Last updated 9/12/08
Chinese Ghost Stories for Adults (Barricade, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dead Man's Song (Pinnacle, 2007.)
Pine Deep #2.
Even though the supernaturally inspired serial killer who plagued the town of Pine Deep is dead, the murders continue.
Ghost Road Blues (Pinnacle, 2006.)
Pine Deep #1.
A town which survived a serial killer discovers that the murders have started again, but this time the killer isn't human.
MABEY, MARTHA
Anointing, The (Dell, 1982.)
Two people inadvertently attract the attention of a secretive cult of serpent worshippers whose religion has links with an ancient power. Ambiguous supernatural element.
MABY, J. CECIL
By Stygian Waters (Houghton, 1933.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MACALISTER, KATIE (Pseudonym of Marthe Arends.)
Girl's Guide to Vampires, A (?)
?
Last of the Red Hot Vampires, The (Signet, 2007.)
Vampire romance.
Sex and the Single Vampire (?, 2004.)
?
MACARDLE, DOROTHY
Dark Enchantment (Doubleday, 1953, Peter Davies, 1953, Bantam, 1966.)
Marginal story with hints of witchcraft.
Fantastic Summer. (See The Unforeseen.)
Uneasy Freehold. (See The Uninvited.)
Unforeseen, The (Doubleday, 1946, Sun Dial, 1947, Bantam, 1951, Corgi, 1953. Peter Davies, 1946, as Fantastic Summer.)
Marginal story with hints of extrasensory perception.
Uninvited, The (Doubleday, 1942, Sun Dial, 1944, Bantam, 1947, Corgi, 1966. Peter Davies, 1941, as Uneasy Freehold.)
A low key and very traditional ghost story. Two people move into an old house with an unsavory reputation and discover that it is haunted, that the resident ghosts are angry at the living because of an injustice done while they were still alive themselves. Made into one of the most effective ghost story movies of all time.
MACDONALD, J.D.
Apocalypse Door, The (Tor, 2002.)
An occult adventure in which a special agent discovers the existence of a demonically powered artifact that could destroy the world.
Ghost Tribe, The (Harper, 2000.)
People stranded in the Amazon attempt to build a colony and encounter a mysterious tribe including a werecreature.
MACGREGOR, T.J.
Hanged Man, The (Kensington, 1998.)
A woman with psychic powers resists the efforts of the CIA to recruit her into their weapons division.
Seventh Sense, The (Kensington, 1999.)
A psychic woman tracks down a killer.
MACHALE, D.J. & DERBY, KATHLEEN
Tale of the Nightly Neighbors, The (Minstrel, 1995.)
A brother and sister discover that their new neighbors are vampires, and that they're converting everyone else in town.
MACHEN, ARTHUR
Bowmen and Other Legends of the War, The (Wildside, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Fragment of Life, A (Tartarus, 2001.)
Marginal bit about a man's mystical journey into the supernatural.
Great God Pan, The (Simpkin, 1916, Secker, 1926, Fantasy Press, ?.)
Short story in pamphlet form.
Great God Pan and Other Weird Tales, The (Armed Forces, 1943.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Great God Pan and the Inmost Light, The (Lane, 1894, Roberts, 1894, Richards, 1913, Secker, 1926.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Green Round, The (Benn, 1933, Arkham House, 1968, Tartarus, 2000.)
A man undergoing treatment for a psychological disorder begins to manifest genuine psychic powers.
Holy Terrors (Penguin, 1946.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
House of Souls, The (Richards, 1906, Knopf, 1922.)
Collection of unrelated stories not all of which are horror.
Strange World of Arthur Machen, The (Juniper, 1960.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (Knopf, 1948, Richards, 1949, Panther, 1953.)
Includes both volumes of the Pinnacle editions.
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (Pinnacle, 1971.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Volume Two (Pinnacle, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Tales of the Strange and Supernatural (Haldeman Julius, 1926.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Terror, The (Duckworth, 1917, Norton, 1965.)
A series of mysterious murders is eventually revealed as the work of animals finally fed up with humanity’s propensity for war.
Terror and Other Stories, The (Chaosium, 2005.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
White People, The (Chaosium, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MACKENZIE, NIGEL
House of Horror, The (Wright & Brown, 1959.)
Not seen.
MACKINNON, CYNTHIA
Light at the Edge of Darkness (?, 2007.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MACLANE, JACK (Pseudonym of Allen Billy Crider.)
Blood Dreams (Zebra, 1989.)
Another tale of a psychic link between a young boy and a psychotic murderer. In this case, the youngster is able to predict whom the next victim will be, but cannot convince anyone to take him seriously.
Just Before Dark (Zebra, 1990.)
After a man is killed in a local junkyard, strange sounds and movement occur there in the darkness. The disabled equipment takes on new life and animation, menacing anyone unwise enough to venture into the area. Not as silly as it sounds.
Keepers of the Beast (Zebra, 1988.)
A small Texas town is the scene of a series of killings and mutilations, first animals, eventually human beings. When a man arrives to investigate the death of his brother, he finds a shunned house with an evil reputation, along with a local population that would much prefer that he disappear, one way or another.
Rest in Peace (Zebra, 1990.)
A group of vaguely human but definitely abnormal creatures exist in the vicinity of a small rural cemetery, emerging in darkness to kill and/or rape their victims. Routine monster fare.
MACLAREN, BERNARD
Day of Misjudgment (Gollancz, 1956.)
The dead walk again all over the worold.
MACLAREN, JACK
Stories of Fear (Pendulum, 1964.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Dreadful Delineations (Delirium, 2007.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Little Red Book of Vampire Stories, The (Borderlands, 2003.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Night Tales (MacLay, 1999.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MACMANUS, VYONNE
Presence, The (Pinnacle, 1982.)
A small girl discovers that her imaginary playfellow isn't imaginary. The malevolent spirit teaches the girl to unleash a host of paranormal mental powers, firestarting, telekinesis, and so on. Surrendering to the temptation, she strikes out at the adult world.
MACMILLAN, SCOTT (See also collaboration which follows.)
At Sword's Point (Roc, 1994.)
Knights #2.
A police detective is involved with an order of benevolent vampires from the Middle Ages, arrayed against undead Nazis with visions of grandeur.
MACMILLAN, SCOTT & KURTZ, KATHERINE
Knights of the Blood (Roc, 1993, Raven, 1995.)
Knights #1
First in a projected series about a six hundred year old knightly order of good vampires and their efforts to hunt down and exterminate a nasty organization of bad vampires that was organized by the Nazis.
MACTYRE, PAUL
Doomsday 1999 (Ace, 1962. ? as Midge.)
The world has been nearly destroyed by an atomic war and the survivors are struggling to build a new society when a new menace arises to throw their future into jeopardy. A mutated insect form with a mass mind begins to divide what remains of the human race, preventing them from organizing any effective resistance. The protagonists are on the run from a variety of human foes when they discover that they alone can somehow communicate and co-exist with the swarms.
Midge. (See Doomsday 1999.)
MADDEN, MICKEE
Everlastin' (Pinnacle, 1995.)
A vacationer in Scotland falls in love with a ghost who's been hanging around for over a century. A romance novel.
MADISON, J.J.
Oh, It Feels Like Dying. (See The Thing!)
Thing!, The (Belmont Tower, 1971. Cameo, 1971, as Oh, It Feels Like Dying.)
A beautiful starlet who appears remarkably youthful is actually the leader of a band of vampires consisting of well known celebrities. Nasty goings on and liberal doses of rather dull sex scenes and an occasion neck biting.
MADSEN, DAVID
Vodoun (Morrow, 1994.)
Voodoo practitioners are channeling the spirits of the dead into the bodies of the living in an attempt to instigate a new government in Haiti.
MAGINN, SIMON
Sheep (Corgi, 1994, Borealis, 1996.)
James and Adele and their son take up residence in an old Welsh house that was once the scene of a mysterious death, a tragic fire, and violent insanity. Within a few days, Adele's mind is affected by the atmosphere of the place, and a series of animal mutilations appears to indicate that someone is recreating events of the past.
Virgins and Martyrs (Corgi, 1995, Borealis, 1996.)
An interesting psychological study of an unhappy and odd young man who takes a new apartment and finds his spirit possessed by that of the anorexic woman who lived there before him.
MAGUIRE, GREGORY
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Regan, 1999, Harper, 2000.)
The story of Cinderella set in 17th Century Holland and with a darker twist.
Dream Stealer, The (Harper & Row, ?)
A ghostly wolf appears once each generation to claim a host of victims from a small town.
Lost (Regan, 2001, Harper, 2002.)
A writer gets caught up in the investigation of a ghost that might be Jack the Ripper.
MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB
Seventh Heaven, The (?, 2006.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MAHY, MARGARET
Changeover, The (McElderry, 1984, Dent, 1984, Puffin, 1994.)
Two teens learn to use magical powers in order to confront a demon that has possessed the brother of one of them.
Dangerous Spaces (Hamish Hamilton, 1991.)
Not seen.
Haunting, The (Apple, 1982, Dent, 1982, Atheneum, 1983.)
Young adult. Following the death of his uncle, young Barney has the feeling that someone is watching him, hears a threatening voice, and slowly realizes that a supernatural force is taking an unpleasant interest. Exceptional of its type.
Tricksters, The (McElderry, 1986, Dent, 1986, Scholastic, 1988.)
A family on vacation encounter three brothers who seem just the slightest bit odd. In fact, they may well be either ghosts, or three aspects of a single personality, or something stranger entirely. Ostensibly for young adults, this is more intelligently written than a lot of supposedly adult fiction.
MAILER, NORMAN
Castle in the Forest, The (Random House, 2007.)
A demon manifests itself as a human.
MAJORS, SIMON (Pseudonym of Gardner Fox.)
Druid Stone, The (Paperback Library, 1967.)
A psychic investigator in New Hampshire suspects that a series of sinister events may have been caused by a secret coven of witches. What he doesn't realize until it is almost too late is that they are preparing to open a door between our world and Hell itself. Pretty dull.
MALDEN, R.H.
Nine Ghosts (Arnold, 1943, Ash-Tree, ?.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MALENKY, BARBARA
Human Oddities (Delirium, 2000.)
Collection of unrelated storie..
MALET, LUCAS
Tall Villa, The (Doran, 1919.)
Society novel involving a protective ghost.
MALYN, THOMAS
Romance of a Demon, The (Digby Long, 1892.)
Not seen.
MALZBERG, BARRY (See collaboration with Bill Pronzini.)
Northern Gothic (Soft Skull, 2001.)
Short novel about a modern day activist who experiences psychic links to a draft protestor and multiple murderer who lived during the Civil War.
MANACHINO, ALBERT J.
Odd Lot, The (Dark Regions, 1993.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MANCUSI, MARI
Boys That Bite (Berkley Jam, ?)
Vampire #1.
?
Girls That Growl (Jam, 2007.)
Vampire #3.
A vampire slayer's latest adventure.
Stake That! (Berkley Jam, 2006.)
Vampire #2.
An imitation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with good and bad vampires.
MANDELIK, NINA
Entity, The (Diamond, 1991.)
A malevolent ghosts haunts Fort Riley, Kansas, driving people to acts of senseless violence against one another, ultimately thwarted by a teenaged boy who has the ability to see what is going to happen in advance of the event.
MANDRAKE, TOM (See collaboration with Dan Mishkin.)
MANGELS, GEORGE
Frank’s World (St Martins, 1995.)
An amoral killer dies but his spirit manages to survive and begins to sap energy from the minds of the living.
MANKOWITZ, WOLF
Biggest Pig in Barbados, The (Longmans Green, 1965.)
Not seen. Voodoo.
MANLEY, MARK
Blood Sisters (Charter, 1985.)
Satanic rites and supernatural powers split a family. Two brothers struggle to survive as they struggle for their lives against a supernatural power that uses humans as its tools.
Devil's Coin, The (Zebra, 1990.)
A disquieting teenager discovers a magical coin which imbues him with supernatural powers. Corrupted by his newfound superiority, he begins to feel invulnerable, and expresses his dislike and contempt for others in increasingly violent fashions.
Sorcerer (Popular Library, 1988.)
The protagonist discovers almost by chance that he possesses supernormal abilities that could make him the most powerful man on Earth. A society of sorcerers is unwilling to allow him to survive independently of their control, and a magical, supernatural duel ensues until one side is defeated.
Throwback (Popular Library, 1987.)
A very peculiar novel of a strange genetic mutation which is actually the re-creation of an ancient structure, emerging unpredictably to alter the shape of human beings, causing them to become both more and less than human.
MANLEY, SEON
Ghost in the Fur Garden and Other Stories, The (Lothrop Lee, 1977.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MANN, DEL
Sands of Desire (Hustler, 1980.)
Pornography about an ancient curse.
MANN, JACK (Pseudonym of E. C. Vivian, whom see.)
Glass Too Many, The (Wright & Brown, 1940, Bookfinger, 1973.)
A Gordon Green novel.
Detective story with some minor supernatural content.
Grey Shapes (Wright & Brown, 1937, Bookfinger, 1970.)
A Gordon Green novel.
Occult detective story.
Her Ways Are Death (Wright & Brown, 1940, Bookfinger, 1981.)
A Gordon Green novel.
The feud between two families grows deadly when one of the principles turns out to be a practicing witch with authentic powers.
Maker of Shadows (Wright & Brown, 1938, Bookfinger, 1977.)
A Gordon Green novel.
An evil priest uses human sacrifice to increase his magical power, which he has directed against a family he hates.
Nightmare Farm (Wright & Brown, 1937, Bookfinger, 1975.)
A Gordon Green novel.
Elementals are tormenting a family until an occult detective finds a way to drive them off.
Ninth Life, The (Wright & Brown, 1939, Bookfinger, 1970.)
A Gordon Green novel.
A woman is revealed to be possessed by a cat goddess which periodically uses her body to manifest itself and commit murder.
MANNING-SAUNDERS, RUTH
Book of Ghosts and Goblins, The (?, 1969, Dutton, 1973.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MANNION, MICHAEL
Death Cloud (Leisure, 1976.)
A small town is menaced by a cloud which moves independently of air currents, and which brings death to those who fall within its shadow. The cloud turns out to be a new form of malevolent life created from toxins emitted into the air. An obvious and rather silly warning of the perils of polluting the environment.
Operating Codes (Hodder, 2000, Little, Brown, 2001.)
A young boy suspects that not all of the residents in his new home are still among the living.
MANTEL, HILARY
Beyond Black (Holt, 2005.)
The life of a genuine psychic troubled by her childhood.
MANVELL, ROGER
Dreamers, The (Simon & Schuster, 1958, Gollancz, 1958, Bantam, 1963, Corgi, 1964.)
A superior novel of the contagious dream, one which can be fatal to the dreamer. An angry African witchdoctor starts the cycle, a dream which grows in intensity as it passes from one person to another on its way toward the object of the witch doctor's wrath. The protagonists must create a counterdream to strike back at the originator.
MANZAREK, RAY
Snake Moon (Night Shade, 2006.)
A ghost story.
MARANO, MICHAEL
Dawn Song (Tor, 1998.)
Two demons of Hell are engaged in a battle against one another. One has created a succubus which it sends to live in a city in an apartment directly over an unhappy gay man, who is unwittingly about to play a major role in their battle.
MARASCO, ROBERT
Burnt Offerings (Delacorte, 1973, Dell, 1974.)
A family rents a large summer home for a ridiculously low price, only to discover that there's a good reason. After a series of dangerous accidents and supernatural events, they attempt to leave, only to discover that the estate will not allow them to escape. Filmed as a better than average movie.
MARCEAU, FELICIEN
By Invitation Only (Barker, 1955, translated from the French by A. Rhodes.)
Not seen.
MARCELIN, PIERRE THOBY
Beast of the Haitian Hills, The (Rinehart, 1946, Oxford, 1951, Gollancz, 1951, Time, 1964.)
Not seen.
MARCH, MELISAND
Mandrake Scream, The (Mason/Charter, 1975, Avon, 1977.)
A complex and frequently fascinating mixture of supernatural themes, the central one being the return of an scheming woman as a succubus, a sort of discorporate demon who drains males sexually.
Site, The (St Martins, 1988, Leisure, 1989.)
A newly opened high rise office building is the scene of increasingly violent and horrible events, as the edifice itself becomes the agent of vengeance for ancient wrongdoing. I'm surprised it took this long for someone to write a haunted skyscraper novel.
MARFFIN, KYLE
Carmilla: The Return (Design Image Group, 1998.)
A sequel to Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. The vampire countess has survived into the 20th Century, where she reaps a fresh crop of victims in this occasionally erotic story.
Gothique (Design Image Group, 2000.)
A coven of vampires open a nightclub as a front. Within its dark recesses, an increasing number of customers are turned into prisoners, sources of food for the undead. Then someone discovers the truth, and their comfortable isolation is in danger.
Boogeyman (Pocket Star, 2004, from the screenplay by Eric Kripke, Juliet Snowdon, and Stiles White.)
A man's memories of his father's abduction by a monster prove to be true.
Close to the Ground (Pocket, 2000.)
An Angel novel.
Angel accepts a job as bodyguard to a spoiled, airheaded producer's daughter. Just when he decides that it's a waste of time, he discovers that a mysterious supernatural creature is following them.
Haunted (Simon Pulse, 2002.)
An Angel novel.
A reality show set in a supposedly fake haunted house turns out to be real.
Hollywood Noir (Pocket, 2001.)
An Angel novel.
While investigating a mysterious murder, Angel and his cohorts discover a bevy of disappearing demons and a private detective who appears to have walked out of a motion picture.
Missing White Girl (Jove, 2007.)
The investigation of a routine abduction and murder turns strange when a police officer encounters the genuine supernatural.
River Runs Red (Jove, 2008.)
A supernatural force in a cavern influences the lives of a group of visiting students.
Slab, The (IDW, 2003.)
The investigation of a gang of serial killers unearths an ancient evil force.
Solitary Man (Simon Pulse, 2003.)
An Angel novel.
Angel and friends attempt to solve a series of ghostly crimes while fending off the well meant services of an amateur detective.
Stranger to the Sun (Pocket Pulse, 2002.)
An Angel novel.
Mysterious packages send anyone who opens them into a magical coma.
Summer (Simon Pulse, 2004.)
Witch Season #1.
A teenager gets caught up in the search for an evil witch.
Witch's Canyon (Harper, 2007.)
A Supernatural novel.
Animal spirits and human ghosts terrorize an area of desert.
Xander Years Volume 2, The (Pocket Pulse, 2000.)
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.
Novelization of selected episodes from the show.
Hell That Is Ice, The (Chicago Spectrum, 1999.)
A supernatural creature begins killing people at a research station in Antarctica. Tied in mystically to the end of the millennium.
Summoned, The (Pocket, 1993.)
A woman unaware she is descended from a long line of powerful witches is plagued by what she thinks is a demon seeking to possess her. As she investigates her own ancestry, she learns that the creature has been her consort through the ages. And now it's time to bear his child.
MARKS, JOHN
Fangland (Penguin Press, 2007.)
A vampire discovers a new way to spread his evil.
MARLEY, STEPHEN
Mortal Mask (Legend, 1991.)
Chia Black Dragon #2.
The spirit of her defeated enemy returns to plague the life of a sorceress.
Shadow Sisters (Legend, 1993.)
Chia Black Dragon #3.
An immortal woman returns to China after an abortive attempt to overthrow the current Pope.
Spirit Mirror (Collins, 1988.)
Chia Black Dragon #1.
An oriental quasi vampire story with two immortals clashing in an ancient battle.
MARLIN, JEFFREY
Getting Out the Ghost (Pacer, 1984.)
A ghost story.
MARLOWE, STEPHEN (Writes science fiction as Milton Lesser and Adam Chase.)
Translation (Prentice‑Hall, 1976, Ballantine, 1977.)
A small New England town is stalked by unseen horror connected to a strange painting. This is a tale of possession in which not a single person but an entire community is affected. Very effectively constructed and carried out.
Valkyrie Encounter, The (?, 1978.)
Not seen.
Gehenna: The Final Night (White Wolf, 2004.)
A World of Darkness novel.
The biblical Cain and his children are about to rise.
MARR, MELISSA
Orphans of the Devil (Satan’s Library, 1977.)
Pornography.
MARRYATT, FLORENCE
Blood of the Vampire, The (Hutchinson, 1897.)
Not seen.
Dead Man’s Message, The (Reed, 1894, Bliss, Sands, 1898, as A Soul on Fire.)
Not seen.
Ghost of Charlotte Cray and Other Stories, The (Munro, 1884.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Soul on Fire, A. (See The Dead Man’s Messages.)
Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs, The (Hutchinson, 1896.)
Not seen.
MARRYATT, FREDERICK
Phantom Ship, The (Colburn, 1839, Bentley, 1847, Routledge, 1857, Macmillan, 1896, Estes, 1897, Lane, 1906, Art & Educational Books, 1948, Four Square, 1966, Wildside, 2000.)
A young man discovers that his father is the captain of the Flying Dutchman. Everyone who sees the ship will die unless his son brings him a piece of the true cross.
MARS, KASEY
Dream, The (Pinnacle, 1995.)
The ghost of a woman's husband affects her dreams just as she meets a troubled man who is also plagued by dreams influenced by the supernatural. A romance novel.
Silent Rose, The (Pinnacle, 1994.)
A romance novel that involves ghostly memories that spur the protagonist toward a mysterious revelation...and romance, of course.
MARSH, JOHN
Body Made Alive (Stanley Smith, 1936.)
Not seen.
MARSH, KATE (Pseudonym of Katie MacAlister.)
Karma Marx #1.
Ghost of a Chance (Obsidian, 2008.)
A professional exorcist solves a mystery involving ghosts.
MARSH, RICHARD
Beetle, The (Skeffington, 1897, Mansfield, 1898, Pearson, 1908, Unwin, 1908, Putnam, 1917 World, 1959, Consul, 1965, Arno, 1976. Westlake, 1912, as The Mystery of the Beetle.)
A man who can transform himself into a giant beetle kidnaps a young woman and is chased by her lover through a series of confrontations.
Both Sides of the Veil (Methuen, 1902.)
Collection of short stories, not all of which are horror.
Haunted Chair and Other Stories, The (Ash-Tree, ?)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Mystery of the Beetle, The. (See The Beetle.)
Seen and the Unseen, The (Methuen, 1900.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
Tom Ossington’s Ghost (Bowden, 1898.)
A ghost shows up to direct the living in a search for a missing fortune.
MARSON, G.F.
Ghosts, Ghouls, and Gallows (Rider, 1946.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MARTEN, JACQUELINE
Forevermore. (See Visions of the Damned.)
Let the Crags Comb Out Her Dainty Hair (Popular Library, 1975.)
A standard gothic tale with supernatural overtones. The protagonist is a young woman who has been plagued with visions of the future, including one scene where she faces death at the edge of a precipice. Naturally the visions are not distinct enough for her to identify the specific time or the source of the danger, but obviously we'll find out before the book ends.
Nightmare in Red (Playboy, 1981.)
A rape victim is troubled by nightmares of a brutal assault, not her own but rather that of a young woman of the late Eighteenth Century. Now she must come to terms not only with that double outrage, but with the possibility that she is in communication with a spirit from the other side of the grave.
Visions of the Damned (Playboy, 1980. Pocket, 1988, as Forevermore.)
A young woman with precognitive visions seeks psychiatric help for what she believes to be a delusion, only to discover that she is reliving events which took place in the distant past, that she is in fact only the latest in a string of bodies occupied by the same personality over the years. Standard reincarnation story, reasonably well told.
MARTIN A.E.
Shudder Show, The (New South Wales Bookstall, 1948.)
Collection of unrelated stories.
MARTIN, ED
Frankenstein ’69 (Traveller’s Companion, 1969.)
Pornography about the return of Frankenstein’s monster.