Novus Monstrum

by Douglas Gwyilym (Editor), Ken Macgregor (Editor)

Overview

This may look like just a book, but NOVUS MONSTRUM could infect your brain, shake your sense of what's real, change you forever. This is twenty-two all-original new monster tales from the greats: Jonathan Maberry, Joe R. Lansdale, Gabino Iglesias, Gemma Files, Gaby Triana, Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Thomas, Gwendolyn Kiste, and Lucy A. Snyder, plus thirteen stories from new names (see below) destined to become some of your favorite authors.
These monsters are never-before-seen. These monsters bite, and don't let go. These monsters aren't your grandparents' boogeymen, but they are not tame, and they want to climb right down into your nightmares and make you their own.
Welcome to the new anthology series The Midnight Zone.
Ken MacGregor, editor of the Shirley-Jackson-Award-nominated anthology Stitched Lips and the uproarious Burnt Fur, teamed up with Bram-Stoker-Award-nominated short story author Douglas Gwilym, editor of Appetites and Harmony & Dissonance, to take you to strange and dark new places. They'll ask you to go deeper and weirder than The Twilight Zone, to a place (like the real-world midnight zone, a mile beneath the ocean's surface) where no sunlight penetrates. Join us as we explore the inhospitable, surprising, uncomfortable, bizarre, and otherworldly.
Go on. Dive in. Lose yourself to The Midnight Zone.
Also Featuring: Amanda M. Blake Joshua Bartolome Matt Brandenburg R.A. Busby Marco Cultrera E.C. Dorgan Douglas Ford Sarah Hans
Jamie Lackey Donna J.W. Munro Frank Oreto
Tim Pieraccini
Pris Sears
With an introduction by the amazing Jamie Flanagan, screenwriter for Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, Creepshow, and Fall of the House of Usher, and original cover art by the astonishing Trevor Henderson, internet cult phenomenon, creator of Siren Head, and weaver of monsters!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185642191
Publisher:	Dragon's Roost Press
Publication date:	10/10/2023
Series:	The Midnight Zone , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	858 KB

About the Author

Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story author and editor Douglas Gwilym (editor) has also been known to compose a weird fiction rock opera or two. His short story “Poppy’s Poppy” was a !nalist for a Stoker and is being taught as part of the University of Pittsburgh curriculum. His story “Year Six” was recommended by “the venerable queen of horror anthologies” Ellen Datlow for The Best Horror of the Year volume 14. He wants to read to you. See him perform 35 hours of classic Victorian and Edwardian Weird on YouTube, and read his own work on Galactic Terrors and elsewhere. It was his very great pleasure to teach at Alpha Young Writers (a professional writing workshop for teens) with N.K. Jemison and Mary Robinette Kowal, and to introduce his beloved home city as moderator of the opening panel of StokerCon 2023, You Can’t Get There From Here: Tales of Weird Pittsburgh. He’s edited four of the Triangulation anthologies: Beneath the Surface, Appetites, Harmony & Dissonance, and Dark Skies, and is co-editor of The Midnight Zone, including issue 1, Novus Monstrum, which you hold in your hand. He lives with the visual artist Debra Tomson Williams and their daughter, The Creature, in an undisclosed location in the inner- city woods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Read his work in LampLight, Lucent Dreaming, Dark Horses, Penumbric Speculative, and Tales from
the Moonlit Path, or listen at Bloody Disgusting’s CREEPY podcast or Tales to Terrify.
Ken MacGregor (editor) has written three story collections, an award- winning young adult novella (Devil’s Bane), and has co-authored a novel (Headcase). He is a member of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers and an active member of the Horror Writers Association. He’s also written TV and radio commercials, sketch comedy, a music video, a one-act play, a scattering of poems, and a zombie movie. Ken has curated two original anthologies, one of which (Stitched Lips) was a !nalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. This, his third anthology, Novus Monstrum, was co-edited with Douglas Gwilym. It is the first installment in the Midnight Zone series for Dragon’s Roost Press. Ken is also a part-time literary assassin: he will write you into an original short story and kill you for money.
Ken drives the bookmobile and lives with his kids, two cats, and the ashes of his wife.
He can be found at www.kenmacgregor.com.