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Creature Feature

It's all our faults really. We gave the mad scientists too much grant money. We didn't pay attention to the alien signals from outer space. We explored the depths and shadows of forgotten lands where things still lurk that humans have cause to fear. Monster comes from an old Latin word meaning omen and to warn. We ignore those warnings at our peril all the while we love to read about crazed creatures and monsters whose only power to destroy comes from showing us the never distant darkness of our human souls. The monsters are on the prowl again. Lower the shades, turn down the lights, and grab a Creature Feature before it grabs you.

Grendel

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By John Gardner

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The Beowulf story retold from the monster's point of view reveals the darker side of human nature and values.
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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By Max Brooks

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"The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time.World War Zis the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years."
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Watchers

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By Dean Koontz

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Two genetically engineered creatures escape from a lab. One is an intelligent Golden Retriever. The other is something much more sinister.

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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

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By Christopher Moore

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A comedy set in a town where hundreds of inhabitants are on anti-depressants, prescribed by Dr. Valerie Riordan. After a patient dies she asks the druggist to substitute placebos. Freed of drugs, the town comes alive with wine and song, so loud it even awakens a sea monster.

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Relic

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By Douglas J. Preston and Lincoln Child

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Investigating a series of savage murders that disrupt a massive new exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, graduate student Margo Green finds a clue in a failed Amazonian expedition.
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Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror

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By Steve Alten

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On a deep-sea dive Jonas Taylor finds a 60-foot prehistoric shark thought to be extinct—a predator that is now searching for prey.

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Jurassic Park

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By Michael Crichton

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John Hammond has created a sure-fire moneymaker. He has found a way to clone dinosaurs and created a theme park around them. It can’t fail. But then the dinosaurs escape.

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Hunter

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By James Byron Huggins

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In the near future, illegal medical experiments in Alaska have created this nearly indestructible creature of incredible cunning and savagery, who goes on a rampage through the ranks of the research stations.
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Cujo

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By Stephen King

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Cujo is a loveable 200-pound St. Bernard. Until the day he follows a rabbit into its den and changes into something much worse.

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Beast

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By Peter Benchley

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Whip Darling, a down-and-out deep-sea expert, investigates the appearance of a creature from the sea with a lust to kill and intent on wreaking havoc.

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