Monster Horror

Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, 10-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire.

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story.

Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Monsters and The Science of Women in Horror, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast present a guide to the Stephen King stories and characters we all know and love. Through interviews, literary and film analysis, and bone-chilling discoveries, The Science of Stephen King delves into the uniquely horrific Stephen King universe to uncover the science behind the legendary novels that have become an integral part of modern pop culture.

Sometimes you go to the movies. And sometimes, the movies—and their monsters—come to you. At any moment, without notice, monsters once relegated to the screen become a reality. Aliens and demons, dragons and ghosts, werewolves, vampires, zombies, and seemingly ordinary people who are just plain evil.

Beneath the tranquil sea, terror lurks.... Its tentacles are strong enough to crush steel. Its beak can reduce a whale to mulch. It knows no fear - only fury. Now, it has risen from the abyss and seeks to feed on anything in this bright new world above. On the island of Diamond Green, it has discovered new prey.... Humans.

It’s time for Joss McMillan to prove himself as a Slayer. He failed to kill the vampire Vladimir Tod, but now he’s getting a second chance to make things right. He is in New York City, sent by the Slayer Society to hunt down a serial-killing vampire. Joss will lead his Slayer team and stop the murderer. But all is not as it appears. When the team discovers that there is more than one suspect on the killing rampage, Joss must use all his skill to save the innocent people of New York City. Joss’s status as a Slayer - and his very life - depend on it.

Ethan Pitowski is afraid of everything. Luckily, his best friends don’t mind, and when their entire class gets invited to watch a long-buried horror movie at the most popular boy in school’s house, Ethan’s friends encourage him to join in the fun. But when the “scariest movie ever made” reveals itself to be not just a movie about a monster, but a movie that is a monster, only a terrified Ethan escapes its clutches. Now he must find a way to stop the monster and save his friends (and also, um, get their heads back).

Voracious monsters threaten to consume a helpful priest. A gamer girl finds herself trapped in a digital realm of death. One widow’s worst nightmare reaches out from beyond the grave. Scare Street is proud to present the best in bone-chilling supernatural horror. This volume contains three macabre morsels for your listening pleasure. These fast-paced tales of terror are guaranteed to keep you listening well past your bedtime.

Sinister creatures ruin the holiday cheer at a snow-swept Christmas tree farm. A confrontation with a childhood bully kicks off a bloody killing spree. And a fire-crazed arsonist sets his sights on a local house, only to discover that its strange inhabitants have dark appetites of their own. Scare Street is proud to present 13 tales of supernatural horror in one volume, the perfect treat for all insatiable horror fans. From invisible killers to spectral children, a cornucopia of bone-chilling delights lurks in the darkness just waiting to be unleashed.

This collection of 18 short tales, a novelette, and a short novel takes the listener inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author of acclaimed horror classics like When Darkness Loves Us. In these stories, you will hear about a woman asked to be complicit in her own mother’s death, a grandmother with a macabre hobby, a bizarre, phallic-shaped flower that portends evil for a married couple, a father whose son is caught up in a sinister government experiment. These are weird and unsettling tales that will linger with the listener.

Nat McPherson, the sharp-witted host of Nat's Mysterious World, has faced down the likes of Yetis and Sasquatch without breaking a sweat. But when a distress call comes in from a secluded island where fishermen are being slaughtered by monstrous sea creatures, Nat realizes this isn’t just another story for her podcast—it’s a fight for survival.

My life is a giant crap pile with a cherry thrown on top. I'm an immortal woman cursed to kill people with just a glance. And now I've been kidnapped by three mouthwateringly sexy gargoyles, who I'm pretty sure want me dead. But it gets better...While I'm trying to make the best of being a prisoner, guarded by yummy eye-candy, I'm also being dragged on a dangerous mission...I think I'm not just risking my life this time, I'm risking my heart. And that's one thing that even monsters fear.

Rick Yancey won the Michael L. Printz Award for the stunning first entry in his Monstrumologist saga. In the series’ third entry, Will Henry is left behind as Dr. Warthrop and his eager new assistant Arkwright embark on a quest to find the “Holy Grail of Monstrumology.” But when Arkwright returns with news of the doctor’s demise, Will sets off on his own quest, to the Isle of Blood, to determine the truth.

Monsters and maniacs, ghosts and ghouls, brutes and beasts. In this latest volume of real-life nightmares, author John Harker presents listeners with chilling accounts of strange creatures, evil entities, and demonic deviants. Combining historical tales with modern day testimonies, Monsters and Maniacs is an enthralling, if not disturbing, look at the seen and unseen fiends in our midst.

Vinteren 1993. En ung europæer lander i New York og opsøger det legendariske performanceteater The Wooster Group i Soho for at indtage scenen og blive den ny Willem Dafoe. Hans fortid er sløret, men sammen med sit rockband har han få år inden tilsyneladende medvirket til Sovjetunionens sammenbrud. Nu er han pludselig her, har ingen penge og intet sted at bo. Alt, hvad han har, er en liste med telefonnumre og adresser, nogen har givet ham. Han ringer på et tilfældigt sted og bliver lukket ind i et velourbeklædt parallelunivers af et sært blonderet væsen i silkepyjamas.

Owen Pitt liebt seinen Job. Denn was könnte schöner sein, als sich tagtäglich mit Vampiren, Werwölfen oder alten Göttern anzulegen? Leider gehört es in diesem Berufsfeld auch zum guten Ton, sich stets neue und übermächtige Feinde anzuschaffen. Diesmal bekommt es Owen mit einem Totenkult zu tun, der von einem fanatischen Nekromanten angeführt wird. Und der hat es ganz speziell auf Owen abgesehen.

For as long as she can remember, Sara Hansen dreamed of living in paradise. Sinking her family’s savings into the Pirate Cove resort, Sara and her husband relocate to the beautiful island of Sainte Isabel. But shadows cloud the island’s pristine shores. And Sara quickly finds herself plunged into a legacy of evil and bloodshed. A legend of a sinister death ship with a brutal captain - and an unholy fleet of ghostly pirate vessels - plague the tropical island.

American History lecturer Paul Mahan was looking for a little peace and quiet. A place to recover from his personal demons and pursue his academic career. But when he moves into the newly refurbished Rookwood Apartments, he soon finds himself trapped in a living nightmare. Deep beneath the old apartment building, the stones of its foundation have been infused with decades of pain and bloodshed. A dark legacy hangs over Rookwood...a curse Paul cannot escape, no matter how hard he tries.

The island of Sainte Isabel seems like a tropical paradise. But Sara Hansen sees a different side to her beautiful home. A sinister legacy of bloodshed and death haunts the crystal blue shores. And her husband is still missing...swept away by the spectral vessel known as the Devil Ship. Struggling to keep her dive resort in business, Sara has no time to mourn her loss. But as she tries to put the past behind her, she finds herself plagued by terrible nightmares. Visions of drowned sailors and rotting corpses haunt her waking hours. And a sinister voice calls to her from the sea....

Agent Franks ist etwas ganz Besonderes. Zusammengesetzt aus verschiedenen menschlichen Teilen und versehen mit unmenschlichen Kräften, gehört er zu den effektivsten Waffen, die Monster Hunter International zu bieten hat. Doch nur unter einer Bedingung stellt er seine durchschlagenden Fähigkeiten der Organisation zur Verfügung: Sie musste ihm versprechen, keine weiteren Wesen wie ihn zu erschaffen. Franks Schöpfer ist jedoch unersättlich.