By Stephen King

A family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster.

Became the movie: Cujo.

By Josh Malerman
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Discovering an extraordinary house at the bottom of a lake in their Michigan community, two teens fall passionately in love while struggling to choose between the property’s ethereal freedoms and the safety of the world above.

By Peter Benchley
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When three people are killed by a great white shark in three different incidents, the police chief of a Long Island resort town is forced to take action.

Became the movie: Jaws.

By Steve Alten
Series MEG Series

David Taylor, the twenty-one-year-old son of Jonas Taylor, agrees to escort two of Angel's litter to Dubai, where a royal prince is building the largest aquarium in the world, unaware that he is being set up to lead an expedition into the dangerous Panthalassa ocean hidden beneath the Philippine Sea Plate.

By Steve Alten
Series MEG Series

Jonas and Mac attempt to bring back the escaped Megalodon sisters dead or alive while David seeks revenge on the Liopleurodon who murdered his girlfriend. By the New York Times best-selling Hell’s Aquarium.

By Frank Schatzing

A mysterious and intelligent life force called the Yrr takes control of various forms of marine life to exact revenge on all humankind for its environmental abuses, as whales begin sinking ships, toxic eyeless crabs poison Long Island’s water supply, and a deadly tsunami devastates the coastal regions of the world.

By Peter Benchley

There's something in the water...but this time, it's not what you think it is. Twenty years after his mega-bestseller Jaws, the master of the deep now gives us a stunning, brilliantly suspenseful novel about a strange new predator of the deep. Drawing on his singular knowledge of marine life, science, and history. Peter Benchley tells a mesmerizing story of a terrifying, deadly beast.

By James Patterson

All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it is too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide.