Monsters have become one of the great guilty pleasures of our age. From the zombies of The Walking Dead to the werewolves of Teen Wolf, from the vampires of The Strain to the wide assortment of creatures in Penny Dreadful, they are everywhere in mass media. Here, for your guilty reading pleasure, are 22 more tales of monsters, by some of the greatest writers ever to set typewriter to paper! Included are: AFTER I STOPPED SCREAMING, by Pamela Sargent THE...

"It's the end of the world as she knows it! Thirteen-year-old Kelly Ferguson's secret life as a monster-hunting babysitter is taking a beastly turn. Now she has to go on a rescue mission to Monster Island--where monster royalty is turning kids into hairy mutant monsters! To pull it off, she'll have to face off against internet trolls, trash monsters, and her fear of screwing up--plus the biggest, baddest Boogey of all. With the fate of humanity on...

"Stopping monsters is no job for dainty Princess Magnolia. But luckily Princess Magnolia has a secret: she's also the Princess in Black, and stopping monsters is the perfect job for her. Can the princess sneak away, transform into her alter ego, and defeat the monster before the nosy duchess discovers her secret?"--Amazon.com.

A book of jokes featuring monsters, like "Why was the Abominable Snowman so popular? Because he was cool."

August Flynn is a monster who can never be human, and in Verity he has become the leader he never wished to be. Kate Harker is a girl who hunts monsters, and in Prosperity she has become a ruthless hunter. When a new monster emerges, feeding on chaos and bringing out its victim's inner demons, Kate must face a monster she thought she killed, a boy she thought she knew, and a demon all her own.

A fifth-grader uses her photographic memory, her mother, and her friend Eric to find a missing reel of a monster film they go to see.

When Finistere's stern acting principal, Ms. Vlad, invites Mr. Dragon to be her vice-principle, the students immediately adore him, but unbeknownst to them, he is nefariously planning to take over the world, and it is up to Javi to stop him before it is too late.

"After the monster apocalypse, Jack Sullivan has been having an awesome time living in a tree house with his three best friends. But when zombies start mysteriously disappearing, Jack and his friends suspect that an extremely evil force is at work"--

When the other children on the school bus run away, a little girl wonders if there was a monster on the bus.

"The last kids may have escaped the forbidden fortress by the skin of their teeth, but there isn't much to celebrate. Thrull has what he needs to complete the Tower, Rezzoch will most certainly come to Earth, and the world as they know it will cease to exist. Except Jack's Cosmic Hand is now even more powerful than he realized, and it might just be able to stop the inevitable from happening. To get the answers he seeks, he'll need to travel farther...