Valley of the Shadow by the brother-and-sister team of Earl Hardy and Naoma Hardy appeared from California’s ReGeJe Press, a modern woman searching for her lost son encountered ancient mythology in Raven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein, and a woman in a failing marriage was possessed by the soul of an exotic dancer in David L. Robbins’ Souls to Keep.

Christa Faust’s first book,Control Freak, was about a female writer researching a true-crime volume based on a grisly sex murder, who became involved in New York’s sadomasochism club scene and developed into a natural dominant. Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest and was set in a 21st century Toronto where Creole magic worked.

Ulysses G. Dietz made his debut with the gay vampire novel Desmond, and Jay Kasker’s Out of the Light involved more romantic vampires.

Movie tie-ins included Blade by Mel Odom, Dark City by Frank Lauria, Fallen by Dewey Gram, Disturbing Behavior by John Whitman,Species II by Yvonne Navarro, and Godzilla by Stephen Molstad.

Scott Ciencin continued his series of Godzilla novels aimed at both the adult and teenage markets with Godzilla vs. the Space Monster, Godzilla at World’s End, and Godzilla vs. the Robot Monster. Gargantua was a novelization of the inferior TV monster movie by Robert K. Andreassi (Keith R. A. DeCandido).

A sequel to the 1941 movie starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Return of the Wolf Man by Jeff Rovin was the first and apparently only volume in a series based on Universal Studios’ classic monster characters.

The X-Files: Fight the Future was the original title of the film by Chris Carter, “adapted” by Elizabeth Hand, and Ellen Steiber continued the series of young adult X-Files novelizations with Hungry Ghosts.