Horror Fiction Monsters

Whether serving as cautionary tales or stories that appease the listener’s thirst of the unknown, the macabre, and even the grotesque, horror fiction has been around for a long time. From stories concocted around mythical figures and legends, to those about imagined monsters under the bed and in the dark, here is a must-have edition to make your nights a little scarier.

Beelzebub, the prince of demons, is bored. It's his destiny to one day rule the dark underworld known as the Red Realm, but it's sooo boring down there. All he wants to do is lay around all day in the lava pits (ahhh), boss everyone around (rude!), and maybe play a cruel prank (or two). But Beelzebub's father has had it with his son's nasty attitude. No one backtalks the Red King. NO ONE. A disgraced Beelzebub is banished by his father and cursed to spend his days in the worst place either of them can imagine. EARTH.

Die Demeter soll eigentlich nur Passagiere nach Alpha Centauri bringen. Doch plötzlich sterben Menschen an Bord – und diesmal ist kein technischer Defekt schuld. Der berüchtigte Graf Dracula ist mit an Bord. Um nicht stillgelegt zu werden, geht die Schiffs-KI ein riskantes Bündnis ein – mit einer denkbar ungewöhnlichen Mannschaft: einem Werwolf, einer Ingenieurin aus Leichenteilen, einem uralten Pharao, einem rachsüchtigen Vampir und einer Schar fröhlicher Spinnendrohnen.

A sailor recalls the monstrous terror that lay at the bottom of the deep in this, Lovecraft’s earliest tale of unspeakable horror from outside our universe.

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.

In the backwoods of the Miskatonic River valley, an unspeakable creature seeks to come through the veil into our world.

A psychologically twisted story of the escape of a lifelong prisoner.

A student’s investigation into a secret cult leads to madness.

The day I was drafted into the army of the gods, all I knew about being a MASH surgeon was what I’d learned from Hawkeye Pierce and Hot Lips Houlihan. Now here I am, Dr. Petra Robichaud, in the middle of an immortal war, assigned to a MASH camp with a nosy sphinx, a vegetarian werewolf, and an uptight vampire who really needs to get a life. At least they’re all too busy with their own dramas to discover my secret: I can see the dead. It’s a forbidden gift, one that can get me killed, so I haven’t told a soul.

"Perfect deadpan marks the opening of Ali Simpson’s The Monster'" writes Susan Merrell of The Southampton Review in her introduction to this issue of Recommended Reading.

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien...

Leonard Leech ist der Monsterfresser. Hart, mystisch, spannend! Leonard Leech, seines Zeichens Marshal und Veteran des Bürgerkriegs verfolgt eine Bande von Outlaws in eine alte, indianische Ritualhöhle. Was im Zuge der blutigen Auseinandersetzung dort mit ihm passiert, wird ihn für immer zu einem anderem machen. Zu etwas anderem. Von einem schrecklichen Hunger getrieben und von seinen Mitmenschen entfremdet, beginnt er eine Reise ins Ungewisse. Hier finden Sie seine ersten Abenteuer.

Charlie’s life is a lonely one. While other twelve-year-olds are in school, she spends her days skinning the animals her mercurial father hunts in the woods just outside their cabin. And the woods and its twisted creatures—an owl with four wings, a boar with two heads, a fox with gills—are becoming stranger by the day.

A dreamlike tale of haunting melodies and visions of alternate worlds.

Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a 14th story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit.

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police...

Prepare to meet the wicked progeny of the master of modern horror. In Lovecraft's Monsters, H. P. Lovecraft's most famous creations--Cthulhu, Shoggoths, Deep Ones, Elder Things, Yog-Sothoth, and more--appear in all their terrifying glory. Each story is a gripping new take on a classic Lovecraftian creature. Contributors include such literary luminaries as Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Karl Edward Wagner, Elizabeth Bear, and Nick Mamatas.

The unmissable sequel to The Reluctant Vampire – the book behind the major TV series starring Lenny Rush, Sian Clifford and Tom Davis It’s a dark, stormy night in the village of Katchem-by-the-Throat. A lightning bolt strikes a lonely statue in the park … and out crawls Prince Vernon the...

The original horror story, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a classic that sparked a thousand nightmares and redefined what it means to be human. This new special edition hardcover includes sprayed edges, gorgeous endpapers, and brand-new illustrations of key moments from the book. Obsessed with...

A timeless Gothic masterpiece of creation, ambition, isolation, and consequence — presented in a pure, unabridged narration of Mary Shelley's original 1818 text. Victor Frankenstein pursues the secrets of life and succeeds in creating a living being, only to recoil from what he has made...