I Am the Monster Under the Bed, Emily Zinnikas
I Am the Monster Under the Bed, Emily Zinnikas
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I Am the Monster Under the Bed
A Novel

Author: Emily Zinnikas

Narrator: Jenn Lee

Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2026


Synopsis

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press

About Emily Zinnikas

Emily Zinnikas is the author of 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.

About Jenn Lee

Jenn Lee is a classically trained Broadway actress who’s narrated over 110 books as well as 4 documentaries for The American Experience on PBS and is also the voice of ServiceLink. Inspired by the passion within the words, Jenn is fascinated by the story we all carry and how it unfurls in the liminal spaces. How do we circumnavigate whats in our hearts, the real world and the many spaces between.Whether it's Horror or Lit Fic, Romance or Sci Fi, her narration style is intimate, frank and passionate. And funny. She can be funny too.


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"Fans of the TV series Yellowjackets and the novels of Riley Sager will enjoy this suspenseful horror story." – Booklist

"With its eerie premise and steadily intensifying dread, I Am the Monster Under the Bed culminates in a truly wild, horror-driven finale. Emily Zinnikas delivers a darkly imaginative debut about trauma, secrets, and the terrifying freedom of unleashing our monsters." –Karma Brown, #1 international bestselling author of Mother Is Watching

"Complex characters and a delicious mystery make this debut horror novel a spine-tingling delight." –Kelley Armstrong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Rockton Novels

“A wonderfully dark and creepy story about survivor's guilt, people who are turned into monsters, and some who just choose to be monsters. ” –Peter Clines, New York Times bestselling author

"An atmospheric spiral of dread, I Am the Monster Under the Bed is smart, scary, and compulsively readable. If you're a fan of Riley Sager, Jason Rekulak, or Jennifer McMahon, you won't want to miss this one." –Scott Carson, nationally bestselling author of Departure 37

“Emily Zinnikas seamlessly weaves childhood horrors and a homecoming thriller into a stellar, truly memorable debut about the nature of monstrosity. The human cruelties and mysteries are even darker than the things that lurk under our beds and in our basements. I loved it, and I can’t wait to see what she does next!” –Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and Carry Me to My Grave

"I Am the Monster Under the Bed is a disturbingly uncanny psychedelic voyage of a book. I read it on the edge of my seat with my heart in my throat—horrifying, enchanting, exquisite." –McCormick Templeman, author of Atlas of Unknowable Things