monster fiction

"The Strong family is having a reunion in New Orleans, and twelve-year-old Tristan is supposed to be keeping an eye on his younger cousin Terrance when several things happen at once: he sees his archenemy, King Cotton, and a mysterious girl grabs his magic cellphone--her name is Seraphine, and she seems to know everything about Tristan and the god Anansi (currently inhabiting the cellphone), and she has a mission for Tristan, one that is going lead to a final confrontation with haint King Cotton"--OCLC.

At Villains Academy, werewolf Bram, initially unsure of his villainous abilities, embarks on a quest to prove his potential, and win the Villain of the Week trophy with the help of his newfound friends.

"Seventeen-year-old Aziza El-Amin, the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts, teams up with a cursed boy looking for answers and a young necromancer in order to eradicate a new threat in the woods and take back her hometown"--OCLC.

Fifteen years after the Vanishing thrust Manhattan into darkness, resilient New Yorkers have adapted, but at night Rei Renolds secretly hunts Deathlings--the deadly creatures that slaughtered her parents--but she soon learns of the elite who want to keep the city's ruling class in power.

"A family treks through spooky landscapes looking for a monster, only to run back home when they actually find one"--OCLC.

"It's summer vacation and Jasper the Creeper is heading to the Forest Biome with his family for a camping holiday. But Jasper is not happy. That's because he's experiencing the gut wrenching pain that comes from ... His first CRUSH! Not only that, but there is a huge monster that Jasper needs to battle in order to win the heart of the girl of his dreams"-- Back of cover.

"Living in a Regency England beset with a mist that turns humans into monsters, Merrick is summoned home from London by her sister, but her sister has secret plans that may threaten their lives, and the lives of the ruling Manor families"--OCLC.

"Lemon Ziegler wants to escape rural Devil's Elbow, Pennsylvania to attend college--but that's impossible now that she's expected to impersonate the town's lake monster for the rest of her life. Her family has been secretly keeping the tradition of Old Lucy, the famed (and very fake) monster of Lake Lokakoma, alive for generations, all to keep the tourists coming. Without Lemon, the town dies, and she can't disappoint her grandparents...or tell her best friends about any of it. That includes Troy Ramirez, who has been covertly in love with Lemon for years, afraid to ruin their friendship by confessing his feelings. When a very real, and very hungry monster is discovered in the lake, secrets must fall by the wayside. Determined to stop the monster, Lemon and her best friends are the only thing standing between Devil's Elbow and a monster out for blood"--Provided by publisher.

"The Mattigan kids are off to Las Vegas with their dad who plans to prove there are no aliens on the loose there, but the kids want to find out once and for all what's hidden in the notorious Area 51"--Amazon.

"It's winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she's sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person who can help her find them. The trouble is, Violet is being pursued at that moment by a strange hook-handed man. And the town legend of the Malamander--a part-fish, part-human monster whose egg is said to make dreams come true--is rearing its scaly head. As various townspeople, some good-hearted, some nefarious, reveal themselves to be monster hunters on the sly, can Herbert and Violet elude them and discover what happened to Violet's kin?"--Amazon.