Books like Monsters Born and Made by Tanvi Berwah

After her parents are murdered, 7‑year‑old Jude, along with her sisters, is brought to the High Court of Faerie. Mortals like her are despised, but she seeks a place among the fey—especially the cruel Prince Cardan—while navigating palace intrigue and danger.

Six of Crows is a fantasy novel in the Grishaverse that follows a crew of thieves in the city of Ketterdam, a Dutch‑inspired port, told through the third‑person viewpoints of seven characters.

On a private Massachusetts island, teen Cadence spends a summer with her cousins and a boy named Gat, only to wake up with amnesia and a tangled web of secrets, friendships, and loss that threaten to destroy the Liars.

In a world where magic once pulsed through every stone, children of Orïsha fight to reclaim their heritage after a tyrant extinguishes their powers and their people’s hope.

On the starship Dormire, clones of a murdered crew awaken in vats, each fearing the next bloodshed—but a new clone with no memory of her death must uncover the killer before another murder takes place.

Laia, a Scholar, infiltrates the Martial Empire’s elite military academy as a slave after her brother is jailed for treason, aided by rebel Scholars who promise to save him.

Ashlyn Darrow in Budapest seeks help from supernatural men—especially the dangerous Maddox—but their instant hunger leads to a passionate love that could destroy them both.

The Monster Lives! (excerpt from Frankenstein) • (1818) • shortfiction by Mary Shelley [as by Mary W. Shelley ] The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe The Dancing Partner • (1893) • shortstory by Jerome K. Jerome Moxon's Master • (1899) • shortstory by Ambrose Bierce The Monster Maker • (1887) • shortstory by W. C. Morrow (variant of The Surgeon's Experiment) And the Dead Spake • (1922) • shortstory by E. F. Benson (variant of "And the Dead Spake ...") The Stolen Body • (1898) • shortstory by H. G. Wells The Vivisector Vivisected • (1932) • shortstory by Sir Ronald Ross The Incubator Man • (1928) • shortstory by Wallace West The Plague Demon (excerpt from Herbert West—Reanimator) • (1942) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft 156 • The Strange Island of Dr. Nork • (1949) • novelette by Robert Bloch 182 • It • (1940) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon 211 • Lazarus II • (1953) • shortstory by Richard Matheson 225 • The Golem • (1955) • shortstory by Avram Davidson 233 • Men of Iron • (1940) • shortstory by Guy Endore 242 • Changeling • [Marionettes, Inc.] • (1949) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury 253 • Robot AL-76 Goes Astray • (1942) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov 270 • Baby • (1958) • shortstory by Carol Emshwiller

"The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch of human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with visions of looming and ferocious monsters, often in the role as adversaries to great heroes. But while heroes have been closely studied by mythologists, monsters have been neglected, even though they are equally important as pan-human symbols and reveal similar insights into ways the mind works. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations and share so many features across different cultures."--BOOK JACKET.