From New York Times bestselling author Megan Shepherd comes a
complex tale of dark magic, family secrets, and monsters that don't stay
on the page.
"A propulsively charming nightmare, pooling like spilled ink across your
imagination." -- Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling author of
Hide
"Haunting and beautifully written . . . an exploration of the mysterious
power of stories." --Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author
of All the Missing Girls and The 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 father's remote seaside house, Bedtime Stories
for Monsters was 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 illustrated Bedtime
Stories can 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 father's
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 Haven's bed right as grisly deaths are reported in the
nearby woods, she must race to uncover dark, otherworldly family
secrets--completely rewriting everything she ever knew about herself in
the process.
