In a world populated by monsters of various shapes and sizes, a small monster escapes from its hungry parent only to be feasted upon by other predatory creatures. When the small monster meets a friend that teaches it about the transformative power of art, it gives the monster confidence to finally fight back.

After seeing a horrifying creature in the forest surrounding their home, a husband and wife try to plan an escape, leaving their three terrified children hidden inside and anxiously awaiting their return.

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.

A carpenter in an alternate universe determined to do his job does not realize what he will have to give up for money. The monsters he once though were dangerous become his friends, and the people he works for become the monsters themselves.

A young boy comes of age in front of a television screen playing monster movies in 1970s America.

A man recalls his childhood near the woods and the creature which lurked within it.

When a series of mysterious deaths threaten a small town, two young boys discover that the culprit is even more terrifying than they had imagined.

A young, hungry girl disobeys the rules of her village and fails to provide "La Caridad," a monster who takes the form of an old lady, the proper offering of food one day. That night, the ten-year-old faces the terrible consequences of her actions.

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.

A housewife violently assaults an unsuspecting intruder with mental images of torture.