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.
