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.

An American boy in an Italian village continues to unravel the rumors surrounding a neighboring village until he learns the dark truth behind the village's monsters and rituals.

A man slowly falls in love with a beautiful, mysterious river troll who lives under a bridge near his home. However, as the gap between their worlds becomes wider, they must reckon with how their interspecies relationship would survive in the unforgiving world above.

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

Almost a hundred years ago, people built a road at the cost of destroying a local lake. A young boy sets out deliver vengeance and justice for the wronged party, but in doing so, finds himself dealing with a problem he couldn't have imagined: the war between the roads and the water.

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

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

A teenage girl is the apprentice to a mysterious magician who fails to reveal the sinister lifeforce behind their magic.

Despite the misunderstandings of his cursed family, a transgender boy tries to connect with his roots.