Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors

by Doug Murano (Editor), Michael Bailey (Editor), Alma Katsu (Foreword by)

Overview

What happens when we make monsters? What happens when we make monsters of ourselves? Grotesque beings lurch from our darkest dreams. Vicious beasts stalk our twisted pasts. Lost souls haunt our deepest regrets. They are the blood on our hands. They are the obsessions in our heads. They are the vengeance in our hearts. They are Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors. Edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey. Featuring a foreword by Alma Katsu, and illustrations throughout by HagCult.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732724471
Publisher:	Written Backwards
Publication date:	02/18/2020
Pages:	342
Sales rank:	652,226
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.76(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword by Alma Katsu

“A Heart Arrhythmia Creeping Into a Dark Room” by Michael Wehunt

“Matryoshka” by Joanna Parypinski

“Butcher’s Blend” by Brian Hodge

“Operations Other Than War” by Nadia Bulkin

“One Day of Inside/Out” (poem) by Linda D. Addison

“One Last Transformation” by Josh Malerman

“Brains” by Ramsey Campbell

“You Are My Neighbor” by Max Booth III

“The Vodyanoy” (poem) by Christina Sng

“Imperfect Clay” by Lisa Morton

“Spectral Evidence” by Victor LaValle

“Ode to Joad the Toad” by Laird Barron

“Only Bruises Are Permanent” by Scott Edelman

“My Knowing Glance” by Lucy A. Snyder

“Paper Doll Hyperplane” by R.B. Payne

“Not Eradicated In You” by Bracken MacLeod

“Resurrection Points” by Usman T. Malik

“The Old Gods of Light” (poem) by Christina Sng

“Sounds Caught in Cobwebs” by M.E. Bronstein

“Umbra Sum” by Kristi DeMeester

“A Benediction of Corpses” (poem) by Stephanie M. Wytovich

“The Making of Asylum Ophelia” by Mercedes M. Yardley

“Frankenstein’s Daughter” by Theodora Goss.

Illustrations by HagCult

Editorial Reviews

★ 06/01/2020

Humans have long been fascinated by monsters. As author Alma Katsu comments in this stellar anthology's introduction, "We are inseparable, twined together like ivy." And it is that complicated entanglement, ruled by emotions such as curiosity, revenge, and, of course, fear, that gets explored through 19 original stories and four poems in this collection. Josh Malerman reframes a werewolf story with an addict's lens, while Nadia Bulkin considers how "monsters" are a matter of perspective, and Victor LaValle provides a haunting tale of the monstrocities we hide from each other and ourselves. Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Murano (Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders) and Bailey (Where Nightmares Come From) bring together a diverse array of authors writing at the top of their game. VERDICT Featuring well-known horror writers, as well as some need-to-know new voices, while also representing a wide range of the genre, from slight shivers to outright terror, this small press anthology is one most libraries should own. Hand to fans of Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year.

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