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i am the monster under the bed
"With its eerie premise and steadily intensifying dread, I Am the Monster Under the Bed culminates in a truly wild, horror-driven finale. Emily Zinnikas delivers a darkly imaginative debut about trauma, secrets, and the terrifying freedom of unleashing our monsters." –Karma Brown, #1 international bestselling author of Mother Is Watching
"An atmospheric spiral of dread, I Am the Monster Under the Bed is smart, scary, and compulsively readable. If you're a fan of Riley Sager, Jason Rekulak, or Jennifer McMahon, you won't want to miss this one." –Scott Carson, nationally bestselling author of Departure 37
“Emily Zinnikas seamlessly weaves childhood horrors and a homecoming thriller into a stellar, truly memorable debut about the nature of monstrosity. The human cruelties and mysteries are even darker than the things that lurk under our beds and in our basements. I loved it, and I can’t wait to see what she does next!” –Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of ROAD OF BONES and CARRY ME TO MY GRAVE​
As an adult, Willa's fondest childhood memories are of the invisible entity who lived under her bed and taught her to read. Now she's a reclusive but successful painter, until a bombshell news report exposes her identity as the controversial survivor of the unsolved Rapture Mystery Slayings, a small-town tragedy where six teenagers died in the woods - but Willa walked free, and everyone thinks she did it.
When an old classmate calls about a funeral, Willa reluctantly escapes the media frenzy to the last place anyone would look: her sleepy hometown where a sentient forest looms. The trees whistle for her attention, but she knows better than to listen. And the unexplained knocking from the basement of her decaying childhood home is honestly the least of her problems.
Once back, Willa's troubled past comes back to haunt her tenfold. An old stalker is creeping on her once again, and she resolves to show him the rage of a grown woman. Her plans will draw her closer to the hungry forest she swore she’d never return to, to the monster at home she chose to forget – and to becoming the villain her hometown has always suspected her to be. ​​
