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Monsters have become one of the great guilty pleasures of our age. From the zombies of The Walking Dead to the werewolves of Teen Wolf, from the vampires of The Strain to the wide assortment of creatures in Penny Dreadful, they are everywhere in mass media. Here, for your guilty reading pleasure, are 22 more tales of monsters, by some of the greatest writers ever to set typewriter to paper! Included are: AFTER I STOPPED SCREAMING, by Pamela Sargent THE...

After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson-a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any "normal" friends. But things don't stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical...

The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.

Hank the Cowdog and Deputy Drover investigate a monster that appears just as they are about to arrest Eddy the Rac for ripping one of Sally May's sheets while it hangs on the clothesline.

When she awakened, there was a fly buzzing about her Jell-O and the ice-cream had melted. The storm was still on, but seemed farther away - so much so that she could hear the solemn ticking of the wall-clock. And something more: a squeaking sound, like the protests of a wheelchair too long neglected. It was coming from outside her room. It was coming up the hall. She looked at the doorway. Sure enough, an old woman in a wheelchair muscled her way...

Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city.

"Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anythign before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently, he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They're all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? jason doesn't know anything - except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father,...

Will Hunter thought his life couldn't get any worse - his parents just got divorced ; his best (and only) friend now is his dog, Fitz ; and his Mom moved them from New York city to a middle-of-nowhere town called East Emerson. But Will was wrong - things are about to get way worse. Because East Emerson is filled with a whole lot of monsters that only he can see. To everyone else they look like normal people. When all the town pets (including Fritz),...

When the other children on the school bus run away, a little girl wonders if there was a monster on the bus.

A little girl wakes up to find that her house is a total mess, the kitchen raided and everything turned upside down--surely a monster has been at work.