Monster Lairs

A Dark Fantasy Horror Anthology

By L. P. Hernandez, Emily Ruth Verona, Ai Jiang, and more

2024

First Published

3.17

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Number of Pages

0H01M

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31 Brand-New Dark Fantasy Horror Stories. Bloody corridors of ancient rock. A castle surrounded by poisonous thorns. A lost temple of traps and corpses. A subaqueous cave at the bottom of a cursed lake. These are the places where secrets are buried, where ancient evils are summoned, where beasts are imprisoned, where the insane lie in wait. These are tombs of darkness and nightmare, where if you stare into the abyss, the abyss will stare back. Heed the warnings of your elders and return from whence you came. Ahead lie monster lairs. Stories Fatima Abdullahi, J. W. Allen, R. F. Anding, Michael Boulerice, Kevin M. Casin, Kaitlin Caul, Lyndsey Croal, Marie Croke, Koji A. Dae, Oleander Dudek, Victor Forna, L. P. Hernandez, Jordan Hirsch, Andrew Leon Hudson, Vanessa Jae, Ai Jiang, Wailana Kalama, Alex Langer, Rajiv Moté, Leah Ning, Damilola Oyedotun, Zachary Rosenberg, Abhijeet Sathe, Jean Strickland, Kanishk Tantia, Gretchen Tessmer, V. F. Thompson, D. Matthew Urban, Emily Ruth Verona, Carson Winter, Lucy ZhangEdited by Anna Madden. Introduction by Anna Madden. Cover art by Olly Jeavons.

Avg Rating

3.17

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17%

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17%

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Authors

Emily Ruth Verona received her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Cinema Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase. In 2014 she won the Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. She is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, a Jane Austen Short Story Award Finalist, and a Luke Bitmead Bursary Finalist. Previous publication credits include fiction and poetry featured in several anthologies as well as magazines such as The Pinch, Lamplight Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Black Telephone Magazine, The Ghastling, and Nightmare Magazine. Her essays/articles have appeared online for Tor, Bookbub, Litro, BUST, and Bloody Women. In 2023, she founded the horror book blog Frightful. Her novel, Midnight on Beacon Street, will be published by Harper Perennial in 2024. She lives in New Jersey with a very small dog.

Ai Jiang

Author · 13 books

Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, a Nebula-, Locus-, Ignyte Award finalist, and an immigrant from Fujian. She is a member of HWA, SFWA, and Codex. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, Uncanny, among others. She is the recipient of Odyssey Workshop's 2022 Fresh Voices Scholarship and the author of Linghun and I AM AI. Find her on Twitter (@AiJiang_) and online (http://aijiang.ca).

Anna Madden is a Rhysling Award nominated poet. Her fiction has appeared in Apex, Haven Spec, Small Wonders, and elsewhere.