In this issue, you’ll find 100 pages of fascinating facts and interesting stories. Learn all about the legendary characters and creatures in ancient tales and myths— today’s superheroes have nothing on them! You’ll also find out about lots of other intriguing phenomena, such as the surprising descendants of dinosaurs, how many drops of water are in a cloud and an insect that can live 16 years without food or water. Plus, there are awesome

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Vampires! Werewolves! Aliens! As long as there have been humans, we've been sharing stories of the terrifying monsters living among us. Movies put faces to our fears, and turn these childhood legends into palpable experiences that make us sweat and shiver and scream. From dawn-of-Hollywood classics like King Kong, Dracula, and The Mummy to modern nightmare fodder like Voldemoort, Gollum, and the shrieking death angels from A Quiet Place, we'll

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Examines the existence of mythical and fictional monsters that are big and hairy, including King Kong, the Abominable Snowman, and Sasquatch.

Discusses were-creatures, monsters that change from one entity into another, such as werewolves and cat people, including some scientific explanations for these beasts.

Growing up at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, Rossamünd Bookchild–a boy with an unfortunate name–has led a life sheltered from the dangers of the world. But this all changes the day the man with the strange red-and-pale-blue eyes recruits him into the service of the Emperor. Rossamünd has been drafted into the ranks of the Half-Continent's "lamplighters"–soldiers who protect the empire's...

It's a full hour of power with the biggest and baddest in monster truck action. More crazy crack-ups, more wickes wipe outs, more crunching and crushing.

Orphan Rossamünd Bookchild has been sworn into the Emperor's service as a lamplighter—his duty to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways and protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he ever has—always too small and too meek. His loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed.
But when a haughty young girl, a member of...

"Simple text and illustrations describe Tasmanian tigers, how they lived, and how they became extinct"--Provided by publisher.

When Ethan checks under the bed for his monster, he finds a note instead: "Gone fishing. Back in a week. Gabe." What will Ethan do? He needs a monster under his bed. Other monsters appear, but none are as perfect as Gabe. How will Ethan ever get to sleep without his monster?

Accountant turned professional monster hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, managed to stop the nefarious Old One's invasion plans last year, but as a result made an enemy out of one of the most powerful beings in the universe. Now an evil death cult known as the Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition wants to capture Owen in order to gain the favor of the great Old Ones.

The Condition is led by a fanatical necromancer known as the Shadow Man. The government

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