A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.

We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them

Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.