Monster House

Sergeant Jax Moretti and his partner, Detective Juliette Reid, are hunting a sadistic serial killer and rapist who has been stalking the streets of the Polk County area for nearly a decade. With little-to-no evidence, Moretti and Reid are desperate to find this sick and twisted monster as the body count rises. And Jax soon finds himself falling for Ali Knox, the woman who may hold the answers they’ve been searching for. When Ali Knox submits her DNA to a DNA database, she was merely searching for someone from her past.

On a snowy winter evening in 1982, 21-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and raped. Mary survived, but her predator's violence had only just begun. After 10 years in prison, Tom Luther was released a far more vicious criminal. Soon, from the Rockies to West Virginia, like Ted Bundy, Luther enticed a chain of women into his murderous trap.

Modern-day 2019 took place through dreams, visions, and some real events. I would find out later that many events had already happened many decades before. This story is about a little girl named Rosie who lived in a house that, in its day and time, used to belong to a secret society that had many dark secrets. Little Rosie lived in hidden rooms in the walls, and if she was ever seen, she could be killed.

The main character is a virtual game developer, who forces his way into the game. His character is a beetle who has lost his memory and doesn't consider himself a monster. He begins to upgrade his skills and get different achievements. He's trying to get to the truth as he pieces together shards of his memories, which he can't completely trust. As his intelligence grows, his memories are coming back. The realm he falls into is an underground world, which consists of 10 levels, with different caves, tunnels, and monsters.

31 Brand-New Dark Fantasy Horror Stories. Bloody corridors of ancient rock. A castle surrounded by poisonous thorns. A lost temple of traps and corpses. A subaqueous cave at the bottom of a cursed lake. These are the places where secrets are buried, where ancient evils are summoned, where beasts are imprisoned, where the insane lie in wait. These are tombs of darkness and nightmare, where if you stare into the abyss, the abyss will stare back. Heed the warnings of your elders and return from whence you came. Ahead lie monster lairs.

Meet Monster. Meet Judy. Two humans who don't like each other much, but together must fight dragons, fire-breathing felines, trolls, Inuit walrus dogs, and a crazy cat lady - for the future of the universe.

Told in her own words, this is the story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Charlize Theron in the film Monster. There have been few female serial killers, but Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002, was a remarkable example of this rare breed of death row inmate. All too often, female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - Wuornos’ killings were the inverse of this pattern.

A man becomes targeted by witches after he inherits some very special real estate.

It's Peretti's ultimate monster story. And this time, the monster is real. Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwestern woods. They're surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness. But something - or someone - begins closing in on them. Something no human has ever seen. And it's killing everyone in its path without remorse.

Wer schuldig ist, entkommt nicht – der 11. Fall für Bodenstein und Kirchhoff als ungekürzte Lesung Im Feld wird die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens gefunden. Die 16-Jährige Larissa wurde erdrosselt. Durch eine DNA-Analyse gerät ein abgelehnter afghanischer Asylbewerber, der erst zu einer...

Behind ordinary doors, some of the darkest crimes in modern history were hidden from the world. Serial Kills Horrors examines ten real cases where homes, basements, crawl spaces, bunkers, and hidden rooms became scenes of captivity, torture, murder, and unimaginable fear. From the Philadelphia basement of Gary Heidnik to the Cleveland captivity case of Ariel Castro, from Josef Fritzl’s hidden cellar in Austria to the nightmare crimes of Fred and Rose West, this book takes listeners inside the cases that shocked investigators, horrified the public, and exposed how evil can hide in plain sight.

Revenge. It's all I've lived for. Revenge against those who stacked the cards against me from the start. But I'm changing the deck now. I'm getting even. Born to a vampire, I wasn't supposed to survive - but I did. My name is Cassidy. Cassidy Edwards. And I'm the first of my kind. The job: Trapping a 16th-century Scottish Highlander of a vampire who just might be seduction itself. The team: A firedrake with an attitude, a werewolf with a problem, and an imp in dire need of rehab.

Penny Hope used to be brave, but that was before she met the Fear Maker. Years later, he still haunts her nightmares―a tall, thin man with red eyes, in a haunted house in the woods, who devours human souls and leaves their eyes hollow and empty. Penny’s beloved grandma tells her to write down these nightmares as poems in her notebook. But then Penny starts seeing blank-eyed people in the waking world, too. She’s the only one who notices.

Step into Starling House, if you dare . . . Alix E. Harrow reimagines Beauty and the Beast in this gorgeously modern Gothic fantasy, perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Naomi Novik. Opal is a lot of things – orphan, high-school dropout, full-time cynic. Most of all, she’s determined to find...

John Coal is the town oddball. Old, crotchety, pungent, and solitary, he lives in a house just as run-down as he. The neighborhood kids take great delight in plaguing him morning, noon, and night, but they’ve chosen the wrong old coot to trifle with this time. He knows where the bodies are buried. He’s been to the outer limits. He is the keeper of dark secrets. Murders, monsters, demons, and vampires: He has seen them all and lived to tell the tale.

Howl’s Moving Castle meets Dungeons & Dragons in this debut cozy illustrated middle grade fantasy adventure that follows an unlikely heroine who rallies a ragtag team to face a dark wizard, uncovering her own magic along the way. Peri has been waiting for her magic to show up, but there’s...

My name is Friday St. Salvatore and I’m what’s known as a living vampire. But just means I haven’t died yet. Once that happens...I become the real deal. Except, I’m not really sure if being undead is what I want. I like being human. Or well, humanish. Unfortunately for me, I was just kidnapped by hunters who are hell bent on playing their sick death games. Me and all the other supernaturals they gathered are just the newest trophy’s they plan to hunt - and kill - for sport. The only way out of here? To escape.

Millennial author, Helena Zikova, tells the relatable story about how she, as a young professional, climbed the corporate ladder in a workplace designed and dominated by another generation. Through dialogue and humor, Dear Monsters provides you with insightful leadership lessons—helping you to fast-track your career in the new age.

Maxwell Pidgeon thinks monsters only exist in nightmares. Then he's invited to join the Nightmare League - a top-secret organisation that protects the world from the creatures lurking in the dark. As an agent-in-training, Max must prove he has what it takes to keep the monsters at bay. There's...

Amateur sleuth Geneva Pomolo and her assistant, Iris Reeves, are on a quest to visit every major tourist attraction in Northern Indiana. Their efforts lead them to the town museum, where a meeting of the Cryptid and Paranormal Society dissolves into chaos over disputed sightings of the Wrangler’s Devil. Howard “Hefty” Gulch advocates putting a team together to find the beast, but is shouted down by opponents who feel he’s meddling in things best left alone. When Hefty is found dead on the slopes of a cliff during a routine camping trip, Geneva is certain of foul play.