Jason Offutt

Discover 250+ humanoids, howlers, and scaley swimmers in this follow-up to Chasing American Monsters. Jason Offutt takes you on an adventure across all the countries of North America to discover more than 250 monsters. Featuring illustrations throughout, this book travels to Belize, Canada, the Caribbean, Greenland, Mexico, and beyond. You'll meet at least one monster in every US state as well as every province of Canada and Mexico. Journey to Cuba to find the horned boa known as the Mother of Water. Head to the south of Honduras to spot the giant bird known as El Comelenguas (the tongue-eater). Catch a glimpse of the Grafton Monster alongside West Virginia's roadways. Hunt for the Ogopogo (dragon) of Lake Chelan, Canada. From Arizona's Lizard Man to Canada's Wendigo, this book opens your eyes to the monstrous wonders of North America.

The sequel to Jason Offutt's award-winning novel, The Girl in the Corn, which critics have raved is "an outstanding blend of horror, speculative fiction, and apocalyptic fantasy topped with madness" (HorrorDNA) and "a haunting, unsettling, gripping novel" (Richard Thomas, a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson nominee).Evil comes in pretty packages.Thomas Cavanaugh's life is now a blur, a blend of foggy memories and hidden horrors. When his fae girlfriend Jillian begins to act strangely, he wonders whether he should put an end to their relationship. Then Jillian does the unthinkable and vanishes with four-year-old Jacob Jenkins, a boy with terrifying supernatural powers. Suddenly, years later, Jacob reappears unaged, claiming to have been in another world.Sheriff Glenn is called in to investigate a series of violent murders, all with evidence pointing toward the boy from two worlds. Someone with dark magic is devouring souls but for what purpose? Thomas and his allies must prepare for a bloody final battle before their world is completely swept away into another, with no way to get home.For readers who enjoy horror novels by Stephen King, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, and Paul G. Tremblay.

The sequel to Jason Offutt's award-winning novel, The Girl in the Corn, which critics have raved is ""an outstanding blend of horror, speculative fiction, and apocalyptic fantasy topped with madness"" (HorrorDNA) and ""a haunting, unsettling, gripping novel"" (Richard Thomas, a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson nominee).Evil comes in pretty packages.Thomas Cavanaugh's life is now a blur, a blend of foggy memories and hidden horrors. When his fae girlfriend Jillian begins to act strangely, he wonders whether he should put an end to their relationship. Then Jillian does the unthinkable and vanishes with four-year-old Jacob Jenkins, a boy with terrifying supernatural powers. Suddenly, years later, Jacob reappears unaged, claiming to have been in another world.Sheriff Glenn is called in to investigate a series of violent murders, all with evidence pointing toward the boy from two worlds. Someone with dark magic is devouring souls but for what purpose? Thomas and his allies must prepare for a bloody final battle before their world is completely swept away into another, with no way to get home.For readers who enjoy horror novels by Stephen King, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, and Paul G. Tremblay.

The sequel to Jason Offutt's award-winning novel, The Girl in the Corn, which critics have raved is ""an outstanding blend of horror, speculative fiction, and apocalyptic fantasy topped with madness"" (HorrorDNA) and ""a haunting, unsettling, gripping novel"" (Richard Thomas, a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson nominee).Evil comes in pretty packages.Thomas Cavanaugh's life is now a blur, a blend of foggy memories and hidden horrors. When his fae girlfriend Jillian begins to act strangely, he wonders whether he should put an end to their relationship. Then Jillian does the unthinkable and vanishes with four-year-old Jacob Jenkins, a boy with terrifying supernatural powers. Suddenly, years later, Jacob reappears unaged, claiming to have been in another world.Sheriff Glenn is called in to investigate a series of violent murders, all with evidence pointing toward the boy from two worlds. Someone with dark magic is devouring souls but for what purpose? Thomas and his allies must prepare for a bloody final battle before their world is completely swept away into another, with no way to get home.For readers who enjoy horror novels by Stephen King, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, and Paul G. Tremblay.

Beware of what lurks in the corn. Fairies don't exist. At least that's what Thomas Cavanaugh's parents say. But the events of that one night, when he follows a fairy into the cornfield on his parents' farm, prove them wrong. What seems like a destructive explosion was, Thomas knows, an encounter with Dauðr, a force that threatens to destroy the fairy's world and his sanity.Years later, after a troubled childhood and a series of dead-end jobs, he is still haunted by what he saw that night. One day he crosses paths with a beautiful young woman and a troubled young man, soon realizing that he first met them as a kid while under psychiatric care after his encounters in the cornfield. Has fate brought them together? Are they meant to join forces to save the fairy's world and their own? Or is one of them not who they claim to be?

Beware of what lurks in the corn. Fairies don't exist. At least that's what Thomas Cavanaugh's parents say. But the events of that one night, when he follows a fairy into the cornfield on his parents' farm, prove them wrong. What seems like a destructive explosion was, Thomas knows, an encounter with Dauðr, a force that threatens to destroy the fairy's world and his sanity.Years later, after a troubled childhood and a series of dead-end jobs, he is still haunted by what he saw that night. One day he crosses paths with a beautiful young woman and a troubled young man, soon realizing that he first met them as a kid while under psychiatric care after his encounters in the cornfield. Has fate brought them together? Are they meant to join forces to save the fairy's world and their own? Or is one of them not who they claim to be?

Beware of what lurks in the corn. Fairies don't exist. At least that's what Thomas Cavanaugh's parents say. But the events of that one night, when he follows a fairy into the cornfield on his parents' farm, prove them wrong. What seems like a destructive explosion was, Thomas knows, an encounter with Dauðr, a force that threatens to destroy the fairy's world and his sanity.Years later, after a troubled childhood and a series of dead-end jobs, he is still haunted by what he saw that night. One day he crosses paths with a beautiful young woman and a troubled young man, soon realizing that he first met them as a kid while under psychiatric care after his encounters in the cornfield. Has fate brought them together? Are they meant to join forces to save the fairy's world and their own? Or is one of them not who they claim to be?

Skid doesn't believe in ghosts or time travel or any of that nonsense. A circus runaway-turned-bouncer, she believes in hard work, self-defense, and good strong coffee. Then one day an annoying theoretical physicist named Dave pops into the seat next to her at her least favorite Kansas City bar and disappears into thin air when she punches him (he totally deserved it). Now, street names are changing, Skid's favorite muffins are swapping frosting flavors, Dave keeps reappearing in odd places like the old Sanderson murder house—and that's only the start of her problems. Something has gone wrong. Terribly wrong. Absolutely &#*$&ed up. Someone has the nastiest versions of every conceivable reality at their fingertips, and they're not afraid to smash them together. With the help of a smooth-talking haunted house owner and a linebacker-sized Dungeons and Dragons-loving baker, Skid and Dave set out to save the world from whatever scientific experiment has sent them all dimension-hopping against their will. It probably means the world is screwed.

Skid doesn't believe in ghosts or time travel or any of that nonsense. A circus runaway-turned-bouncer, she believes in hard work, self-defense, and good strong coffee. Then one day an annoying theoretical physicist named Dave pops into the seat next to her at her least favorite Kansas City bar and disappears into thin air when she punches him (he totally deserved it). Now, street names are changing, Skid's favorite muffins are swapping frosting flavors, Dave keeps reappearing in odd places like the old Sanderson murder house—and that's only the start of her problems. Something has gone wrong. Terribly wrong. Absolutely &#*$&ed up. Someone has the nastiest versions of every conceivable reality at their fingertips, and they're not afraid to smash them together. With the help of a smooth-talking haunted house owner and a linebacker-sized Dungeons and Dragons-loving baker, Skid and Dave set out to save the world from whatever scientific experiment has sent them all dimension-hopping against their will. It probably means the world is screwed.

From Alabama to Wyoming and every state in between, the United States is crawling with monsters lurking in the dark corners, just waiting for the right moment to scare the pants off unsuspecting victims. This eye-opening book is a state-by-state guide to monsters, myths, cryptids, and things that go bump in the night. Discover Connecticut s Black Dog of Hanging Hills, the Tommyknockers of Pennsylvania, the Banshee of the South Dakota Badlands, and hundreds of other fearful figures. With more than 250 creatures covering everything from modern-day dinosaurs

Doug realized four things while lying under a highway in middle-of-nowhere Nebraska: -Concussions hurt. -The government had tried to kill him. -His friends were going to hate his plan. And the most horrifying, -Zombies are real. The second "Bad Day" book takes Doug, Jenna, Nikki and Terry on a road trip through a plague-swept America toward Mayday, Kentucky, a haven that may not be as safe as safe as it seems.

"'In Road Closed: Twelve Bloody Short Stories to Brighten Your Day, ' charcoal-sketched creatures shuffle from the chambers of Jason Offutt's imagination into the shadows of our darkened bedrooms, and we can do little to stop them from taking us away. Within these pages we find dreamlike, macabre sequences of wonder and horror; karmic sexuality; monsters and beings hungry for the lifeblood of children and greasy spoon waitresses; a bent and dystopic space-time continuum; and gothic family issues which twist and rot like the arms of dead trees that may or may not be reaching for our throats. Readers should put this book down at their own risk. Once these twelve sink in their teeth, it's all over but the screaming." -- Luke Rolfes, author of 'Flyover Country'

43 paranormal stories and out-of-the-ordinary occurences in Missouri. Tour the "Show-me State" to lonely cemeteries, abandoned buildings, and into Bigfoot-infested woods. Tales of the supernatural include a UFO crash and government cover-up, encounters with a mid-Missouri dogman, Bigfoot encounters in Southern Missouri, and the spirits that haunt an abandoned nursing home in Walt Disney's boyhood home. Did Mark Twain dictate a novel through a Ouija board? Does a secret UFO base exist in Jefferson City? Was a Missouri student accosted by black-eyed Kids? Did a Marceline man sleep with an extraterrestrial? Find out in Paranormal Missouri.