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The Monstrumologist

Rick Yancey · 441 pages

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

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Bonechiller

Graham McNamee · 299 pages

Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.

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The Lake of Souls

Darren Shan · 282 pages

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Don't Let the Forest In

C.G. Drews · 352 pages

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Ghoul

Brian Keene · 341 pages

No one believes Timmy when he tells them he and his friends discovered a ghoul eating the dead in a local cemetery; but when the ghoul starts attacking the living as well as the dead, Timmy realizes it's up to him and his friends to stop it.

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Trollhunters

Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus

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Twilight Eyes

Dean Koontz · 471 pages

Sought by police for murder, slim Mackenzie, a young man both blessed and cursed by "twilight eyes," stalks the diabolical "Others," who feed their twisted needs with human suffering.

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The Blob That Ate Everyone

R.L. Stine · 144 pages

A famous horror writer. That's what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He's writing a story about a giant blob monster. A pink slimy creature who eats up an entire town! Then Zackie finds the typewriter. In a burned down antique store. He takes it home and starts typing. But there's something really odd about that typewriter. Something really dangerous. Because now every scary word Zackie writes is sta

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The Beasties

William Sleator · 198 pages

When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered. In this modern horror tale, Doug and his younger sister discover a hidden tunnel where a race of weird underground people live. Fifteen-year-old Doug & his 10-year-old sister, Colette, encounter the beasties, forest-dwellin

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The Sun Dog

Stephen King · 209 pages

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The Spook's Apprentice

Joseph Delaney · 340 pages

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Hollow City

Ransom Riggs · 399 pages

In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.

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Parasyte, Volume 9

Hitoshi Iwaaki · 184 pages

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Grasshopper Jungle

Andrew Smith · 400 pages

In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend Robby have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It's the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. You know what I mean.

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Silver

Chris Wooding

When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.

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Arclight

Josin L. McQuein · 403 pages

The first person to cross the barrier that protects Arclight from the Fade, teenaged Marina has no memory when she is rescued but when one of the Fade infiltrates Arclight, she recognizes it and begins to unlock secrets she never knew she had.

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Z. Rex

Steve Cole

Jurassic Park meets virtual gaming in a blockbuster new thriller!You're 14 and find yourself on your own. Your father, who has developed the world's cutting edge research on virtual electronic game-playing, has been missing for weeks. And suddenly you're being hunted by men with guns, your picture is on the news, and, worst of all, something seemingly impossible is chasing you—a savage, man-eating

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Lamplighter

D.M. Cornish · 711 pages

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Dweller

Jeff Strand · 279 pages

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Monster War

Dean Lorey

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The Wolfen

Whitley Strieber · 252 pages

Probably one of the most terrifying books I have ever read. If you want a nighttime scare, this is the one. Don't read it alone on any dark and scary night. Loved it.

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Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna

Chris Dingess · 128 pages

In 1804, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark set out from St. Louis, Missouri with the intent of blazing a trail to the western coast of North America -- a trip that would set the foundation for the future of the United States of America. But what the history books don't tell you is the true purpose of Lewis and Clark's journey to the west ... In this imaginative retelling

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This Savage Song

Victoria Schwab · 448 pages

**KATE HARKER** wants to be as ruthless as her father. After five years and six boarding schools, she's finally going home to prove that she can be. **AUGUST FLYNN** wants to be human. But he isn't. He's a monster, one that can steal souls with a song. He's one of the three most powerful monsters in a city overrun with them. His own father's secret weapon. **THEIR CITY IS DIVIDED.** **THE

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Abomination

Gary Whitta · 341 pages

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, chaos and bloodshed swept across the remains of western civilization like a plague. Consumed by feudal warfare, Europe plunged into a centuries-long era of illiteracy and cultural desolation from which few historical records survived. Some believe that the true history of this dark age was deliberately concealed by its surviving scholars. Too incredible to be b

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