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Does it skitter, swim or crawl? Does it roar, hiss or croak? Is it hairy, scaly or how many legs does it have? If it has a creature that is either mutated, discovered or engineered- and its on a killer rampage, then it needs to be on this list!
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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Jaws (Jaws, #1)
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Relic (Pendergast, #1)
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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The Mist
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 176,628 ratings
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The Terror
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It
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4.24 avg rating — 1,240,238 ratings
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Slugs (Slugs, #1)
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The Cellar
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The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)
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3.87 avg rating — 176,584 ratings
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Phantoms
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
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Meg (Meg, #1)
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The Ruins
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Who Goes There?
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3.78 avg rating — 11,751 ratings
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Loch Ness Revenge
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 398 ratings
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The Fly
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Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
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Nightcrawlers
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3.57 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Lair of the White Worm
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2.77 avg rating — 4,526 ratings
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The Rats (Rats, #1)
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The Conqueror Worms
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Brian Keene (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 4,543 ratings
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BUG-EYED MONSTERS: A Creature Feature Collection
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William Meikle (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Killerpede
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Scratch
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Thomas W. Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Montauk Monster
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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Gyo, Vol. 1
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3.84 avg rating — 5,616 ratings
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Subhuman (Unit 51, #1)
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Michael McBride (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
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The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
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4.34 avg rating — 36,585 ratings
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Sharkwater Beach
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Tim Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Black (The Black #1)
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Paul Elard Cooley (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,781 ratings
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Midnight's Lair
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Arrival (The Black #2)
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Paul Elard Cooley (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Outbreak (The Black #3)
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Paul Elard Cooley (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Stinger
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3.90 avg rating — 9,901 ratings
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Worm
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3.61 avg rating — 338 ratings
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The Jersey Devil
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 769 ratings
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Alien
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The Uninvited
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3.78 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Midnight
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 28,310 ratings
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Deeper
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3.51 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Pressure
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Brian Keene (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 790 ratings
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The Wolfen
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Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 7,618 ratings
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The Midnight Tour (The Beast House Chronicles, #3)
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Beast
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The Land That Time Forgot Collection
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3.89 avg rating — 8,130 ratings
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Monstrosity
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3.70 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Dreamcatcher
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 184,483 ratings
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Blood Cruise
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Jake Bible (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Dead Bait
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David Dunwoody (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Quatermass and the Pit (Quatermass #3)
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4.27 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Shadow Keepers
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Marisa Noelle (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Megacroc
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Julian Michael Carver (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Below the Palmettos
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Thomas W. Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Contest
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Operation Mongolia (S-Squad #8)
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William Meikle (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 355 ratings
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And the Ocean Was Our Sky
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3.61 avg rating — 8,735 ratings
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Just Add Water (Mail Order Massacres #1)
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Cryptid Island (Cryptid Zoo #0)
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Gerry Griffiths (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 98,
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Spiders
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3.57 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Jurassic Florida (One Size Eats All, #1)
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Violet Eyes
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John Everson (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Rattus New Yorkus (One Size Eats All, #2)
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Blood Island
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Tim Waggoner (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 110 ratings
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SNAFU: Resurrection: An Anthology of Military Horror Short Stories
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4.23 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Next
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Megalodon In Paradise
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Project Nemesis (Nemesis Saga, #1)
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Jeremy Robinson (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 3,036 ratings
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They Rise
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 362 ratings
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Killer
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Peter Tonkin (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Clickers
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Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror
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Gila!
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Orca
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Below
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Ryan Lockwood (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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The Dogs
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S79: The Horror in the Swamp
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Brett Schumacher (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Mandibles
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Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Cryptid Zoo (Cryptid Zoo, #1)
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Gerry Griffiths (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Ratman's Notebooks
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Savage Jungle: Lair of the Orang Pendek
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Horror Island - Where Nightmares Become Reality: Voted Scariest Horror of 2019 by Horror Readers USA
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Carnosaur
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Earthcore
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Scott Sigler (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 7,604 ratings
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Swamp Monster Massacre
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Hunter Shea (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Operation: Siberia (S-Squad #3)
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William Meikle (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 520 ratings
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The Drive-In
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Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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The Anomaly
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Michael Rutger (Pseudonym)
3.78 avg rating — 12,080 ratings
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Lair (Rats, #2)
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Blight
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Awakened (Awakened #1)
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3.64 avg rating — 3,482 ratings
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The Breach
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Edward J. McFadden III (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 150 ratings
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The Nest
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Gregory A. Douglas (Pseudonym)
3.63 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Kingdom of the Spiders
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Burial Ground
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Michael McBride (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
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Fearful Fathoms II: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror
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Mark Parker (Editor)
3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Night things
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Thomas F. Monteleone (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Legend (Event Group Thriller #2)
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Crustaceans
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William Meikle (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 260 ratings
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The Year of the Angry Rabbit
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The Ocean Dark
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Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 183 ratings
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