I Am the Monster Under the Bed - Hardcover

by Emily Zinnikas (Author)

TIME ONLY MAKES THE NIGHTMARE MORE REAL.

Something lives under Willa's bed. As an adult, her fondest childhood memories are of the invisible entity under her bed who taught her how to read. Now thirty-two, Willa is 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 that splashed across headlines during her senior year of high school. Six teenagers died in the woods while Willa walked free, and everyone thinks she killed them.

When an old classmate calls about a funeral, Willa reluctantly travels to her sleepy hometown, where the possessed forest that stole her friends looms. The trees whistle for her attention, but she knows better than to listen. And the unexplained knocking from the shadows in the basement of her decaying childhood home is honestly the least of her problems.

As her past pulls her back to the place where she swore she'd never return, Willa is drawn toward the monster she left behind--and becoming the villain her hometown has always believed her to be.

Author Biography

EMILY ZINNIKAS is the author of I Am the Monster Under the Bed, an upcoming 2026 horror debut with St. Martin's Press. She has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and lives in New York. Emily loves all things spooky - and considers a ghost tour the highlight of any vacation.