"Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters"
Quoting the incomparable Stephen King, and for those of you who like a little thrill, here's our summer reading list of our favorite monster books. These are guaranteed to make your pulse quicken and have you holding your breath until the very last page. For a thrill, we recommend any of these titles.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Yes, seriously. This would not be a real monster list if we did not start with this one.
It by Stephen King
Monster by Frank Peretti - this noted Christian author will have you up late at night desperate to finish this book. He will also leave you questioning what you know, what you think you know, and what is real or just your fear. And if you like this one, equally terrifying and fantastic to read is Peretti's The Oath.
World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war by Max Brooks
I am Legend by Steven Niles - The world's population has all but been extinct by a vampire virus. Only one man has survived. Faced with keeping himself alive, he battles vampires, the question of what caused the epidemic, and the question of what to do next pulls readers from page to page in an intellectual and heart-racing thriller.
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - still timeless in its perfect ability to truly capture fear in the heart of every audience with the unknown, Wells spins and weave a tale of the monster only your own mind can create. Without details or description, he manages to keep you on the edge of your seat page after page in this all too realistic scenario of an alien invasion.
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice
Watchers by Dean Koontz
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - Yes, this one is a
vampire book, but it is so very much more. After finding a mysterious
book in her late father's library, a young woman finds herself on a
journey to discover the truth behind what happened to her parents...a
journey that leads her through historical archives and libraries to the
truth behind the legend of Dracula...a journey both fascinating and
terrifying.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Yes, seriously. This would not be a real monster list if we did not start with this one.
It by Stephen King
Monster by Frank Peretti - this noted Christian author will have you up late at night desperate to finish this book. He will also leave you questioning what you know, what you think you know, and what is real or just your fear. And if you like this one, equally terrifying and fantastic to read is Peretti's The Oath.
World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war by Max Brooks
I am Legend by Steven Niles - The world's population has all but been extinct by a vampire virus. Only one man has survived. Faced with keeping himself alive, he battles vampires, the question of what caused the epidemic, and the question of what to do next pulls readers from page to page in an intellectual and heart-racing thriller.Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - still timeless in its perfect ability to truly capture fear in the heart of every audience with the unknown, Wells spins and weave a tale of the monster only your own mind can create. Without details or description, he manages to keep you on the edge of your seat page after page in this all too realistic scenario of an alien invasion.The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice
Watchers by Dean Koontz
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - Yes, this one is a
vampire book, but it is so very much more. After finding a mysterious
book in her late father's library, a young woman finds herself on a
journey to discover the truth behind what happened to her parents...a
journey that leads her through historical archives and libraries to the
truth behind the legend of Dracula...a journey both fascinating and
terrifying. 
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