Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves the family to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. And spooky details of the history of their little cottage gradually turn Bobby into a detective of night creatures real and imagined.
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Scary Stories Pt. 1 - There are Monsters and Then There are Monsters
The Curse of the Wendigo
Y Yancey
Series: Monstrumologist Bk. 2
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh.
The Isle of Blood
Y Yancey
Series: Monstrumologist Bk. 3
When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting for the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" in 1888, twelve-year-old orphan Will Henry follows him to Socotra, plunging into depths of horror worse than anything he has experienced so far.
Jekel Loves Hyde
Y Fantask
As seventeen-year-old Jill Jekel and classmate Tristen Hyde work together on a chemistry project, hoping to win a scholarship for her and a cure for his curse, they also uncover family secrets and a chemistry of their own.
The Monstrumologist
Y Yancey
Series: Monstrumologist Bk. 1
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist (cryptozoologist) who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi. The creatures in this and the following two entries in this series are treated simply as undiscovered animals, not supernatural beings.
Rotters
Y Kraus
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he's never known, and who's the town pariah - and a grave-robber.
This Dark Endeavor
Y Oppel
Series: Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein Bk. 1
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
Under the Dome
King
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling everything within the Dome.
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Grant
Pia, bullied for being the girl whose grandmother exploded, investigates the disappearances of children in her small German town, just possibly the work of witchcraft.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Jackson
Since the mysterious death of four family members, the superstitious Merricat Blackwood, her ailing uncle Julian, and agoraphobic sister Constance have lived in a bizarre but contented state of isolation. But when cousin Charles arrives in search of the Blackwood fortune, a terrible family secret is revealed.
White Crow
Y Sedgwi
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she befriends another motherless girl and they spend the summer together exploring the village's sinister history.