Wasatch County Library

Vampires! Werewolves! Aliens! As long as there have been humans, we've been sharing stories of the terrifying monsters living among us. Movies put faces to our fears, and turn these childhood legends into palpable experiences that make us sweat and shiver and scream. From dawn-of-Hollywood classics like King Kong, Dracula, and The Mummy to modern nightmare fodder like Voldemoort, Gollum, and the shrieking death angels from A Quiet Place, we'll

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Discusses the origin of werewolves both real and imaginary.

Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps.

An introduction to the megalania, a dinosaur native to Australia, providing information on their physical characteristics, behaviors, and extinction.

Orphan Rossamünd Bookchild has been sworn into the Emperor's service as a lamplighter—his duty to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways and protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he ever has—always too small and too meek. His loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed.
But when a haughty young girl, a member of...

Illustrations and simple text written in both English and Spanish that describes the prehistoric bird called phorusrhacos, where and how it lived, and how it became extinct.

Simple text and illustrations describe sabertooth cats, how they lived, and how they became extinct.

No one is sure if Marty Onster is really a monster, but when Bart Ully starts to make trouble during library time, which happens to be Marty's favorite time of the day, Marty's monster mania surfaces.

"Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster...