num_pages: 336
description: We are all of us monsters. We are none of us monsters. Through the work of twenty-six writers emerging to award-winning and masters of their craft The Humanity of Monsters plumbs the depths of humane monsters monstrous humans and the interstices between. Monstrous heralds of change the sight of whom only children can survive. Monsters born of the battlefield in gunfire and frost and blood clothed in too-familiar flesh. Monsters human and otherwise born of fear and love and retribution all wrapped tight and inextricable one from the other: the Fallen outside of time lovers and monsters in borrowed skin and creatures from beyond the stars and humans who have travelled to them. Dreams of lost and siren-song depths - of other half-held half-remembered lives. And the things we have survived and the things we might yet survive in the face of greater eviscerating loss. In stories by turns surreal sublime brutal and haunting there are no easy answers to be found no simple nor uncomplicated labels to be had. Only the surety that though there be monsters you will name them false. And when you meet those who truly are you will not know them.Tasting Gomoa by Chinelo OnwualuDead Sea Fruit by Kaaron WarrenThe Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. ValenteThe Emperors Old Bones by Gemma FilesThe Things by Peter Wattsmuo-kas Child by Indrapramit DasSix by Leah BobetThe Nazir by Sofia SamatarA Handful of Earth by Silvia Moreno-GarciaIn Winter by Sonya TaaffeGhostweight by Yoon Ha LeeHow to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil GaimanNight They Missed the Horror Show by Joe LansdaleIf You Were a Dinosaur My Love by Rachel SwirskyGive Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream by Maria Dahvana HeadleyThe Horse Latitudes by Sunny MoraineBoyfriend and Shark by Berit EllingsenNever the Same by Polenth BlakeMantis Wives by Kij JohnsonProboscis by Laird BarronOut They Come by Alex Dally MacFarlaneand Love shall have no Dominion by Livia LlewellynYou Go Where It Takes You by Nathan BallingrudDream of the Fishermans Wife by A.C. WiseTheories of Pain by Rose LembergTerrible Lizards by Meghan McCarron
language: English
title: The Humanity of Monsters
publisher: chiZine Publications