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A select list of books featuring real and imagined monsters that threaten people and society. |
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Alten, Steve |
Megalodon series |
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Prehistoric fish living in the Mariana Trench suddenly surface and start attacking people.
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| Armstrong, Robert, E. | Canis | |
| Cross-bred dogs randomly attack the homeless of Houston. | ||
| Bakis, Kirsten |
Lives of the monster dogs
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| Benchley, Peter | Beast | |
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Bermudan fisherman Whip Darling sets out to capture a giant man-eating squid.
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Benchley, Peter |
Jaws
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| Crichton, Michael | Congo | |
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Crichton, Michael |
Eaters of the dead |
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Medieval Arab is sent to the Viking lands to kill man-eating beasts.
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Duane, Diane |
The Book of night with moon |
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Man-eating dinosaurs escape from the underworld to terrorise New Yorkers
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Eulo, Ken |
Claw |
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Suspected killer tiger escapes from a zoo and is pursued into the wilderness.
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| Foster, Alan Dean | Cachalot | |
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Rogue whales attack the floating cities of a new human colony in outer space.
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| Herbert, James | Rats | |
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Mutant rats cause chaos by preying on humans.
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| Martel, Yann | Life of Pi | |
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Pi is emigrating from India to Canada when disaster strikes and he is shipwrecked and cast adrift in a lifeboat together with the animals from his father's zoo. The Bengal tiger has a deadly taste for the other passengers in this entertaining survival story.
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| Preston, Douglas |
Relic
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| Rovin, Jeff | Fatalis | |
| Sabre tooth tigers wreak havoc in Los Angeles | ||
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Rovin, Jeff |
Vespers |
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Giant bats terrorize New York.
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| Smith, Martin Cruz | Nightwing | |
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Desert communities are terrorized by cave dwelling bats.
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| Watkins, Paul | Archangel | |
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Real life animal attacks
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| Capstick, Peter |
Death in the long grass
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| Capuzzo, Michael |
Close to shore
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| Fernicola, Richard |
Twelve days of terror : a definitive investigation of the 1916 New Jersey shark attacks
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| Olsen, Jack |
Night of the grizzlies
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| Patterson, John Henry | Man-eaters of Tsavo |
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