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A bold, unsettling, and sinister collection of stories that asks what monster means.
What is a monster? The word encompasses the grotesque, the immoral, or the merely wondrous. Mythical creatures, corrupt executives, and cruel exes are all monsters. Monsters live among us. Sometimes the monster is us.
What do monsters mean to writers? Here is a literary grab-bag: fourteen writers from diverse genres — literary, mystery, horror, the experimental — interpret monsters either literal or metaphorical. The result is a snapshot of contemporary fiction.
Stories from: Sifton Tracey Anipare, Steve Burrows, Brenda Chapman, Chinenye Emezie, Barbara Fradkin, Zsuzsi Gartner, Liz Harmer, Babak Lakghomi, Pasha Malla, Andrew Pyper, Naben Ruthnum, Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, Andrew Sullivan, and Emily A. Weedon.
What is a monster? The word encompasses the grotesque, the immoral, or the merely wondrous. Mythical creatures, corrupt executives, and cruel exes are all monsters. Monsters live among us. Sometimes the monster is us.
What do monsters mean to writers? Here is a literary grab-bag: fourteen writers from diverse genres — literary, mystery, horror, the experimental — interpret monsters either literal or metaphorical. The result is a snapshot of contemporary fiction.
Stories from: Sifton Tracey Anipare, Steve Burrows, Brenda Chapman, Chinenye Emezie, Barbara Fradkin, Zsuzsi Gartner, Liz Harmer, Babak Lakghomi, Pasha Malla, Andrew Pyper, Naben Ruthnum, Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, Andrew Sullivan, and Emily A. Weedon.
Price: $19.99
Pages: 208
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Rare Machines
Publication Date:
13 October 2026
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781459757424
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Short stories, FICTION / Horror / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION / Gothic, FICTION / Literary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian, Contemporary horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
Russell Smith is a novelist and acquiring editor at Dundurn Press. His most recent novel is Self Care. He lives in Toronto.
- Introduction: On Monsters — Russell Smith
- In Good Hands — Babak Lakghomi
- The Lair — Naben Ruthnum
- The Third Thing — Liz Harmer
- The Undreamed — Pasha Malla
- The Guilty One — Brenda Chapman
- The Meek — Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
- Miss Hino — Sifton Tracey Anipare
- Throne — Andrew F. Sullivan
- Waking the Monster — Steve Burrows
- The Golem Suit — Emily A .Weedon