Scary Animals

After Quentin's bike breaks down in a strange town, he and his friend become surrounded by feral cats.

The New York Times bestselling series! The first book in L.J. Smith’s New York Times bestselling Vampire Diaries series, the basis of the hit CW TV show starring Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder. Elena Gilbert is a high school golden girl, used to getting what she wants. And who...

Briar Hollow has kept a bloody secret hidden deep within the Appalachian mountains for eleven years. Deputy Rebecca Slade never believed the local legends until a routine call on a rainswept mountain road brings her face to face with an impossible nightmare. A violent entity is slaughtering residents under the cover of darkness, and the local police force is entirely unequipped to stop it. Peter Rusk knows exactly what is hunting the citizens of his isolated community. He carries the same violent genetic curse in his veins, relying on iron chains and sheer willpower to lock himself away ...

This audio program includes an exclusive Q&A between the author and narrator. Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chillingly beautiful mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a desperate town from the savagery within. Ava Bonney is a...

In the autumn of 1967, five heavily armed men ventured into the dense, fog-choked forests of Northern California. They thought they were hunting a legend. They were wrong. The peaceful giant they sought wasn't a discovery—it was a decoy. When the tracking expedition is ambushed in the remote wilderness, the hunters quickly realize they have stepped into a highly evolved trap. Stalked by an intelligent, hyper-violent apex predator that uses the famous myth as camouflage, the group is systematically torn apart. To survive the suffocating silence of the ancient redwoods, they must fight ...

New York Times bestselling series This special paperback bind-up contains The Fury and Dark Reunion, the third and fourth books in L J. Smith’s New York Times bestselling series The Vampire Diaries. Elena Gilbert has risen from the dead as a powerful vampire. But she still finds herself caught...

We have never left the food chain. Civilization is a comfortable illusion. We build fences, pave roads, and pass laws, convincing ourselves that we have conquered the untamed world. We believe that a locked door, a steel enclosure, or a tourist trail offers guaranteed security from the terrifying forces that once hunted us in the dark. We are dangerously wrong. This gripping, meticulously researched investigation exposes the terrifying moments when the illusion of human dominance shatters. These are not simple accidents. These are brutal, documented accounts of instinct taking over, ...

Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon's sanity:"Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours...

The second book in the New York Times bestselling series by L.J. Smith. This special paperback TV tie-in edition of the second book in L.J. Smith’s New York Times bestselling The Vampire Diaries series features cover artwork from the hit CW TV show based on the book, starring Nina Dobrev, Paul...

The space between the human world and the wild has collapsed. This gripping non-fiction collection chronicles the terrifying, true accounts of when the ancient covenant is broken and predators begin to hunt people. Spanning the continent of Africa, from the outskirts of Nairobi to the remote highlands of Ethiopia and the crowded IDP camps of Tigray , this book details a chilling new war. Read the harrowing stories of: A university student killed just yards from his campus in Kenya . The terrifying rampage of rabid "Terror Beasts" in Malawi, leaving dozens dead or maimed. Dedicated mothers ...

Seven days of total disconnection. No phones. No roads. No escape. Marcus Cole traveled to a remote mountain retreat to escape the noise of his demanding life. The property promised absolute quiet and complete isolation. But the dense woods are keeping a dark secret, and the quiet isn't peaceful—it's predatory. When the camp's caretaker is found violently broken among the pines, Marcus and the remaining guests realize they are trapped twenty-two miles from civilization. The supply boat isn't returning for days. Their emergency radio is destroyed. And the massive tracks circling their ...

A weekend getaway was supposed to mend a fractured family. Instead, it woke a forty-year-old curse. Former search-and-rescue diver Owen Rourke just wants to reconnect with his grieving teenage daughter, Sadie, at their old vacation cabin. But when a violent summer storm traps them on the water alongside a hundred panic-stricken tourists, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. Something massive, intelligent, and relentlessly hungry is hunting the crowded shallows—attacking boats from below and tearing through steel like paper. To survive a night of claustrophobic terror, Owen...

Things can never be the same again. The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, have returned to the county after a long journey and a hard battle. But their troubles are far from over. Their home has been over-run by enemy soldiers. The Spook's house is in ruins, the boggart protecting it has...

Beneath the inky black surface of Lake Ness lurks something too monstrous for this world... Gerry Lawson, a washed-up scientist slowly recovering from a life that got out of his control, finds himself saying yes when his cousin Marnie asks him to help her and her partner Jim with an outdoor survival program for disadvantaged kids. Not quite sure what he's let himself in for, he slowly adjusts to the isolated environment of Lake Ness and the challenges of living with a bunch of often erratic and unpredictable teenagers. However, it's not long before their best-laid plans start to unravel. ...

Yellowstone was not just built on a volcano. It was built on a cage. When a massive earthquake fractures the caldera, it destroys roads, collapses bridges, and strands wildlife biologist Rourke Fenner deep in the backcountry. The tremors have also cracked open a network of ancient subterranean lava tubes and released a nightmare that has been surviving in the dark for eleven thousand years. Arctodus simus. The giant short-faced bear. Trapped in a boiling landscape of toxic steam and crumbling terrain, Rourke must lead a small group of stranded park employees and tourists to safety. They are...

Two storybook collections in one volume! Scary Storybook Collection Boo! Join in the eerie fun with all your favorite Disney characters! Have a spooky slumber party with Mickey and his friends, spend a night out in the rainy jungle with Dug, learn about the Curse of the Crow with Peter Pan, and...

Blackthorn Ridge is not on any official map. And what lives there is not in any biology textbook. Carter Digman spent eighteen months searching for a ghost. Armed with a hand-drawn map, high-tech bait stations, and a heavily armed expedition team, he ventured deep into the uncharted canopy of the Pacific Northwest. The goal was simple: prove the ultimate myth is real. But they didn't just find proof. They found an apex predator's territory. And they made the fatal mistake of drawing first blood. When the team's heavy steel cables severely injure a juvenile, the expedition transforms from a ...

The cage doors are open. The power is out. The apex predators are free. Deep inside the hermetic borders of Songho, a marvel of modern engineering has just been unveiled. It was supposed to be a propaganda victory. It was designed to show the world the regime’s power. Dr. Yuna Park knows the truth. The enclosures are too small. The security is all theater. And the storm battering the perimeter is about to expose every flaw in the system. When the grid fails, the magnetic locks disengage. In the darkness, the facility transforms from a monument of national pride into a slaughterhouse. ...

A quiet mountain town. A final night of movies. An unstoppable force emerging from the dark. The Pine Ridge Drive-In is closing its gates forever, and manager Emma Reeves has planned the ultimate all-night movie marathon to send it off. The lot is packed. The projector is humming. The crowd is ready for a scare. But the real terror isn't on the screen. Deep within the dense forest bordering the lot, a legendary apex predator has been pushed to the brink by decades of corporate greed and environmental destruction. Tonight, it is reclaiming its territory—and it will tear through steel, ...

Description In the Florida swamps, the food chain has just been rewritten. When a routine patrol in the Ten Thousand Islands uncovers a destroyed boat and a missing team, former Deputy Elena Cruz knows this is no ordinary poaching incident. The tracks are too deep, the violence too precise, and the silence of the mangroves too heavy. Teaming up with a disgraced scientist and a journalist chasing a ghost story, Elena heads into the teeth of a Category Two hurricane to find the truth. But the storm isn't the only thing hunting them. Deep in the flooded limestone caverns, a relic of the Cold ...