The Facility is gone. The cryptids being studied there are dead. Now the monsters are out in the open, changing the world forever.
Dr Borm is on the run with Cryptid Nine, desperate to survive for the sake of the hybrid child his beloved ‘Nina' carries.
Shaw and Captain Case have become uneasy allies, both mutating after their encounter with the Wendigo, neither werewolf nor human.
Detective Leonard and cryptid-hunter Dandy are tracking a vicious pack of ghouls, whose savagery has sparked public terror.
And behind them all, a powerful conspiracy plans to return cryptids to dominance over humanity…
Crease is known in Weaver as 'the bug guy', the man who takes care of insects and other critters. But what emerges from the shadows of the town's waste plant is beyond anything found in nature. Fist-sized cockroaches. Bird-sized wasps. Spiders, millipedes, ticks, all swollen to enormous bulk with vicious appetites to match. And other things, creatures that should never exist. Through the night they come, slithering, buzzing, scuttling, crawling over skin, burrowing into flesh, making the town their nest. Time is soon running out for Crease and the other survivors, as that hideous skittering noise closes in from all around...
Shaw and his loyal dog Girl do their best to avoid humanity, especially now that his fellow werewolves are nearly extinct. But humanity is heading his way. The Facility is a research centre that specialises in cryptozoology: the search for legendary creatures. Once these 'cryptids' are found, they are caged, abused and experimented on to graft their physical prowess onto ordinary soldiers. Even as the Facility's troops hunt down Shaw, and the cunning Cryptid Nine plans her escape, something far more horrifying is emerging from hibernation to feed. And both human and cryptid will discover that nothing can stop the Wendigo...
In the frozen wilderness of Alaska, a cabin is readied for the winter. Jonesy and Lisa, with their loyal dog Lad, have been preparing their home to avoid a repeat of their horrific first year living apart from civilisation. They survived that. They'll survive this. But then the strangers arrive. Two people who are even more desperate to survive, who have clawed their way through hell to reach Jonesy and Lisa, and who will drag them back down there with them. And out in the forest, that other cabin waits for someone to return...
Horror is what Dan Law enjoys. He loves to read horror novels as a way to escape from his teaching job, from his loneliness, from the everyday dullness of life in Silver Lake. That's what Dan lives for. When a new bookstore opens in town, every visitor receives a free book of their own. A book that tells their own personal story...a story they have to follow to the brutal end. As Silver Lake's population descends into violent savagery, Dan finds he is no longer living for horror novels - he's living inside one.
Under dirty black skies, the town of Dead Crow is deluged by days of rain, flooding the streets and cutting it off from the outside world. Chief Andy Curran already has his hands full, getting residents to safety and battling a greedy mayor. But now people are going missing in the endless rain. Curran soon discovers that there are things living in the overspilling river that threatens to drown Dead Crow. Their eerie clicking sounds drift across the frightened town as they emerge from its toxic waters. The rain isn't stopping. The clicking is getting louder. And the screams are only just beginning.
