You cant have a good tale of monster hunting without monsters. And sometimes the monsters dont need to be hunted. Sometimes its fun sitting back at minimum safe distance and watching the mayhem.
Weird Tales Magazine used to be nicknamed The Unusual Magazine, which is a bit of truth in advertising. And this issue hits that bulls-eye pretty solidly. There are monster stories (short stories and flash), monster poems, and even an essay about monsters to be found here. But theyre each a little outside of the conventional box. Each writer brought a curious kind of game here, twisting the established models, skewing expectations, and having some very dark fun spinning creepy yarns about monsters of all kinds. So, lock the doors, turn down the lights, and dig in. Its about to get scary in here.
What Mike Saw by Isaac Marion
Charakakon by Johnny Compton
Gorgeous by Delilah S. Dawson
Kolchak: Bruises on the Flesh of God by Charles R. Rutledge
Riddle by Gwendolyn Kiste
Straw Man by Peter Clines
Lagniappe by Dennis K. Crosby
Soft Shells by Clay McLeod Chapman
Termination Agreement: Flash Fiction by Wayne Brady
My Hideous Secret Garden: A Prose Poem by Maxwell I. Gold
Death Carries a Peculiar Perfume by Ellen Hopkins
Dinner with Mom by Ray Porter
Putting the Hell in Hell Week by J. Rose
Born in the Bayou: Swamp Monsters Great and Small by Chris Ryall
