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The Mammoth Book of Monsters

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.

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 Downmarket by 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 People and Basil Copper's The Flabby Men share only a semblance of humanity. The King of the Monsters himself turns up in Godzilla's Twelve Step Program by Joe R. Lansdale, R. Chetwynd-Hayes' The Shadmock and 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

Café 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

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 608
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780786719761
  • Genres
  • horror, anthologies, fiction, fantasy, monsters, supernatural, paranormal, american
  • Release date
  • 2007