BEYOND HERE BE MONSTERS: A COLLECTION OF CREATURES AND CURIOSITIES
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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 5, 2024 978-1-958880-26-5
- Cover art by Richard "DeeK" Eisenhart
- trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 276 pgs
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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)
"Beyond Here Be Monsters is an abode of dark, dark parables. In these stories Gregory Frost demonstrates craft, intelligence, a sense of humor, and a willingness to cross genre borders without a visa. Trust me, you’ve never read anything like “Ill-Met in Illium,” a secret history of the Trojan War—with vampires—told in Homeric verse. Nor “The Seals of New R’lyeh,” in which two petty criminals attempt to pull a heist in a New York City transformed by its new ruler, Cthulhu. In “The Dingus,” hard-boiled 40s-Bogart-movie boxer-turned-cab driver Meyers tries to find out how his protégé Kid Willette managed to get himself torn to pieces at Red’s Roadhouse. Frost is a master of the small details that make a character come to life, that take a story from merely entertaining to haunting. Plus, when he isn’t scaring you to death—and sometimes in the midst of it—he is very funny."
— John Kessel, Nebula Award-winning author of Pride and Prometheus and The Dark Ride
“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
"It is no longer the job of cartographers but authors like Gregory Frost to warn us Beyond Here Be Monsters . . . Each tale is set in another time and place; all the stories are meant to drive chills up your spine. Frost introduces the reader to many things that go bump in the night, from vampires to werewolves to shape-shifters and many more. Much of this book reads like a devotion or fan fiction to many classic horror writers. None of the creatures are new, but it takes a mind like Frost’s to give these monsters new life. Just be warned, that new life might be yours."
— Graham Brown, author of Black Rain
"[Frost's] second collection — the first was almost twenty years ago — contains fourteen stories ranging from good to very good. The overall tone is much darker than I expected them to be — vampires, werewolves, messages from the afterlife, and other unsettling and supernatural elements predominate. You might actually consider this a collection of horror stories rather than fantasy. They are mostly dark in tone as well as subject matter. There are no stories of princes and princesses, dragons or fairies, or any of the predominate trappings of contemporary fantasy. There are also no bad stories. Very much worth your time."
— Critical Mass
— John Kessel, Nebula Award-winning author of Pride and Prometheus and The Dark Ride
“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
"It is no longer the job of cartographers but authors like Gregory Frost to warn us Beyond Here Be Monsters . . . Each tale is set in another time and place; all the stories are meant to drive chills up your spine. Frost introduces the reader to many things that go bump in the night, from vampires to werewolves to shape-shifters and many more. Much of this book reads like a devotion or fan fiction to many classic horror writers. None of the creatures are new, but it takes a mind like Frost’s to give these monsters new life. Just be warned, that new life might be yours."
— Graham Brown, author of Black Rain
"[Frost's] second collection — the first was almost twenty years ago — contains fourteen stories ranging from good to very good. The overall tone is much darker than I expected them to be — vampires, werewolves, messages from the afterlife, and other unsettling and supernatural elements predominate. You might actually consider this a collection of horror stories rather than fantasy. They are mostly dark in tone as well as subject matter. There are no stories of princes and princesses, dragons or fairies, or any of the predominate trappings of contemporary fantasy. There are also no bad stories. Very much worth your time."
— Critical Mass
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