When trying to spy on his cousin's love interest, a boy stumbles upon a terrifying secret.

A detective finds a large mass of severed body parts, and sets to figure out the identity of the killer and their motives before they strike again.

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.

In a post-apocalyptic near future, a scientist and a young boy find strange creatures among Earth's growing piles of garbage. Eventually, most of the earth's garbage morphs into these monsters and humans must learn to co-exist with them.

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.

When Jim moons a car full of nuns on Halloween, he doesn't expect a high-speed car chase - or the monster they send after him.

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.

A town has frequent visits from phantom apparitions, and the townspeople have many explanations for the ghosts, ranging from disbelief to hallucination to the idea that humans and phantoms were once a single race.

A mother provides his son with a brief history of the wolves who turned into men and back into wolves—and their unfathomable terror.

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