Books like 'Creatures: The Legend of Frankenstein'
Readers who enjoyed Creatures: The Legend of Frankenstein by David Thomas Moore, Emma Newman, Tade Thompson, Rose Biggin, Paul Meloy & Kaaron Warren also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The End by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe end is coming.The sickness struck everyone sixteen and older. First it twisted their minds; next it ravaged their bodies. Now the sickos—crazed and hungry for young flesh—are gathered in the center of London, lying in wait.It’s time for all of the survivors—kids spread out across the city—to unite... -
![The Night Crossing by Robert Masello]()
The Night Crossing by Robert Masello
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula. It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power…or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city... -
![The Haar by David Sodergren]()
The Haar by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“I don’t fear death... but they do.”Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. She was born there, and she intends to die there.But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lost… until the day a mysterious fog bank creeps inland... -
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The Dark by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the twisted imagination of New York Times and #1 Audible bestselling author, Jeremy Robinson, comes a horrifying revelation about the centuries old Three Days of Darkness prophecy, during which the legions of Hell will be unleashed on the Earth. The Dark is a mind-bending and character driven sci-fi-infused horror novel like no other... -
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![Counteraction by M.D. Massey]()
Counteraction by M.D. Massey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a hunter in post-apocalyptic central Texas, Scratch Sullivan has survived zombies, vampires, rogue militia units - heck, he even killed a werewolf with nothing more than a spear and a bad attitude. But what's a man to do when the local werewolf pack destroys his town and abducts his best girl? If you're Scratch Sullivan, you get spittin' mad - and then you get retribution... -
![The Raven: Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Raven: Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro The Raven: Tales and Poems is a landmark new anthology of Poe's work, which defied convention, shocked readers, and confounded critics. This selection of Poe's writings demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind... -
![The Five Pillars by Adrian J. Smith, Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
The Five Pillars by Adrian J. Smith, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan anything or anyone stop the evil? Lost. Trapped. Chased by monsters and sent on a crazy mission. Not exactly what Jack Gee had in mind when he used to daydream about the apocalypse. Seven months after the Hemorrhage Virus swept across the world Jack, his wife Dee, friend Boss and the Renegades, a ragtag collection of civilian and military personnel, have been sent on two missions... -
![Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson]()
Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWASHINGTON D.C. HAS BEEN DESTROYED In the wake of a Kaiju assault that left the nation’s capital in ruins, Jon Hudson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal, is preparing his team for an uncertain future... -
![Insidious Monsters by Debbie Cassidy]()
Insidious Monsters by Debbie Cassidy
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNever fall for the monster inside you.Telarion and I have an understanding:*Never talk about our emotions.*Never express our feelings to each other.*Never spend the evenings together.Luckily, catching eldritch is time consuming and exhausting work... -
![Apocalypse Machine by Jeremy Robinson]()
Apocalypse Machine by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE HUMAN RACE STARTED THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION ON EARTH. A chain of subglacial volcanoes erupt in Iceland. The melting ice floods the countryside. Poisonous gas descends on Scotland. A tsunami devastates the Norwegian coastline. An ash cloud rises into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun across Europe, ushering in a new Ice Age... -
![Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson, Jeffrey Kafer]()
Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson, Jeffrey Kafer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBOSTON IS IN RUINSJon Hudson, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal division, is haunted by Boston’s destruction at the hands of Nemesis, a three-hundred-foot tall monster with the heart of a murdered little girl, Maigo. In the time since Boston fell and Nemesis retreated to the ocean’s depths, Hudson has helped prepare the United States against future attacks... -
![I Am Legend by Richard Matheson]()
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsWinner of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award for best vampire novel of the century: the genre-defining classic of horror sci-fi that inspired three films. The population of the entire world has been obliterated by a pandemic of vampire bacteria. Yet somehow, Robert Neville survived... -
![The Divide by Jeremy Robinson]()
The Divide by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA wildly exciting journey through a world remade, THE DIVIDE combines real characters with horrifically realized creations, pitting the worst of human nature against the strength of family. Equal parts action, horror, and moving drama that only Jeremy Robinson can pull off.WHEN THE DIVIDE IS CROSSED...No one remembers how the Divide was created... -
![Kept From the Deep by Octavia Kore]()
Kept From the Deep by Octavia Kore
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA forgotten past, a tormented present, and a future in jeopardy. She’s been abducted from Earth, experimented on in the Grutex labs, and thrown into the path of not just one massive alien mate, but two. As a Filipina nurse living in America, she isn’t a stranger to adapting to unusual situations, but nothing could have prepared her for what’s to come... -
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![Operation: Siberia by William Meikle]()
Operation: Siberia by William Meikle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a zoo in Siberia, he expects to find tigers, bears, maybe elk But there is something there that is new, yet very, very old. Beasts that haven't walked the Earth since the last Ice Age have been cloned, revived, and set loose to roam free. And some of them are very hungry...Categorized as:
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![Awakening by J.D. Demers]()
Awakening by J.D. Demers
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a contagion engulfs humanity, zombies rise to feast on the few survivors that are left. But they are not the worst monsters to come from this plague. There is hope, though. Christian Hunt is immune... -
![Ten Simple Tips for Surviving the Apocalypse by Cari Z.]()
Ten Simple Tips for Surviving the Apocalypse by Cari Z.
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDo you have what it takes to survive the apocalypse? Are you sure?Let Javi help!Ten Simple Tips For Surviving The Apocalypse is a handy guide for anyone who wants to weather the end of the world's mayhem, misery, and mutants with flair... -
![Blood is Red by Scott Sigler]()
Blood is Red by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA collection of eight horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of Infected, Contagious and Ancestor. This eBook-only title features seven tales from Scott's six years of free audiobook podcasts, including the Parsec Award-winning "Red Man," plus the brand-new novella "Hunter Hunterson & Sons... -
![The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson]()
The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle.Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson... -
![Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King]()
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRemember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination... -
![The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson]()
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 28 ratings&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr... -
![Stung by Bethany Wiggins]()
Stung by Bethany Wiggins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere is no cure for being stung.Fiona doesn’t remember going to sleep. But when she awakens, her world no longer exists. Her house is abandoned and broken. Her neighborhood is barren and dead. And there is a tattoo on her right hand. A tattoo Fiona doesn’t remember getting…but somehow she must conceal at any cost. Because humanity has been divided... -
![Blood Crazy by Simon Clark]()
Blood Crazy by Simon Clark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSaturday is a normal day. People go shopping. To the movies. Everything is just as it should be. But not for long. By Sunday, civilization is in ruins. Adults have become murderously insane. One by one they become infected with a crazed, uncontrollable urge to slaughter the youngeven their own children. Especially their own children... -
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![Hellmouth by Giles Kristian]()
Hellmouth by Giles Kristian
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBohemia. 1370. A lost soul named Galien leads a band of hardened mercenaries on a mission for Mother Church. But in the dark forests of central Europe, a darker secret awaits. Bestselling author Giles Kristian (Lancelot, The Raven Viking Trilogy) takes us on an unnerving ride into fear and paranoia, bloodshed and redemption... -
![Righteous Monsters by Debbie Cassidy]()
Righteous Monsters by Debbie Cassidy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBe careful what you wish for.At the start Telarion and I had one goal—to find a way to be separated.Then feelings changed and so did our goal. To find a way to be separated so we could know if what we felt was real.But just when we allow ourselves a taste of what we truly desire, our world is turned upside and our connection is put to the test.The order of Yaga have a plan... -
![Ancient Monsters by Debbie Cassidy]()
Ancient Monsters by Debbie Cassidy
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo one claims what's mine.I've been fighting for as long as I can remember.For myself.For my friends and family.Now it's time to fight for him... -
![Within the Woods by Tony Urban, Thomas Rode]()
Within the Woods by Tony Urban, Thomas Rode
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon't go in the woods... For 12-year-old Garrett and his four best friends, the idyllic summer of 1989 crashes to a halt when Garrett's older brother vanishes. Something is very wrong in Sallow Creek, Pennsylvania. Something is turning their neighbors, their relatives, into unstoppable monstrosities... Monsters that are coming for the them... -
![Descent by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Descent by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead will rise and the living will fall. The zombies have trapped them. Just a small band of survivors, alone in a building surrounded by hordes.Ken's family is shattered. His wife doesn't trust him. His son is gone. And his daughters... are changing.The survivors want to fight. To live. But some of them will not survive. Some will die - or worse. And the rest will find that the only way out... -
![Prankster: An AFK Book by Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper]()
Prankster: An AFK Book by Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night...From twisted toys to gut-wrenching games, this collection of terrifying tales is unsettling enough to mess with even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans... -
![Impact Winter by Travis Beacham]()
Impact Winter by Travis Beacham
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting."From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun... -
![Into the Dread Void by Abe Moss]()
Into the Dread Void by Abe Moss
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter landing the foster family of her dreams, fourteen-year-old Nell Parrish looks forward to spending their first weekend together at their lakeside cabin. The promise of a new start. A new life. A better life.But nothing will prepare Nell for the nightmare that awaits them there, or the many haunting revelations following fast on its heels... -
![Cherokee Sabre by Jamison Roberts]()
Cherokee Sabre by Jamison Roberts
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if a legend you'd grown up hearing turned out not only to be true, but much older than you could have imagined?Professor of Archaeology, Theodore Stone encounters this problem first hand in Cherokee Sabre, a creature feature thriller containing an adaptation of a Cherokee legend. The Wampus Cat... -
![Undead Folk by Katherine Silva]()
Undead Folk by Katherine Silva
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeyond the smoke-choked skies of an apocalyptic United States, a woman travels the desolate railroad tracks of a small town in search of revenge and a quiet place to settle. Her only companion is an undead fox: animated with backwoods herbal magic and the soul of a middle-aged father who died before the world fell into darkness... -
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![Bumper Crop by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Bumper Crop by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoe R. Lansdale compiles and introduces 26 of his own favorite and most violent dark horror tales in this review of his work. "God of the Razor" introduces the dark god behind serial killers. A martial arts fight to the death between a reluctant champion and a sadistic alpha male is featured in "Master of Misery... -
![The In-Betweener by Ann Christy]()
The In-Betweener by Ann Christy
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEmily is alone. Two years after the end of the world, she talks to herself and smashes heads with her favorite sledgehammer. This is not the life she imagined for herself as her eighteenth birthday rolls past.It’s time for her to look beyond her safe, little hiding place to the world beyond... -
![The Hunted by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan]()
The Hunted by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTheir radio is sabotaged. The wolves are gathering outside. And for the increasingly desperate mercenaries, the worst is yet to come in part three of The Boy in the Iron Box: the box is empty.In the wake of an inexplicable disappearance, Liev and his men use their tactical skills to last the night—by going hunting... -
![Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization by Greg Keyes, Ната Гриценко]()
Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization by Greg Keyes, Ната Гриценко
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe official novelization of the summer blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters , the latest film in the MonsterVerseTM franchise, starring Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, with Ken Watanabe and Ziyi Zhang... -
![Tar by Iain Rob Wright, Kevin J. Kennedy]()
Tar by Iain Rob Wright, Kevin J. Kennedy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow do you go on living when tomorrow isn't coming? The world has ended, yet few places still cling to life, dragging out their final moments until the last dwindling seconds. The United Kingdom is one such place, but it is only a matter of time before it too is wiped from the face of the earth. The Tar is coming... That means the clock is ticking for ex Irish Separatist Finley... -
![What Lurks Below by Donald Firesmith]()
What Lurks Below by Donald Firesmith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings[]It’s August in Alaska, and geology professor Jack Oswald prepares for the new school year. But when hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appear overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, Jack receives an unexpected phone call. An oil company exec hires Jack to investigate, and he picks his climatologist wife and two of their graduate students as his team... -
![Monster by Soren Summers]()
Monster by Soren Summers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBloodied corridors. Mangled bodies. Deranged test subjects. Just another day at Vertex, a corporation devoted to perfecting humanity by any means necessary. It's up to Jarod Samuels to keep the hallways pristine and safe, but scrubbing bloodstains and bagging bodies is losing its luster. Then someone new joins his department, this man with a huge ego and an even huger mouth... -
![Highway Bodies by Alison Evans]()
Highway Bodies by Alison Evans
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse?*Bodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. No access to social media. And a dad who’ll suddenly bite your head off – literally. These teens have to learn a new resilience…Members of a band wield weapons instead of instruments.A pair of siblings find there’s only so much you can joke about, when the menace is this strong... -
![Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing alive just means you have more to lose. The zombies are changing. Growing faster. Stronger. Smarter. Working together to destroy all of humanity.Ken Strickland has found his family. But finding something and keeping it are two very different things.The survivors are bruised. They are broken. And they are about to find out that the worst monsters are among those they count as their friends... -
![Jurassic Florida by Hunter Shea]()
Jurassic Florida by Hunter Shea
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFLORIDA. IT’S WHERE YOU GO TO DIE. Welcome to Polo Springs, a sleepy little town on Florida’s Gulf Coast. It’s a great place to live—if you don’t mind the hurricanes. Or the flooding. Or the unusual wildlife . . . IGUANAS. THEY’RE EVERYWHERE. Maybe it’s the weather. But the whole town is overrun with the little green bastards this year. They’re causing a lot of damage... -
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![Bats by William W. Johnstone]()
Bats by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA frightening tale about a swarm of vampire bats that have developed a taste for human blood--from bestselling author Johnstone (Watchers in the Woods). The great black cloud of terror appeared one evening in the southern U.S. --first hundreds and then thousands. No one knows how to stop the deadly shadows, but someone has to find a way... -
![All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz]()
All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren’t sure we can trust... -
![Contagion by Erin Bowman]()
Contagion by Erin Bowman
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt got in usAfter receiving an urgent SOS from a work detail on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is dispatched to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission.Most are dead.But when the crew arrives, they find an abandoned site, littered with rotten food, discarded weapons...and dead bodies.Don't set foot here again... -
![The Revenant's Heart: a Monster Romance by Skyla Gray]()
The Revenant's Heart: a Monster Romance by Skyla Gray
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan a dead heart learn to beat again? After dropping out of med school, Lucy Sullivan thought her skill with a scalpel would only be useful for her hobbyist taxidermy. But life takes another unexpected turn when she becomes the doctor for a most unusual one who’s already dead. Or undead, rather...Categorized as:
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![The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce]()
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsAeriel is kidnapped by the darkangel, a black-winged vampyre of astounding beauty and youth. In his castle keep, she serves his 13 wives, wraiths whose souls he stole. She must kill him before his next marriage and comes into full power, but is captivated by his magnificent beauty and inner spark of goodness... -
![Overtime by Charles Stross]()
Overtime by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIntroduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race...
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