunters were sent to bring down the deadliest creatures that stalked the land. Creatures that most people refuse to believe exist. A mysterious rider arrives at the home of Declan Caine with an urgent message to report immediately to the local garrison. ...

Crawlerz: All the books from the best selling series. Seven books (Over 2,500 pages). One ancient evil. A family holding on as the world falls apart. It started with a viral livestream. Archaeologists opened a mysterious tomb on camera and triggered something no one understood. What escaped wasn't gold or ancient secrets. It was a contagion that rewrote the rules of nature. At first it was subtle. A few strange behaviors. A little violence. Then the infection spread. Cities collapsed. People changed. They didn’t die. They evolved. Twisted, crawling, climbing, watching. Smarter than anyone...

New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during WWII included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju? This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the “unreality” of war itself. Each story—and two poems—feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history.

A fun-filled weekend of camping, hiking, and searching for a lost gold mine turns into a nightmare for five friends when they stumble upon an ancient evil hidden away for centuries in the snow-covered mountains of the Rockies. Michelle Evers has since put the event behind her and moved on to a new life in a new town. She has made friends and enjoys an exciting job as a Sheriff's deputy in the resort town of Hawthorn Lake. But just as she begins to settle in, mysterious events that eerily resemble her past experiences start to unfold. Michelle soon discovers that the sheriff and his close ...

Bane County is an Ongoing Saga . . . Mystery, Suspense, an edge-of-your-seat Thriller with characters you’ll fall in love with. An old-school, heart-pounding, coming-of-age Horror series with 1,000s of 5-Star Reviews. The large river-island of Bane County has a troubled past; but some histories are eagerly forgotten, especially those written in blood. Nestled into the foothills of the National Wildlife Refuge, the small rural town of Silver Canyon seems idyllic to most; but a long-slumbering evil is about to reawaken. Seventeen-year-old Bryce McNeel is your average teenage boy, living on ...

It's Peretti's ultimate monster story. And this time, the monster is real. Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwestern woods. They're surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness. But something - or someone - begins closing in on them. Something no human has ever seen. And it's killing everyone in its path without remorse.

A peaceful apple orchard becomes a killing field when a predator emerges from the forest shadows. Beekeeper Adelaide Bunch arrives for the spring bloom only to find the irrigation lines torn apart and the workers vanishing into the trees. As the blood-soaked harvest begins, Adelaide must use her knowledge of the swarm to face a nightmare that defies nature.

Lawless, British Columbia is on edge after a powerful earthquake jolts the region, quickly followed by a string of savage animal attacks. Newly stationed to the area after her predecessor mysteriously disappears, Conservation Officer Christine Moon needs to calm the jangled nerves of the small mountain town. Awakened from ancient slumber, something stalks the swirling, grey mists that surround Lawless. A beast with a gnawing hunger that grows stronger by the minute - its only thought, to satisfy its ravenous appetite.

A brutal snowstorm traps five strangers in a remote cabin deep in the northern pines. When mutilated animals, strange symbols, and violent visions begin to surface, it becomes clear something ancient is hunting them in the dark. An emaciated figure with antlers watches from the trees—silent, calculating, and starving. As survival instincts turn to madness, the line between man and monster begins to blur. Inspired by real Native American folklore, this chilling cryptid horror thriller explores what happens when the cold sets in—and something colder follows. Wendigo: Hunger in the Pines ...

The story of Sycamore Run continues in Book 3 of the Don’t Go Outside at Night: Living Among Dogmen series. Hidden in the woods behind Sycamore Run Estate is a pack of creatures the world refuses to believe in. Dogmen. They are intelligent. Territorial. And they are deadly. The only thing keeping people alive are the rules learned the hard way. But living beside predators comes at a cost. After two years of never going outside at night and keeping the blinds down, the strain has begun to take its toll. Tess knows the only real solution is to leave. What she doesn’t know is that the ...

Strange tales, mysterious legends, and bizarre creatures lurk in the wild places of the world. This volume of short stories from the mind of D.A. Roberts will both haunt and terrify you. From the mysterious shores of Lake of the Ozarks to the rugged banks of the Niangua River to the New Mexico prairie and beyond, take these darkened pathways at your peril. You never know what might lurk in those deep shadows. Danger awaits in the darkness and follows you on silent feet, eager for the kill. From the legendary Bigfoot to the dangerous Dogman, these stories will take you on a thrill-ride of ...

The first three novels of this thrilling horror adventure series, all in one volume! Hidden in remote laboratories, groups of unscrupulous scientists defy nature, and a number of bizarre and deadly organisms are released upon an unsuspecting world. Lemuria: an artificial island off the Indian coast hides a terrible secret, and one family must do all they can to survive. Typhon: deep sea saturation divers encounter a highly destructive organism, one that can truly render humanity extinct. Irkalla: a team of cave divers uncover a deadly conspiracy deep in the Philippine jungle. Combining ...

Out in the open ocean, far beyond shipping lanes and rescue routes, something ancient is hunting again. Crandle’s Keep is a remote island refuge—quiet, isolated, and surrounded by deep, uncharted waters. For Jake Crandle, it was supposed to be a sanctuary from the past. For marine biologist Amy Caldwell, it was a temporary research stop to study warming ocean currents. For a handful of others, it was simply another waypoint at sea. None of them knew they had entered a feeding ground. When ships begin vanishing without distress calls, when steel hulls are torn open as if they were paper,...

A brimming sense of despair. A hotbed of horrific beasts. Who will survive the hellstorm? Frazier Mountain, California. Kevin Murphy can’t seem to catch a break. Fleeing to an imposing pine-forested peak after a series of Hollywood fiascos, the beaten-down writer fears the gorgeous woman on his arm won’t stick around if he doesn’t find success soon. But their idyllic cabin in the woods becomes a house of horrors when he discovers the area is secretly a haven for disturbing creatures and deadly vampires. Desperate to show he’s strong, Kevin and his girlfriend rush to assemble a ...

Shortcut Through The Forest is a tale of the classical werewolf: a bloodthirsty, murderous creature whose sole purpose is hunting and killing people. At the top of the list of bad advice in history is the shortcut through the forest. We all know we shouldn’t take it, especially if we are warned about its dangers by the very person who suggested it in the first place. But Albert was in a hurry, he could handle it—except, he couldn’t. He drove his car into the shortcut, and was involved in a hit-and-run from hell—one that would haunt him every first night of the Full Moon. His dog, ...