Table of Contents: THE HUMANITY OF MONSTERS edited by Michael Matheson

In September, ChiZine will publish The Humanity of Monsters edited by Michael Matheson, and including stories by Neil Gaiman, Kaaron Warren, Catherynne M. Valente, and many more.

Through the work of twenty-six writers, emerging to award-winning, The Humanity of Monsters plumbs the depths of humane monsters, monstrous humans, and the interstices between:

Monstrous heralds of change, the sight of whom only children can survive. Monsters born of the battlefield, in gunfire and frost and blood, clothed in too-familiar flesh. Monsters, human and otherwise, born of fear, and love, and retribution all, wrapped tight and inextricable one from the other: the Fallen outside of time, lovers and monsters in borrowed skin, creatures from beyond the stars, and humans who have travelled to them.

In stories by turns surreal, sublime, brutal, and haunting, there are no easy answers to be found. Only the surety that though there be monsters, you will name them false. And when you meet those who truly are, you will not know them.

Here’s the table of contents (and a bigger cover below):

1. “Tasting Gomoa” by Chinelo Onwualu
2. “Dead Sea Fruit” by Kaaron Warren
3. “The Bread We Eat in Dreams” by Catherynne M. Valente
4. “The Emperor’s Old Bones” by Gemma Files
5. “The Things” by Peter Watts
6. “muo-ka’s Child” by Indrapramit Das
7. “Six” by Leah Bobet
8. “The Nazir” by Sofia Samatar
9. “A Handful of Earth” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
10. “In Winter” by Sonya Taaffe
11. “Ghostweight” by Yoon Ha Lee
12. “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” by Neil Gaiman
13. “Night They Missed the Horror Show” by Joe Lansdale
14. “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky
15. “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream” by Maria Dahvana Headley
16. “The Horse Latitudes” by Sunny Moraine
17. “Boyfriend and Shark” by Berit Ellingsen
18. “Never the Same” by Polenth Blake
19. “Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
20. “Proboscis” by Laird Barron
21. “Out They Come” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
22. “and Love shall have no Dominion” by Livia Llewellyn
23. “You Go Where It Takes You” by Nathan Ballingrud
24. “Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” by A.C. Wise
25. “Theories of Pain” by Rose Lemberg
26. “Terrible Lizards” by Meghan McCarron

Book info as per Amazon US [Also available via Amazon UK]:

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: ChiZine (September 15, 2015)
• ISBN-10: 1771483598
• ISBN-13: 978-1771483599