I Read Books: More Monsters
Full disclosure: I received my copy from the editor Steve Shaw of Black Shuck Books, a friend I have known so long that we sang a rude song about him to the tune of Crockett’s Theme while at school.
This is a collection of Paul Kane’s short stories on the theme of monsters (he has a previous collection called Monsters, hence More Monsters as the title). It’s a good mixture. There are some where the monster is the hero. There’s a very funny undead riff off the Blue Brothers (‘The Bones Brothers’). There’s a deal with the devil story (‘The Last Temptation of Alice Crump’) that if not totally original certainly manages an entertaining twist at the end. And there’s several monster horror stories, with one highlight being ‘The Bite’, possibly the nastiest in the collection, about hunger and transformation, where each reveal opens the door to worse things.
Read This: For several excellent stories about monsters
Don’t Read This: If horrid things happening to people, or horrid people in general, are not for you.
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