Scary Animals

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nineteen years ago, the Blackrock backcountry claimed the life of an experienced hunter. The official report blamed a tragic accident and animal scavenging. The discovery of a single impossible footprint in a forgotten search photograph proves the coroner was wrong. Keir Hollis returns to the deep woods to retrace his father's final steps and finally lay his grief to rest. He expects to find closure in the silent forest. Instead, his small expedition uncovers a trail of mutilated wildlife and an apex predator that has claimed the drainage as its exclusive territory. Forced off the trail by ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Three centuries ago, captain Gideon Rake buried a staggering fortune on an uncharted Atlantic outpost before leaving a frantic warning about the massive beasts that forced him to flee. Now, historian Dr. Tessa Vale has decoded Rake's lost notes and led a salvage team to the exact coordinates. She hopes to document a biological impossibility and secure her academic legacy. The heavily armed rival crew tracking her wake simply wants the gold, and they are willing to slaughter anyone standing in their way. As a massive hurricane traps both teams, they are forced to navigate a labyrinth of ...

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 ...

You think you know these stories, don’t you? You are wrong. You don’t know them at all. Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that...

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...

They came to the forest to save their marriage. Now, they just need to survive the night. Mia and Ben’s relationship is hanging by a thread. In a desperate final attempt to reconnect, they travel to an isolated, off-the-grid retreat miles from civilization. But the dead silence of the trees hides a patient, calculating watcher. When their car is methodically disabled, they realize they are entirely cut off from the outside world. Then the testing begins. Footsteps on the roof. The doorknob rattling. A horrifying mimicry of human voices echoing from the dark. Something ancient and ...

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, ...

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 ...

Splash Ridge Waterpark was supposed to be the ultimate summer escape. But historic flooding has driven a massive, starving threat out of the deep woods. On opening day, a highly coordinated herd of feral hogs—led by a monstrous, three-hundred-pound alpha—breaches the park's perimeter, turning the sun-drenched concourses into a claustrophobic trap. As communications fail and the panic rises, park manager Nate Rourke and his staff must navigate a deadly labyrinth of shattered attractions and flooded maintenance tunnels to save thousands of trapped guests.

The power is out. The tracks are dead. And they are not alone. When a massive power failure paralyzes the New York transit system, MTA inspector Rina Calder and a handful of late-night commuters find themselves stranded deep beneath the city streets. But the stalled train is the least of their problems. Hidden within the abandoned infrastructure and forgotten ghost stations, a shadowy bio-corporation has successfully resurrected the ultimate apex predator. Four adult Smilodon fatalis have breached containment, and they have been conditioned to hunt by the vibration of the tracks. Armed with...

Something was buried in the ice. Now it’s awake. Cole Maddox knows the mountains. As a wilderness guide, he respects the cold, the terrain, and the storms. But he has never seen anything like the facility hidden in the deep valley of the Timberline. Hired to escort a team of investors and scientists into the frozen wild, Cole thinks it’s just another high-paying babysitting job. He’s wrong. Inside the compound, a disgraced geneticist has achieved the impossible. He hasn’t just cloned a fossil; he has resurrected an apex predator that evolution tried to erase. A hunter designed for ...