Eric Flenner

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

Deadly spiders are accidentally unleashed from a top-secret military installation. Army specialists and Tanks are called in to exterminate the deadly predators, but the outbreak is worse than expected. Weapons of mass destruction have little or no effect on the venomous spiders. Civilians are strangled with spider webs and eaten alive. The Military in a desperate effort to eradicate the killer spiders, decide to demolish the entire city.

A woman wakes up in a corrupt prison after being attacked by a werewolf while camping with her boyfriend. She learns that her boyfriend was torn apart, and she is the only suspect.

Stephanie Beaton's occult thriller Evil In the Bayou concerns a private eye put on the case of a missing woman. The investigation forces the detective into a world of voodoo, human sacrifices, and satanic worship.

Brought back from a doomed space mission, an army of giant rats develop a big appetite for Los Angeles residents.