Monsters of Any Kind
Monsters of Any Kind
(Anthology, edited by Alessandro Manzetti and Daniele Bonfanti,
English language
Independent Legions Publishing, 2018)
2018 Splatterpunk Award Nominee, Anthology category
five stories listed in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, vol.11, full rec list
Monsters are difference, change, deviance. Life force. If they want to survive, men need monsters.
Monsters of Any Kind is a new anthology collecting short stories about actual (not metaphorical) monsters, unusual creatures especially.
Table of Contents:
Intro, by Alessandro Manzetti and Daniele Bonfanti
Perpetual Antimony, by Cody Goodfellow
The Thing too Hideous to Describe…, by David J. Schow
Silt & Bone, by Jess Landry
Sucklings, by Lucy Taylor**
We All Make Sacrifices, by Jonathan Maberry
Brodkin’s Demesne, by Michael Gray Baughan
Sealed with a Kiss, by Owl Goingback
The Other Side of Semicolons, by Michael Bailey
Bad Hair Day, by Greg Sisco
Midnight Hobo, by Ramsey Campbell
Noverim Te, by Santiago Eximeno* **
The Dive, by Mark Alan Miller**
Mammy and the Flies, by Bruce Boston
Old Sly, by Gregory L. Norris
The Last Wintergirl, by Damien Angelica Walters**
The City of Sixes, by Edward Lee
Crisis of Faith, by Monica J. O’Rourke
Cracker Creek, by Erinn L. Kemper**
* Translated from Spanish by Daniele Bonfanti
** Story listed in The Best Horror of the Year, vol.11, full rec list
Internal illustrations by Stefano Cardoselli, cover art by Wendy Saber Core.