The Monstrous
By: edited by Ellen Datlow
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781616962067
Subjects: Horror tales; Monsters; Fiction
Description: Take a terrifying journey with literary masters of suspense, including Peter Straub, Kim Newman, and Caitlín R. Kiernan, visiting a place where the other is somehow one of us. These electrifying tales redefine monsters from mere things that go bump in the night to inexplicable, deadly reflections of our day-to-day lives. Whether it's a seemingly devoted teacher, an obsessive devotee of swans, or a diner full of evil creatures simply seeking oblivion, the monstrous is always there--and much closer than it appears.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Ellen Datlow; title: Natural history of autumn  -- Jeffrey Ford; title: Ashputtle  -- Peter Straub; title: Giants in the earth  -- Dale Bailey; title: Beginning of the year without a summer  -- Caitlín R. Kiernan; title: Wish from a bone  -- Gemma Files; title: Last, clean, bright summer  -- Livia Llewellyn; title: Totals  -- Adam-Troy Castro; title: Chill clutch of the unseen  -- Kim Newman; title: Down among the dead men  -- Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois; title: Catching flies  -- Carole Johnstone; title: Our turn too will one day come  -- Brian Hodge; title: Grindstone  -- Stephen Graham Jones; title: Doll hands  -- Adam L. G. Nevill; title: How I met the ghoul  -- Sofia Samatar; title: Jenny come to play  -- Terry Dowling; title: Miss ill-kept runt  -- Glen Hirshberg; title: Chasing sunset  -- A. C. Wise; title: Monster makers  -- Steve Rasnic Tem; title: Piano man  -- Christopher Fowler; title: Corpsemouth -- John Langan.