Six top books about literal and metaphorical monsters

Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and, more recently, The Last American Vampire.

For The Week magazine he tagged his six favorite books about literal and metaphorical monsters, including:
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

No book frightened me more as a boy, because it told a chilling truth: Our parents can't protect us from the evils of the world