Toro, Guillermo del

Trickster fauns, child-eating monsters, murderous soldiers, and courageous rebels with a long-lost princess seeking a reunion with her family meet and conflict in a world of magic and war, inspired by the movie "Pan's Labyrinth" by Guillermo del Toro.

"This spellbinding tale takes readers to a sinister, magical, and war-torn world filled with richly drawn characters like trickster fauns, murderous soldiers, child-eating monsters, courageous rebels, and a long-lost princess hoping to be reunited with her family"--Provided by the publisher.

Everything changes for San Bernardino teenage suburbanite Jim Sturges when a 45-year old mystery resurfaces, threatening the lives of everyone in his seemingly sleepy town. Soon Jim has to team up with a band of unlikely (and some un-human) heroes to battle the monsters he never knew existed.

Teen Jim Sturges and his best friend Tubby are drawn into a decades-old mystery surrounding missing children in his hometown. Jim joins a band of unlikely heroes to battle monsters in his town that he never knew existed, but that have come back to threaten the lives of everyone Jim holds dear.

When a plane lands at New York's JFK airport with everyone on board dead, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather of the CDC investigates what he thinks to be an outbreak of a mysterious disease but instead he finds a parasite that turns its victims into vampires. He calls upon Abraham Setrakian, a Holocaust survivor and former academic, who has seen this before, to help him before the country and then the world falls victim to the strain.

When a plane lands at New York's JFK airport with everyone on board dead, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather of the CDC investigates what he thinks to be an outbreak of a mysterious disease but instead he finds a parasite that turns its victims into vampires. He calls upon Abraham Setrakian, a Holocaust survivor and former academic, who has seen this before, to help him before the country and then the world falls victim to the strain.

Amidst a vampiric plague overtaking the globe, Old and New World vampires battle one another for an ancient text that contains the entire history of the vampires and their darkest secrets. Hoping to gain control of this book and use it against the vampires, Eph Goodweather leads a team of humans to stop the undead monsters and end their spread for good.

It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito; mute her whole life and orphaned as a child, is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn't know how she'd make it through the day. Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center's most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions; and Elisa can't keep away. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa's sole reason to live. But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to save her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming.

A ragtag network of humans--Eph, a brilliant scientist; Vasiliy Fet, an exterminator; and Gus, a former gangbanger--are determined to disrupt and destroy the vampire new world order.

When a forty-five-year-old mystery resurfaces that threatens the lives of everyone in his town, San Bernardino teenager Jim Sturges teams up with a band of unlikely heroes to battle the monsters he never knew existed.