Readers will be scared silly in this spooky and hilarious middle grade series starter about a town chock-full of monsters and the kids who must unravel centuries of secrets to save it.

Middle school is off to a depressing start for Marvin Watson, his new baby brother is proving to be a disappointment, and now his town is being threatened by a horde of mutant bugs, including a hungry spider that quotes Shakespeare--and if that is not enough there are three sarcastic man-sized moths living in the attic.

Something is wrong with twelve-year-old Zee, who has returned after a year's absence; nobody knows where he was or what happened to him, but now he is distracted and violent, freaking out when he sees his friends, Justin, Nia, and Lyric, playing an odd game of hide-and-seek, and talking wildly about some danger that is approaching--and soon his friends are pulled into a shadowy world ruled by a monstrous, shape-shifting Seeker, forced to play a terrifying...

"Conscripted into the dangerous Adventurers Guild, best friends Zed and Brock must defend what is left of humanity against terrible monsters in this epic fantasy."--

You don't stay out after dark in Beacon Point... The small town of Beacon Point has always been plagued by eerie local phenomena. It's a town where disappearances are common, strange creatures have been sighted with unnerving frequency, and a ghastly secret lurks in the woods. The adults in town are oblivious to these strange occurrences. Others prefer not to talk or even think about them. But over the course of several terrifying nights, a group...

Against his better judgment, fifth grader Griffin Birch follows his best friend down the new slide in the school playground, and at the other end of this portal they discover a cruel world populated by bloodthirsty creatures on a quest to become immortal.

"Winterbourne Hall is not safe. Clare and Dorran scramble to secure the ancient building in an effort to protect themselves from the ravenous hollow ones, but that isn't their only concern. Somewhere far away, Beth is alive, but she's trapped, and her oxygen is running out. Hundreds of kilometers separate Clare from her sister. The land between them is infested with monsters, and the roads are a maze of dead ends. She knows she can't survive the...

A PROPHECY IN MOTION. MANKIND ON ITS KNEES. CAN ONE BOY CHANGE THEIR FATE? Thirteen-year-old Toby Thornton never expected Father Christmas to break into his parents' townhouse in the dead of night, bruised, pale and on the run. After all, it was only hours ago that the old man and his elves helped him save the world from shapeshifters. But a lot can happen overnight. Thanks to a nefarious plan, their enemies have unleased Nicko's most frightening...

An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity. Continuing his interest in the history of emotion, this book explores how fear has...

A runaway working a dead-end job in Pennsylvania must fight to return home when an intense, otherworldly summer storm arrives bringing a mind-bending monster that enslaves the residents in the new novel by the author of Queen of Teeth.