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