Hardcover|384 pages

FromNew York Timesbestselling author Megan Shepherd comes a complex tale of dark magic, family secrets, and monsters that dont stay on the page.

A propulsively charming nightmare, pooling like spilled ink across your imagination. Kiersten White,New York Timesbestselling author ofHide

Haunting and beautifully written . . . an exploration of the mysterious power of stories. Megan Miranda,New York Timesbestselling author ofAll the Missing GirlsandThe Last to Vanish

One step away from our world lies another: a land of violent fantasies, of sharp-toothed delights. . . .

Of all the things aspiring artist Haven Marbury expected to find while clearing out her late fathers remote seaside house,Bedtime Stories for Monsterswas not on the list. This secret handwritten manuscript is disturbingly different from his Pulitzer-winning works: its interweaving short stories crawl with horrific monsters and enigmatic humans that exist somewhere between this world and the next. The stories unsettle but also entice Haven, practically compelling her to illustrate them while she stays in the house that her father warned her was haunted. Clearly just dementia whispering in his ear . . . right?

Reeling from a failed marriage, Haven hopes an illustratedBedtime Storiescan be the lucrative posthumous father-daughter collaboration she desperately needs to jump-start her art career. However, everyone in the nearby vacation town wants a piece of the manuscript: her fathers obsessive literary salon members, the Ink Drinkers; her mysterious yet charming neighbor, who has a tendency toward three a.m. bonfires; a young barista with a literary forgery business; and of course, whoever keeps trying to break into her house. But when a monstrous creature appears under Havens bed right as grisly deaths are reported in the nearby woods, she must race to uncover dark, otherworldly family secretscompletely rewriting everything she ever knew about herself in the process.