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Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology By Women Of Horror Kindle Edition
Jessica McHugh (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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STORIES BY: Joanna Roye, G.G. Silverman, Stacey Bell, Amy Easton, K.P. Kulski, S.M. Ketcham, E.E. Florence, Briana McGuckin, Annie Neugebauer, Kayleigh Barber, Sam Fleming, Hailey Piper, J.H. Moncrieff, Jessica McHugh, Jennifer Loring, Joanna Koch, Angela Sylvaine, J.C. Raye, Christa Carmen, Juliana Spink Mills, Leslie Wibberley
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 31, 2021
- File size3700 KB
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- ASIN : B0981D3V44
- Publisher : Strangehouse Books (October 31, 2021)
- Publication date : October 31, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 3700 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 292 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1946335320
- Lending : Not Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,372,104 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,344 in Horror Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #2,949 in Horror Short Stories
- #3,219 in Horror Anthologies (Books)
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About the authors
Sam Fleming is a Scottish writer of speculative fiction, originally from Fife, now based in Aberdeenshire. They have a BSc (Hons) in Marine Science from Southampton University and a Masters in Environmental Diagnostics from Cranfield University. Their career has included stints as an archaeologist, which mostly involved cleaning Roman skeletons, and as head warden for a well-known stone circle in Oxfordshire. Sam leads Orbit 6 for the British Science Fiction Association and is a founder member of the Altered Symmetry horror crit group.
Jessica McHugh is a novelist, poet, and internationally-produced playwright running amok in the fields of horror, sci-fi, young adult, and wherever else her peculiar mind leads. She's had twenty-four books published in twelve years, including her bizarro romp, "The Green Kangaroos," her YA series, "The Darla Decker Diaries," and her blackout poetry collection, "A Complex Accident of Life." Please visit JessicaMcHughBooks.com for more samples of the McHughniverse.
Christa Carmen's debut collection, Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked won the 2018 Indie Horror Book Award for Best Debut Collection, and additional work has been published in places such as Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Fireside, Rooster Republic’s Not All Monsters, Muzzleland Press’ Behold the Undead of Dracula, The Wicked Library, and Tales to Terrify.
These days when she's not writing, she keeps chickens, reads books like Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein and The Gashlycrumb Tinies to her daughter, forgets to pull a daily tarot card, and tinkers with a dog food recipe concocted to make her beagle live forever.
Most of her work comes from gazing upon the ghosts of the past or else into the dark corners of nature, those places where whorls of bark become owl eyes and deer step through tunnels of hanging leaves and creeping briars only to disappear.
Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, The Worm and His Kings, Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Benny Rose the Cannibal King, and The Possession of Natalie Glasgow. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Assocation, with dozens of short stories appearing in Pseudopod, Vastarien, Dark Matter Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and other publications. An avid reader and lifelong Godzilla fangirl, she nowadays lives with her wife in Maryland, where their paranormal research is classified.
Find more about Hailey Piper's work at www.haileypiper.com or follow her on Twitter via @HaileyPiperSays.
Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Shirley Jackson Award finalist and author of THE WINGSPAN OF SEVERED HANDS, THE COUVADE, and the forthcoming collection CONVULSIVE. Lyrical splatter and speculative horror in over 50 journals and anthologies. Formerly published as Joanna Koch. He/They. Find Joe at horrosong.blog and on Twitter @horrorsong.
Jennifer Loring’s short fiction has been published widely, appearing in anthologies such as Nightscript IV, Not All Monsters, Would but Time Await: An Anthology of New England Folk Horror, and Arterial Bloom, as well as online in The Literary Hatchet and City. River. Tree., among many others. Longer work includes four novels and several novellas. She holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction with a concentration in horror fiction. Jenn lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she and her husband are owned by a turtle and two basset hounds.
Sara Tantlinger is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, and the Stoker-nominated works To Be Devoured, Cradleland of Parasites, and Not All Monsters. Along with being a mentor for the HWA Mentorship Program, she is also a co-organizer for the HWA Pittsburgh Chapter. She embraces all things macabre and can be found lurking in graveyards or on Twitter @SaraTantlinger, at saratantlinger.com and on Instagram @inkychaotics
Annie Neugebauer (@AnnieNeugebauer) is a novelist, short story author, and award-winning poet. She has work appearing in over seventy publications, including magazines such as Black Static, Apex, and Cemetery Dance, as well as anthologies such as Bram Stoker Award finalist The Beauty of Death and #1 Amazon bestseller Killing It Softly. She's an active member of the Horror Writers Association, webmaster for the Poetry Society of Texas, and a columnist for LitReactor and Writer Unboxed. You can visit her at www.AnnieNeugebauer.com for blogs, creative works, free organizational tools for writers, and more.
Juliana Spink Mills was born in England but grew up in Brazil. Now she lives in Connecticut and writes science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of the Blade Hunt Chronicles YA fantasy series. Her short stories have appeared in online publications and anthologies, including the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Not All Monsters. Besides writing, Juliana works as a Portuguese/English translator, and as a library assistant.
G.G. Silverman is an award-winning author of speculative and literary short fiction and poetry who lives just north of Seattle. Her short fiction has appeared in the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Women in Horror anthology "Not All Monsters" from StrangeHouse Books, and was a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, among other honors.
Her work has also appeared in Cemetery Gates Media’s "A Woman Built by Man," Psychopomp, Speculative City, Corvid Queen, So To Speak, The Iron Horse Literary Review, ellipsis, The Seventh Wave, Molotov Cocktail, and more. Her short story, “I’m sorry, I tried, I love you,” was optioned by writer/director Goldie Jones for short film adaptation, and will have its world premiere in Hollywood at the DWF:LA Film Festival in June of 2022. Also in 2022, two of her short works appeared in anthologies listed on Tor Nightfire’s "All the Horror Books We’re Excited About in 2022."
Find G.G. online!
• Website and blog: www.ggsilverman.com
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/GG_Silverman
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/GGSilvermanAuthor
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J.C. Raye's stories are also found in anthologies with Belanger Books, C.M. Muller, Scary Dairy, Devil's Party Press, Books & Boos, Franklin/Kerr, and Gravelight Press to name a few. More stories in 2020 with Rooster Republic/Strangehouse Books, Transmundane, DBND, and Gravelight Press. Yeah, she writes more than she vacuums, that's for sure.
Stories about?
Hmmm...potato chip bag creatures in Cape May, possessed monkey bridges in Vietnam, inept Inuit shamans in Alaska, crime sprees with cockroaches in the deep south, Pennsylvania tea bugs, witch addictions in Salem, and dust storm bunnies in Kansas. Yep. She is all over the damn place and clearly has some issues. Suffice to say, her tales will bother you long after you donate the paperback to goodwill.
Why horror & sci-fi, you ask?
For 20 years, she's been a professor at a small community college teaching the most feared course on the planet: Public Speaking. Witnessing grown people openly weep, beg, scream, freak out and pass out is just another delightful day on the job for her. And it is not just the students she upsets. For the last four years, she’s led a college-wide campaign to assist her colleagues in locating free, current, credible text resources and break the hold of expensive corporate publishers. Right, so those companies and even some of the faculty are mad at her now. She’s just particularly good at getting under the skin.
Of course, we're also got to throw a little blame her parents way too. As early as ten years of age, they were sitting her down in front of the same movies they were watching. Ahh, the days of one shared screen for the whole family. Her clearest, youngest memories include, The Poseidon Adventure, Night of the Living Dead, The Shining, Baron Blood and Suspiria. Sorry there, Disney. But you can see why she is like this.
Briana Una McGuckin writes Gothic Romance/Romantic Suspense and fabulist fiction. Her work appears in the Stoker-nominated Not All Monsters, an anthology of women’s horror (Rooster Republic), as well as The Arcanist, Breath & Shadow, and Hides the Dark Tower (Pole-to-Pole Publishing). She has an MFA from Western Connecticut State University. She also has cerebral palsy. Find her on Twitter @BrianaUna, or check out her blog: http://brianaunamcguckin.com
Leslie Wibberley lives in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada with her amazing family and an overly enthusiastic cocker spaniel. She writes across multiple genres and age categories but has a passion for dark, speculative fiction. Her award-winning short stories and creative non-fiction is published in multiple print and online venues.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/feismom
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wibberleythewordsmith/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lesliewibberley/
J.H. Moncrieff's City of Ghosts won the 2018 Kindle Book Review Award for best Horror/Suspense.
Reviewers have described her work as early Gillian Flynn with a little Ray Bradbury and Stephen King thrown in for good measure.
She won Harlequin's search for “the next Gillian Flynn” in 2016. Her first published novella, The Bear Who Wouldn’t Leave, was featured in Samhain’s Childhood Fears collection and stayed on its horror bestsellers list for over a year.
When not writing, she loves exploring the world's most haunted places, advocating for animal rights, and summoning her inner ninja in muay thai class.
To get free ebooks and a new spooky story every week, go to http://bit.ly/MoncrieffLibrary.
K.P. Kulski is the author of the novel, Fairest Flesh. Her short fiction has appeared in Unnerving Magazine, anthologies Not All Monsters and Typhon Vol. 2. She is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and Air Force. When she’s not writing, she teaches history at a small college in Northeast Ohio.
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Overall, this is an incredibly solid collection of short horror stories written by a diverse and talented group of female writers. Featuring 21 short stories, there is objectively definitely more than enough content to be worth your $20.
However, if you're not familiar with horror or this is your first foray into the genre, I wouldn't recommend this anthology for a few reasons: it features many different subgenres of horror such as body horror, supernatural, folk horror, and traditional monster stories. If you don't know what you like this could be quite an overwhelming read.
Additionally, some stories feature dialogue more heavily than they do imagery or vice versa. In my opinion, the stories that are more image-centric are much more engaging than dialogue-focused stories, as there's not enough time to spend with the characters to really feel for them.
The diversity of subgenres and settings in Not All Monsters is, conversely its strong point for an audience who is already deeply familiar with horror and its tropes. As with any short story collection, you won't enjoy all of them. But there's definitely something for everyone here, and these authors bring a fresh new breath of air to horror with their stories that feature relatable, diverse characters, most of whom are women.
This anthology is a perfect read for the people whom it's aimed at, that being speculative fiction fans looking for something new, modern, and original - with the added bonus of diversity in characters, authors, and subgenre.
If you're ambitious enough, this could be a great entry point to horror for those who are open-minded. But it's not a guarantee. Not All Monsters' place is definitely within the hands of the people who'd enjoy it most - if you like any aspect of the horror genre, there is something here for you.
I've really come to appreciate them over the last few years, and I think that has a lot to do with a greater understanding and appreciation for different forms of expression. For a story not being a linear, structured, logical thing of a to b to c and all those letters mean exactly what they say. The short story is an art form, and the more I delve in, the more enamored I am.
All this lead up to say, Not All Monsters is the epitome of what I'm looking for in a short these days. This is an incredible antho of wide ranging tones, themes, elements and content. I got lost in each individual world, achingly constructed with deft skill by a TOC of strong writers. No matter how short a time I spent in the pages of each world, that world was complete, the characters real and the tapestry rich. I got pulled in from the very first story, Portrait of a Girl in Red and Yellow by Joanna Royce. The pacing was perfect, the story intriguing, and the ending was satisfyingly horrific. Each story that followed kept the promise of the first - this is a strong antho from beginning to end, and I'd expect no less from the powerhouse of lyrical horror who is Sara Tantlinger.
What a perfectly satisfying line up. What a gorgeous symphony of monstrous voices. You won't find two in here that are alike, but each holds the note and carries it throughout. Stand out favorites included Black Feathered Phlogiston by K.P. Kulski, Inked by E.E. Florence, Midnight in the Garden of Life and Death by Kayleigh Barber, Pretty Little Vampires by Sam Fleming (what a fun, aesthetic departure), Without a Face by Hailey Piper, The Revenge of Madeline Usher by Joanna Koch, and The Sugar Cane Sea by Juliana Spink Mills.
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