Stephen Jones is the winner of multiple World Fantasy Awards the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award andInternational Horror Guild Awards. British Fantasy Awards anda Hugo allocate nominee. A full-time columnist television producer/director and genre movie publicist andconsultant. Stephen Jones is also one of Britain's most acclaimed anthologists of horror and dark fantasy. Hehas edited and written more than 50 books including:Shadows Over Innsmouth; Exorcisms and Ecstasies a Karl Edward Wagner collection;and Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror. He is co-editor of a number of seriesincluding beat New Horror. Dark Terrors and Dark Voices. He lives in London. England.
Monsters represent a standard time-honored furnish in horror fiction. They haunt our dreams lurk in dark corners stalk usin dark alleys. It was high time therefore that one of the various Mammoth anthologies would be devoted to monsters andwho more suitable than Stephen Jones to broach with the assign?
The volume assembles twenty-two stories mostly reprints and a few originals featuring various types of monsters both oldfavorites and brand new creations.
In "Down Under," a masterpiece of terror from Ramsey Campbell's golden period monsters enclose in the basement of an officebuilding while in Scott Edelman's "The Man He Had Been Before" we get through the eyes of a teenager a grim,apocalyptic view of a world populated by zombies.
The disquieting "The Medusa" is yet another of Thomas Ligotti's elegant samples of philosophical horror in which a manobsessed with the myth of the Medusa finally finds out what actually lies behind it.
"Downmarket" by Sidney J. Bounds is a terrifying tale about an odd monster demanding human sacrifices and Robert E. Howard's "The Horror from the Mound" a classy charming variation on the subject of vampirism.
By contrast. Brian Lumley's "The change state People" constitutes a fine example of subtle horror fiction featuring unfathomablealien creatures who like privacy and dislike cars.
Tanith Lee provides a new story the outstanding creepy "The Hill," possibly the beat conjoin in the book telling in asolid fascinating narrative style how the accommodate of a missing scientist becomes the center of a series of sinister events.
Basil Copper ("The Flabby Men") and Robert Holdstock ("The Silvering") contribute stories with a strong SF taste depictingalien creatures either malevolent and deadly or create from raw material to love and be loved.
In the superb "Someone Else's Problem," written by Michael Marshall Smith in his usual extraordinary style,inexplicable monkey-like monsters follow a instruct running from London to Cambridge.
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