Urban Nightmares

In Togo, a vampire disguised as a glowing firefly slips through locked doors to feed on the sleeping.

The Philippines' most feared shapeshifter hides as your neighbor by day and hunts as a beast by night.

Something large, dark, and feline stalks the misty moorlands of Devon, leaving torn livestock and fleeting glimpses behind.

A ghostly black dog with blazing red eyes has haunted the roads and churchyards of East Anglia for over a thousand years.

A towering skeleton formed from the bones of the unburied dead, rattling through the night to bite off heads.

A headless, pale giant spotted lumbering through a West Virginia town in 1964.

A vampire that tears its own torso free and flies through the night on bat-like wings, trailing its entrails below.

A red-eyed winged humanoid haunting the skies above Chicago since 2011.

A skinless horse-rider hybrid rises from the ocean around Orkney, and its breath alone can wilt crops and sicken entire islands.

A slippery, oil-coated humanoid that terrorizes Malaysian towns at night, impossible to catch or hold.

Two fishermen claim robotic, claw-handed beings floated them aboard a craft in 1973.

Zanzibar's most feared entity attacks at night and demands that victims tell others, or it returns.

In the forests of Ghana, something with iron teeth and bat wings sits in the treetops, legs dangling like bait.

A cloaked figure with clawed hands and blazing eyes leapt over walls and breathed blue flame across Victorian England.

The original Romanian undead predates Dracula by centuries and is still feared enough that corpses are occasionally exhumed and staked in rural villages.

Millions of South Africans still raise their beds on bricks to stay out of reach of this invisible dwarf.

A winged, light-emitting creature that besieged a small Iowa town for three nights in 1903.