The Bible is full of monsters: giants, vengeful spirits, and more. If you read closely, you'll see these monsters aren't God's opponents-- they are God's entourage. When we examine these strange creatures for what they are, we see how they validate the human experience, living in a world that is unpredictable, unjust, and at times monstrous.

"An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in a fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel"-- "In Daretana's grandest mansion, an Imperial officer lies dead -- killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire's borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death both terrifying and impossible....

"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...

"It is getting harder to hide the monsters in "Motel Mattigan" from their dad, but the Mattigan kids are eager to collect a new creature, but sorting out the truth will force them to look inside themselves"--

Maddie, Max, and Theo have come to the most haunted neighborhood in the most haunted city in America and they're staying in the spooky Vampire house. While their father searches for evidence to prove its blood-sucker is fake, they set out on a search of their own through a city of the dead to a crumbling voodo shack. The Mattigan kids are on the case but sometimes even the most clever plan can be a recipe for disaster.

Edward feels ready to move in with his dad's girlfriend and her son, Nathan. And Nathan is glad to have found a new guardian for Dew, the young water monster who has been Nathan's responsibility for two years. But Edward has a lot to learn about taking care of a water monster. And fast. In their search for the Modern Enemy, Nathan, Edward, Dew, and Yitoo must confront their past and their inner selves if they are to save the Fourth World from a devastating...

Annamaria and Eirini are twin sisters who disagree about everything, but when Eirini uses a spell to turn her sister's snowman into a monster the two of them have to work together to defeat the out-of-control snow monster.

With Bigfoot safely stashed in their basement, Maddie, Max, And Theo Mattigan are off to Las Vegas with their dad. His plan is to prove there are no aliens on the loose there. But now that his kids know mysterious monsters are real, they're making plans of their own. They'll need clever disguises, a well-hidden walkie-talkie--and more than a few broken eggs--to find out, once and for all, what's hidden in the notorious Area 51.

Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in--which works until a monster erupts from the trashcan.

Readers are placed in the role of a lonely newcomer who is invited to join the Horror Club of Bat Wing Hall, and a scavenger hunt reveals that fellow members are really monsters, in a spooky adventure with twenty possible endings.