The Mammoth Book of Monsters
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Everybody knows the most memorable monsters—vampires, werewolves, zombies, mad scientists' creations—and you will find all of those classic creatures suitably featured in this monsterrific new anthology from multiple award-winning editor Stephen Jones.
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But other monstrosities are also ably represented within these pages...
An academic goes in search of a mythological creature in Thomas Ligotti's The Medusa, a stone gargoyle is brought to life in Downmarketby Sydney J. Bounds, and a reclusive islander shares his world with shape-changing selkies in Robert Holdstock's haunting tale The Silvering.
Late-night office workers are menaced by hungry horrors in Ramsey Cambell's claustrophobic Down There, while the monsters of both Brian Lumley's The Thin Peopleand Basil Copper's The Flabby Menshare only a semblance of humanity. The King of the Monsters himself turns up in Godzilla's Twelve Step Programby Joe R. Lansdale, R. Chetwynd-Hayes' The Shadmockand Clive Barker's Rawhead Rex are genuinely new monsters, and the last monster-fighter and the last classic monster confront each other in Kim Newman's The Chill Clutch of the Unseen.
If you like monsters, then there are plenty to choose from in this creature-filled collection boasting some of the biggest names in horror, fantasy and science fiction.
Contents:
Introduction: How to Make a Monster by Stephen Jones
Visitation by David J. Schow
Down There by Ramsey Campbell
The Man He Had Been Before by Scott Edelman
Calling All Monsters by Dennis Etchison
The Shadmock by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
The Spider Kiss by Christopher Fowler
Cafe Endless: Spring Rain by Nancy Holder
The Medusa by Thomas Ligotti
In the Poor Girl Taken by Surprise by Gemma Files
Downmarket by Sydney J. Bounds
Fat Man by Jay Lake
The Thin People by Brian Lumley
The Hill by Tanith Lee
Godzilla's Twelve Step Program by Joe R. Lansdale
.220 Swift by Karl Edward Wagner
Our Lady of the Sauropods by Robert Silverberg
The Flabby Man by Basil Copper
The Silvering by Robert Holdstock
Someone Else's Problem by Michael Marshall Smith
Rawhead Rex by Clive Barker
The Chill Clutch of the Unseen by Kim Newman
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