Monstrum

Monstrum: Classic Tales of Legendary, Beastly, and Ghastly Creatures

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Chad Arment, editor
ISBN 1-61646-022-9
Retail $14.95 (USD)
346 pp. / Paperback

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Monstrous Encounters:

Monstrum is an anthology of 20 classic short stories involving a variety of monsters from myth and imagination. From ghouls to sirens, cannibals to rat-people, there are plenty of creepy creatures to unsettle a few evenings of reading.

One story, "The Cube," is worth highlighting, as it is a precursor to the "pod people" science fiction story, involving identity take-overs by strange doppelganger creatures.

Contents:

Henric Van Kaarten or, The Valley of Spirits (1856), Anonymous
The Devil of the Marsh (1893), H. B. Marriott-Watson
The Basilisk (1894), R. Murray Gilchrist
The Upper Berth (1894), F. Marion Crawford
The Gorgon’s Head (1899), Gertrude Bacon
Medusa (1902), Phil Robinson
The Man Who Went Too Far (1904), E. F. Benson
Amina (1907), Edward Lucas White
Lukundoo (1907), Edward Lucas White
The Wendigo (1910), Algernon Blackwood
The Derelict (1912), William Hope Hodgson
Fishhead (1913), Irvin S. Cobb
The Mollmeit of the Mountain (1913), Cynthia Stockley
The Yarn of Lanky Job (1913), John Masefield
The People of the Pit (1918), A. Merritt
The Song of the Sirens (1919), Edward Lucas White
The Thing that Smelt (1921), Christopher Blayre
Negotium Perambulans (1922), E. F. Benson
The Ghoul (1922), Sir Hugh Charles Clifford
The Cube (1926), Charles Loring Jackson

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Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Cryptofiction)

Beyond the Great South Wall | Time Travel Stories | Killer Plant Stories | Sign of the Spider | Egyptian SciFi/Fantasy | PYM |
Christian Supernatural Stories | The Troll-Hunt | George MacDonald I | George MacDonald II | George MacDonald III |
Insects & Spider Stories | Sea Monster Fiction | Legend of Croquemitaine | Queen of Atlantis & Devil-Tree of El Dorado |
Jewel of Seven Stars & The Beetle | Lewis Carroll | Poe After Dark | Robert W. Chambers I | Robert W. Chambers II |
Sauria Monstra | Chesterton I | Chesterton II | Chesterton III | William Hope Hodgson | Darby O'Gill | John Silence |
Invisible Creatures | Robert H. Benson | Hawthorne After Dark | Bierce After Dark | Ape Creatures |
Stoneground Ghost Tales | Mystery Animals | M. R. James | Monstrum | Botanica Delira | Speculative Conan Doyle |
A. C. Benson | Werewolves | Ralph Adams Cram & James Platt | Supernatural H. G. Wells | E. F. Benson | Charles Loring Jackson |
Carnacki / John Bell | F. Marion Crawford & H. B. Marriott Watson | Bernard Capes | Bacillus | Owen Oliver |