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GREGORY FROST
Monsters are where you find them…unless they find you first: A young Abraham Van Helsing tracks the first vampires of his career while something far more horrible dwells much closer to home. A boxing manager seeks to discover what inhuman force could have killed his best prizefighter. A 19th century chemist investigates spiritualism, inventing a device whereby mediums speak with the dead. A werewolf awaiting a transfer of funds from home becomes embroiled in a bank robbery. A young boy discovers something unnatural living alongside him in a Chicago boarding house. A private investigator searching for a runaway wife tracks her to a town with a diabolical secret. Odysseus and his Greek soldiers climb out of the Trojan Horse…and into a nightmare.
These are just some of the Creatures and Curiosities lurking within this collection of fourteen dark, sinister, and comic stories by Stoker, Hugo, and Nebula award finalist Gregory Frost.
- November 2024 978-1-958880-15-9
- Cover art by Richard "DeeK" Eisenhart
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Monsters are where you find them…unless they find you first: A young Abraham Van Helsing tracks the first vampires of his career while something far more horrible dwells much closer to home. A boxing manager seeks to discover what inhuman force could have killed his best prizefighter. A 19th century chemist investigates spiritualism, inventing a device whereby mediums speak with the dead. A werewolf awaiting a transfer of funds from home becomes embroiled in a bank robbery. A young boy discovers something unnatural living alongside him in a Chicago boarding house. A private investigator searching for a runaway wife tracks her to a town with a diabolical secret. Odysseus and his Greek soldiers climb out of the Trojan Horse…and into a nightmare.
These are just some of the Creatures and Curiosities lurking within this collection of fourteen dark, sinister, and comic stories by Stoker, Hugo, and Nebula award finalist Gregory Frost.
Table of Contents
The Dingus | So Coldly Sweet, So Deadly Fair | The Prowl | The Final Act | No Others are Genuine | Rubbish | That Blissful Height | Ill-Met in Ilium | The Bank Job | Traveling On | Ellende | Swift Decline | The Seals of New R'lyeh | Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters, H'ard and Andy Are Come to Town (with Michael Swanwick)
The Dingus | So Coldly Sweet, So Deadly Fair | The Prowl | The Final Act | No Others are Genuine | Rubbish | That Blissful Height | Ill-Met in Ilium | The Bank Job | Traveling On | Ellende | Swift Decline | The Seals of New R'lyeh | Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters, H'ard and Andy Are Come to Town (with Michael Swanwick)
“Greg Frost sets his fantastical stories in the equally strange realities of history. Other times, other cultures. But I always know that however it goes, I’m in for a good ride.”
— Maureen McHugh, author of China Mountain Zhang
"Beyond Here Be Monsters . . . Well, yes. But in addition to downright delicious suspense, terror, tragedy, and horror, here also be pathos, retribution, the occasional satisfying survival of dire circumstances, at times great heart, and even some good comedic fun. Frost is a consummate storyteller who excels in embedding you in exquisitely detailed unusual settings, introduces you to riveting characters, and then spins out the immersive and often terrifying, situations he visits upon them. This is a treasure of a collection!"
— Michaela Roessner
— Maureen McHugh, author of China Mountain Zhang
"Beyond Here Be Monsters . . . Well, yes. But in addition to downright delicious suspense, terror, tragedy, and horror, here also be pathos, retribution, the occasional satisfying survival of dire circumstances, at times great heart, and even some good comedic fun. Frost is a consummate storyteller who excels in embedding you in exquisitely detailed unusual settings, introduces you to riveting characters, and then spins out the immersive and often terrifying, situations he visits upon them. This is a treasure of a collection!"
— Michaela Roessner
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