A teenage girl befriends a solitary bookworm who summers in her lakeside town, hoping he can help her learn about a lake monster she believes she saw. Over the course of a few summers, the two fall in love. The girl eventually learns the boy is the lake monster, granted human form for three months of the year.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

Fed up with her creepy, controlling stepfather, a teenage girl goes against his rules and meets up with her old boyfriend. The pair stumble upon a dangerous secret that puts them both in grave danger.

A young man takes a woman to haunted ruins in England. They begin a happy romance until they encounter an enthralling monster and return from the ruins with portions of their memory missing.

A woman flees to St. Martin after encountering a monster at an ice hotel in Finland.

A young Malaysian girl falls in love with a mysterious creature that is half woman, half-ocean-centipede, but they drift apart into their different worlds. Years later, the creature encounters the girl as an adult with her family, and their love is given a second chance.

After monsters emerge from the ocean and begin attacking, a woman rifles through disjointed memories of the beginning of the apocalypse and her failed marriage.

Two characters who are unknowingly tied up in the pursuit of the same businessman find themselves in rural Japan, hunted by supernatural forces.

A girl is pursued by her father in the forest as she begins to transform into a monstrous animal.

Left conquered and disappointed from her past relationship, a girl addresses her selfish lover who had sexually used her. The girl compares the boy to a vampire and speaks about how he has left her like an empty shell craving love and blood just like he was when he first approached her.