Monster City


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The never-before-told true account of the serial killers who terrorized Nashville's music scene for decades--and the cold-case Murder Squad determined to bring an end to their sadistic sprees. Nashville--a haven for aspiring musicians and a magnet for country-music fans. By the time Pat Postiglione arrived there in 1980, it was also the scene of an unsolved series of vicious sex slayings that served as a harbinger of worse to come. As Postiglione was promoted from street-beat Metro cop to detective sergeant heading Music City's elite cold-case Murder Squad, some of America's most bizarre, elusive, and savage serial killers were calling Nashville home. And during the next two decades, the body count climbed. From Vanderbilt University to dive bars and out-of-the-way motels, Postiglione followed the bloody tracks of these ever-escalating crimes--each enacted by a different psychopath with the same intent: to murder without motive or remorse. But of all the investigations, of all the monsters Postiglione chased, few were as chilling, or as game changing, as the Rest Stop Killer: a homicidal trucker who turned the interstates into his trolling ground. Next stop, Nashville. But Postiglione was waiting.




City Monster


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Don’t Miss Poorly Drawn Lines on Cake, airing on FX and streaming on FX on Hulu! From New York Times bestselling author and artist Reza Farazmand, his first graphic novel about a young monster who moves to a big city. City Monster is set in a world of supernatural creatures and follows a young monster who moves to the city. As he struggles to figure out his future, his new life is interrupted by questions about his mysterious roommate—a ghost who can’t remember the past. Joined by their neighbor, a vampire named Kim, they explore the city, meeting a series of strange and spooky characters and looking for answers about life, memories, and where to get a good beer. With Reza's signature style, and familiar snark, this graphic novel is equal parts irreverent and insightful, the perfect vehicle for conveying the utter absurdity of our bizarre and confusing times.




Eli's Guide to Staying Alive in Monster City


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THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Originally posted on Reddit's r/nosleep and largely unedited from the online series, Eli's rules and stories are now here to stay as a novel, with a few extra tidbits thrown in! Eli always thought a list of rules to survive some insane situation like a zombie apocalypse was a bit ridiculous. How would *rules* be enough to save you in a hellscape like that? ...But then his world went to shit, and he realized a list of rules might just save his life. Twelve rules, to be exact. Twelve rules to deal with all the types of monsters that have overrun his city - which has been completely cut off from the outside world by a massive, impenetrable dome. Armed with the rules, his best cat friend Mr. Bailey, and a penchant for naming the monsters after people he hated in high school (there were a lot, okay), every day is a fight to stay alive in monster city. But maybe not all hope is lost. Sure, Eli saw his entire family die, and sure, there may be no way out...but maybe there is. And maybe he's not the last human left (he hopes not, because if *he's* the best humanity has to offer, we're in trouble). And as he continues to survive and delve deeper, it turns out there may be more to the dome and the monsters than he ever imagined. A lot more. Which means his rules are more important than ever, and so are his stories.So hug your family (for Eli, because he can't, and really wishes he still could), relax, and get ready. Because Eli (and Mr. Bailey) present to you: ELI'S GUIDE TO STAYING ALIVE IN MONSTER CITY *Suggested for ages 16+ due to language and violence*




El Monstruo


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John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City's days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated urban stain in the western world are doomed, and the monster he has grown to know and love through a quarter century of reporting on its foibles and tragedies and blight will be globalized into one more McCity. El Monstruo is a defense of place and the history of that place. No one has told the gritty, vibrant histories of this city of 23 million faceless souls from the ground up, listened to the stories of those who have not been crushed, deconstructed the Monstruo's very monstrousness, and lived to tell its secrets. In El Monstruo, Ross now does.




New York City Monsters


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Monsters hide all over New York City and young readers are encouraged to find them.




Monster Comes to the City


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Monster Allergy, Vol. 2


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Zick has a huge secret: He can see invisible ghosts and monsters that no one else can. It’s his job to tame those monsters and protect people. There’s just one problem: Zick is allergic to just about everything—including monsters! The Monster Allergy adventure continues in this exciting second volume. There’s a giant monster plant growing beneath the streets of Oldmill Village, and what’s worse, Zick’s mystical pet cat and monster tutor, Timothy, has been catnapped! It’s up to Zick and his friend Elena Potato to rescue Timothy and all the other stolen cats—but they won’t find themselves up against any ordinary cat thief. The despicable Magnacat might look like a normal businessman, but he’s actually a shape-changing Gorka—one of a dangerous race of monsters that can take any form and control people’s minds! Magnacat is determined to take over the peaceful monster city of Bibbur-Si and is hunting down special cats like Timothy to do it. Zick will have to rely on all his newfound monster-taming powers if he’s to defeat Magnacat, but will it be enough? Find out in Monster Allergy, Vol. 2!




Kilmer's Pet Monster


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Bailey City is full of some pretty weird grown-ups. It is the perfect place for the spooky Hauntly Manor Inn. Could a witch with a very unusual pet be visiting for a while?




Crescent City Monsters


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City and Region


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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.