Books like King Kong by Edgar Wallace

Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel ‘Jurassic Park’ warns about the dangers of genetic engineering as a theme park’s dinosaur exhibit collapses, illustrating chaos theory and the unpredictable outcomes of scientific ambition.

Alice, a curious girl, follows a rabbit into Wonderland and the Looking‑Glass world, meeting eccentric characters like the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll’s celebrated children’s fantasy.

A covert scientific team ventures into the isolated Area X, a reclaimed landscape rife with anomalies and unknown life. As discoveries deepen, hidden motives and secrets threaten to unravel the expedition and alter humanity’s understanding of nature.

A solitary Chumash girl is left on San Nicolas Island and must learn to survive alone, mastering skills traditionally reserved for men while facing danger, hunger and loneliness.

Michael Crichton’s 1980 science‑fiction thriller follows an expedition into the Congo’s dense rainforest in search of diamonds and uncovering the mystery behind a deadly, earlier expedition—an homage to the lost‑world tradition of King Solomon’s Mines.

Journalist Ed Malone and his companions encounter Professor Challenger in the Amazon, uncovering a prehistoric world where dinosaurs still roam.

Mowgli, a human child raised by wolves, roams the Indian jungle, forming bonds with animal friends and facing challenges that test his courage and identity.

Junior adventurer Jeremy Jacob finds himself aboard Braid Beard’s pirate crew, learning the peculiar language, customs, and exhilarating life of the sea-riding outlaws.

Geronimo Stilton and friends race across the star‑filled skies to planet Jurassix, where daring heroes must warn a new world of a looming comet while battling dinosaur‑like beasts that crave rodents.

A young couple's adventure to save their lost teddy bear and attend the Small family's big ball.

When the Flock, genetically modified children with the ability to fly, arrive in Antarctica to stop global warming, they are hunted by their creator, the Uber-Director, who plans to auction them off.

Tom outsmarts a ragtag band of teenage pirate girls who have broken into his front yard, convincing them to let him join their daring adventures.

Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for anything, but when he inexplicably turns green and finds himself in an experimental hospital ward with his nemesis, school bully Tommy-Lee "Grim" Komissky, everyone is baffled but Rory believes he and Grim have become superheroes.

A lively picture book that follows young Pepi as he helps paint the grand tomb of Prince Dhutmose in ancient Egypt, capturing vibrant animals and learning historic art techniques.

A young ponie Daring Do races through clouds to uncover a hidden sky kingdom, its rare Pegasus and the legendary Halo of Cirrostrata—while battling aerial perils that test her courage.

A giant gorilla captures a woman on a tropical island and faces fearsome monsters and dinosaurs.

"I'll show you what horror means," snarled Fredric March in the 1931 film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Six decades later, the acclaimed author of Hollywood Gothic makes good on Mr. Hyde's promise with the most ambitious and entertaining history of the genre ever published. America is in love with horror, with demon children, gender-bending vampires, and the battlefield aesthetic of post-Vietnam movies. Horror entertainment in all its forms - from Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Phantom of the Opera to Stephen King, Anne Rice, and the Terminator, from Tod Browning's "Freaks" to the photographs of Diane Arbus and the neo-Gothic trappings of heavy metal music - is a multi-billion-dollar cultural juggernaut. Illuminating the dark side of the American century, this provocative book uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating social analysis and revealing anecdote, David Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive modes of cultural expression. He explores the disguised form in which Hollywood's classic horror movies played out the traumas of two world wars and the Depression; the nightmare visions of invasion and mind control catalyzed by the Cold War; the preoccupation with demon children that took hold as thalidomide, birth control, and abortion changed the reproductive landscape; the vogue in visceral, transformative special effects that paralleled the development of the plastic surgery industry; the link between the AIDS epidemic and the current fascination with vampires; and much more.