#monster books

[thecreaturecodex]

May I ask what reference materials you have at your disposal?

This list includes only books about monsters that I own and have used for the Codex at some point. It does not include books I've gotten from libraries (I have access to an excellent university library and one of the best public library systems in the country), nor does it include RPG books or books about science and nature. We'd be here all day, and this list already took like 90 minutes to collate.

A Field Guide to the Little People—Arrowsmiths and Moore Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials; Barlowe’s Guide to Fantasy—Barlowe The Dictionary of Demons—Belanger Monsters in Print—Benedict Ghosts Monsters and Demons of India—Bhairav and Khonna The Mwindo Epic—Biebuyck and Mateene, ed. The Beast of Boggy Creek; Momo—Blackburn Bigfoot: Life and Times of a Legend—Buhs The Hidden—Christopher and Austin The Unexplained!—Clark Ghostland; The Unidentified—Dickey Prehistoric Monster Mash; Dinosaur Memories II—Debus After Man; The New Dinosaurs; Man After Man—Dixon Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology—Eberhart Welsh Monsters and Mythical Beasts—Ellis The Book of Yokai; Pandemonium and Parade—Foster Encounters With Flying Humanoids—Gerhard The Leprechaun’s Kingdom—Haining Meeting With Monsters—Hlioberg and Aegisson Dragons—Hogarth and Cleary Monster Atlas Volume 1—Hyland and Kay The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials—Hyughe Bestiarium Greenlandica—Kreutzmann Evil in Our Midst—Jones The Natural History of Unicorns—Lavers Legends of the Fire Spirits—Lebling Travels to the Otherworld and Fantastic Realms—Lecouteaux and Lecouteaux Cowboys and Saurians 1 and 2—Lemay Medieval Monsters—Lindquist and Mittman The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures—Matthews and Matthews The Night Parade of 100 Demons; The Hour of Meeting Evil Spirits; The Book of the Hakutaku; The Fox’s Wedding—Meyer Hunting Monsters—Naish Cryptozoologicon Volume 1—Naish, Koseman and Conway Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology—Newton The United States of Cryptids—Ocker Chasing American Monsters—Ofutt Iberian Monsters—Prado The Creatures of Philippine Mythology—Ramos A Wizard’s Bestiary—Ravenheart Giants, Monsters and Dragons; Spirits, Faeries, Leprechauns and Goblins—Rose The Encyclopedia of Monsters—Rovin Bad UFOs—Schaeffer JaPandemonium Illustrated—Sekien, translated by Yoda and Alt Dragons: A Natural History; A Manifestation of Monsters; The Beasts that Hide from Man; Flying Toads and Snakes with Wings; Extraordinary Animals Revisited; Mirabilis; A Menagerie of Marvels; The UneXplained—Shuker Dangerous Spirits—Smallman Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginies—Smith Monsters of the Gevaudan—Smith A Chinese Bestiary—Strassberg Mummies Cannibals and Vampires—Sugg The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters—Weinstock, ed. Mythical Creatures of the USA and Canada—Wyman The World of Kong—Weta Workshop Mystery Animals of China—Xu

Appearing on this list does not necessarily constitute a recommendation. Carol Rose's books, for example, has a lot of gaps and are responsible for a number of myths and misconceptions that have circulated around the internet. And A Wizard's Bestiary by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart is more worthwhile as a curiosity than as reference material.

There are a lot of internet sources, of course, but I'm linking my top choices. If you're not already aware of A Book of Creatures and Yokai.com, you need to be.

#long post #housekeeping #mythology #folklore #monster books #cryptozoology

[demi-shoggoth]

2023 Reading Log pt. 4

March was hard for me, both in terms of my personal life and in terms of my reading. I started a whole bunch of books that I haven't finished. Some of them I intend to come back to (two monster books, one for RPGs and one reference book). The ones I intentionally gave up on are listed here, as well as the whys of why I gave up on them.

16. Bestiarium Greenlandica, edited by Maria Bach Kreutzmann. Recommended to me a while ago by @abominationimperatrixx, but I have only been able to get a copy recently. This is the second edition, put out by Eye of Newt Press, which seems to specialize in publishing monster books with previously limited print runs (they also have an edition of Welsh Monsters and Mythical Beasts by C G J Ellis, for example). This book is an A-Z look at mythical creatures from Greenland, which entails a peek at traditional Thule culture. Anggakutt (the equivalent of shamans) use various monstrous spirits to guide them through the spiritual realm and work wonders for them, and these have to be negotiated with or even battled in order to recruit them. So there’s plenty of monsters, many of which are very obscure in English language sources, or confused with other creatures from other Inuit cultures. The book has illustrations for most of the monsters, some line drawings and some full color paintings. All of the art is great, and it doesn’t shy away from the sex and violence in the myths. So a trigger warning is at play if dead and decaying fetus monsters, ghouls with giant penises, or all manner of grotesque facial features are not your thing. But if you’re okay with those, this book is highly recommended.

17.  Bog Bodies Uncovered by Miranda Aldhouse-Green. This book looks at the various bodies that have been discovered in peat bogs throughout northern Europe, and is primarily concerned with why these people were killed and placed in the bog. After a discussion of the history of finding bog bodies, and about the nature of bogs and how the tannins contribute to preservation, the book is primarily a forensic investigation. Its ultimate thesis is that most of the bog bodies represent intentional human sacrifices by Celtic and Germanic people. The author does a good job of supporting that claim, although her extrapolations and speculations go a little far for my taste (especially when she conjectures that the Lindow Man was sacrificed because of a specific battle written about by the Romans). The book features a mix of black and white photos and illustrations with color plates, which is always appreciated for a book about physical artifacts.

17a. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. I gave up on this one around the halfway point—much longer than I typically go into a book I decide not to finish. That’s because I really wanted to like this one, but couldn’t. The subject is how queer history has often been sanitized and gay historical figures made saintly, when in reality there were plenty of unremarkable and some downright evil gay people as well. The book also wants to aim a giant fuck you at respectability politics, arguing for radical queer liberation and that the current state of gay representation is rooted in capitalism and patriarchy. It also also wants to make snarky quips about gay kings and military leaders—this is a very distant priority. I agree with the book’s politics in the broad sense, and there’s just enough quips and history to have kept me interested this long, but the overall feel of the book is very preachy, and not actually that interested in the lives of the individual subjects. There are ways to make a book both stridently anti-capitalist and an entertaining read, and this one fails.

17b. How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler. I stopped this one a few pages into the second chapter. I was looking for a book about marine life and fun facts, and this has that, but is interwoven with personal memoir and is much heavier on the memoir. The first chapter is about how goldfish are stunted in fishbowls, but can grow to enormous sizes in the wild and can act as an invasive species. And this is contrasted with the author feeling stifled by small town life and realizing that they’re queer upon growing up. That was fine, but the second chapter draws connections between how mother octopuses starve themselves watching over eggs, and the generational eating disorders that the author and their mother dealt with. My mood couldn’t handle that. Maybe I’ll come back to this book when I’m in a more secure mental place, but I didn’t feel like crying while reading again. Not for a while—I think my allotment is one sad book a year.

18. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire. This feels like a companion volume to Mary Roach’s Fuzz. Both books are about how humans behave when animals get in their way, but Fuzz deals more with the humans and Pests deals more with the animals. There’s lots of evolution and ecology material here, including very recent research, like the possible link between the evolution of house mice and the contents of their gut flora, and a modern look at how Australia’s ecosystems are reacting to and coping with the introduction of cane toads. This book is much more the balance of science to personal experience that I was looking for right now, and I had a good time with this one.

19. Ancient Sea Reptiles by Darren Naish. I’ve been looking forward to this book since it was first announced, so I’m happy to report that it’s as good as I was hoping. The book discusses Mesozoic marine reptiles (with some guest appearances from Permian taxa, like mesosaurs). First, it goes through the history of their discovery and some overview of their anatomy, physiology and evolutionary relationships. Then, it goes through the clades. Ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, marine crocodiles and sea turtles get their own chapter, and all the other groups, from weird Triassic one-offs to sea snakes, are compiled into a single chapter. Naish is one of my favorite science writers, as he combines a phylogeny-centric approach for an appreciation of the novelties and weirdness of specific genera. I would love it if he wrote a similar book about another group for which books for educated laypeople are thin on the ground, like stem crocodiles or non-mammalian synapsids.

20. Effin’ Birds by Aaron Reynolds. This is the book form of a Twitter feed, which I appreciate from a historical perspective. The feed, and the book, have two main jokes. One, pictures of birds with profanity as captions. Two, faux descriptions of bird behavior and habitats that are jokes about common types of unpleasant people, or people who avoid unpleasant people. I got a few laughs out of it, but I’m glad that I got this book from a library and would not pay money for it. The funniest thing about this book to me is that that selfsame library put it with the books about bird biology and field guides, when there is zero informational content in this book, combined with the book itself making a joke about how you’d never find this book in a library.

#reading log #what are birds #twitter #marine reptiles #paleontology #cladistics #pests #invasive species #biology #marine biology #memoir #gay history #lgtbq history #european history #bog bodies #monster books #greenland #greenland folklore #inuit folklore

[knowledge-n-crap]

I want guillermo del toro to direct all my favorit monster/paranormal smut books 💀🔥

#guillermo del toro #smut #monsters #monster smut #bookish #paranormal books #monster books

[angelltheninth]

Officially started working on my monster romance novella!

I've got... 679 words so far. They haven't met yet. I need to get to the smut but I gotta do... worldbuilding and shit. I don't even know how much I should put in a novella, probably not a ton.

#monster boyfriend #monster love #monster books #sleep paralysis demon book #original writing #original story #novella

[infrequent-creator]

Y’all ok I’ve been getting into audio books lately 👀 and literally by pure coincidence, these two books literally have tickling mentioned & actually happens in the 2nd book ahhh

But fair warning. The first book is very much 🌽 with a plot. The 2nd one is a little more plot but there’s still a lot of 🌶️ in the book. Mentions of doing the do & lots of vulgar / lude actions.

Look up stuff on BookTok or read the reviews. Absolutely amaziiing 💜💜💜💜 lots of possessive monster men who love their mates 🙈

#tickle community #tickle #monster tickle #tickle monster #books #monster books #romance monster books

[bn-brightflower]

Accepting Book Reccs

I have extremely varied tastes and not many triggers when it comes to fiction. Not all kinks are my kink but if it fits the characters I'm down for most, if not all. I am a fan of fluffy romance and dark romance both, as long as they are properly advertised as such and it's not a massive surprise. I also do not have any type of monster (or alien, or cryptid, or god) that I'm unwilling to try out. Please, hit me with your best shot.

Disclaimer: all ratings and opinions given are entirely personal.

I will not list or rate books I do not finish, because I feel it's unfair. I will not review a book that I have nothing nice to say about; writing is a lot of work and a labor of love. I will not tolerate bullying or bashing. Each review will have a link to purchase the book or download it with Kindle Unlimited.

Click a title to be taken to my review. It will take time for me to catch up, but consider this a masterpost. Triggers will be listed, but I may miss some. I'm human. Please don't hesitate to DM me if you have specific triggers you're trying to avoid and are interested in a book on my read list.

Books I've read:

A Soul To Keep (Duskwalker Brides series) by Opal Reyne ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Love & Monsters by Raven Flanagan ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

His Darkest Craving by Tiffany Roberts ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Escaping Wonderland by Tiffany Roberts ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Beast by Jenika Snow ⭐️⭐️/5

Ensnared (A Spider's Mate series) by Tiffany Roberts ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Enthralled (A Spider's Mate series) by Tiffany Roberts ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Bound (A Spider's Mate series) by Tiffany Roberts ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Kiss of the Necromancer (Momento Mori series) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Dreams of the Necromancer (Momento Mori series) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Tales of the Necromancer (Momento Mori series) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Viper: Naga Brides Book 1 by Naomi Lucas ⭐️⭐️/5

The Kraken: Book 1 - 7 by Tiffany Roberts ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

A Soul To Heal (Duskwalker Brides series) by Opal Reyne ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Dragon's Bride (A Deal With A Demon series) by Katee Robert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Kraken's Sacrifice (A Deal With A Demon series) by Katee Robert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Stalked by the Kraken (Monstrous Matches series) by Lillian Lark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Luxuria: A Monster Romance by Colette Rhodes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

King of Flesh and Bone (The Pale Court series) by Liv Zander ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Queen of Rot and Pain (The Pale Court series) by Liv Zander ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Radiance (Wraith Kings series) by Grace Draven ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Eidolon (Wraith Kings series) by Grace Draven ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Unseelie Prince (Maze of Shadows series) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Unseelie Crown (Maze of Shadows series) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Unseelie Throne (Maze of Shadows series) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Unseelie King (Maze of Shadows series) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Court of Blood and Bindings (Fae Isles series) by Lisette Marshall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Lord of Gold and Glory (Fae Isles series) by Lisette Marshall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Ruins of Seas and Souls (Fae Isles Series) by Lisette Marshall ⭐⭐⭐/5

Blood & Vows by K. Easton ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Court of Ravens and Ruins (Brides of Fae and Mist series) by Eliza Raine ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Her Soul To Take by Harley Laroux (Souls Trilogy) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Her Soul For Revenge by Harley Laroux (Souls Trilogy) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Invoking the Blood by Kalista Neith ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Wolf and The Wildflower by Ella Fields ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Of Mist and Shadow (The Mist King series) by Jenna Wolfhart ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Of Ash and Embers (The Mist King series) by Jenna Wolfhart ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Land of the Beautiful Dead by R. Lee Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Books already on my list:

The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith

The Weaver by Tiffany Roberts (not yet published)

#book reccs #monster books #monster/human #monster fuckers #monster fucker books #monster romance books #alien romance #alien/human #fae romance #high fantasy romance #meta

[thegirlandthewardrobe]

A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne

~5/5⭐️

Let it be known that from here on out, I will forever and always have a thing for monsters. I loved everything about this book you guys, like everything. I loved the world, I loved the characters, I loved the writing, everything. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve read something that wasn’t an RH book, but this book reminded me what I’ve been missing out on. Reia was such a strong and unique character, and Opheaus(there’s a 98% chance this is spelled wrong) was so god DAMN SWEET, it was actually crazy. Strong willed FMC, monster MMC, forced companionship, and demons???? Sign me tf up🤞🏾And the spice y’all??? TOP TIER. I was worried that with this technically being a stand alone(although there are other books in the series that feature different characters) I’d be stuck waiting until the last 75 pages to get my 🌶️🌶️🌶️ , but that was NOT the case. The spicy scenes were soooo well done, it’s actually crazy. Plus, there’s actually a plot! Thanking the Goddesses above for this one😘 On to book two!

As Always,

Happy Reading❤️

#book reviews #books #book blog #book recs #book recommendations #book suggestions #fantasy books #romance books #goodreads #fiction books #books to read #tbr #booktok #a soul to keep #opal reyne #monster books #pnr #paranormal romance

[adorablecrab]

Reading a book on sea monsters on ancient maps and I thought this was such a funny way to put it. They couldn’t even afford sea monsters :///

#blabla #the book is sea monsters on medieval and renaissance maps by chet van duzer

[c-herondale]

Obsessed with how Annabeth isn't spacial, she isn't a chosen one, she has no demigod magic powers, she is for all intents and purposes, a fairly normal girl.

But she poured her blood, sweat and tears into becoming the best warrior she could be. She trained hard for years because she knew she had disadvantages and she didn't want to be seen as weak.

She's literally known in Camp and by monsters like Alecto as the most powerful demigod alive and she doesn't have powers. It's almost as of girls don't need to be magical to be a hero!

#annabeth chase is That Bitch #annabeth chase #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percabeth #athena cabin #pjo #pjo series #pjo spoilers #pjo tv show #pjo books #annabeth #percy and annabeth #annabeth pjo #annabeth percy jackson #leah is our annabeth #lightning thief #sea of monsters #titans curse #battle of the labyrinth #last olympian #heroes of olympus #lost hero #son of neptune #mark of athena #house of hades #luke castellan #grover underwood #daughter of athena #percy jackson series

[counting-stars-gayly]

MEDUSA WASN’T A MONSTER BECAUSE SHE HAD SNAKES FOR HAIR BUT BECAUSE SHE HURT PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T DESERVE IT LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

#not everyone who looks like a hero is a hero and not everyone who looks like a monster is a monster!!!!! #they’re not just sticking to the core theme of the books; they’re ENHANCING the message!!! #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #percy jackson disney+ #disney percy jackson #disney pjo #rick riordan #medusa #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians

[proteidaes]

Happy to reveal my full piece for the Artsy Friends GROWTH art book! 🐉🌳 My piece was inspired by Peridexion Trees and the dragons associated with them.

🌷GROWTH is live now!!🌷 This is a collaboration artbook featuring whimsy illustrations from 19 artists, all themed around the word "growth"! If you're interested in snagging a copy you can find all the details here! 👀📚

#art book #collabs #art #illustration #cute #colorful #growth #books #artists on tumblr #monsters #trees #dragons #artsy friends #medieval #Peridexion tree #dragon tree

[demi-shoggoth]

2022 Reading Log pt. 21

101. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. This book covers mammalian evolution throughout synapsid history, starting in the Carboniferous and ending in the present day. There’s a lot of good information in here, both about the species themselves and the history of their discovery and discoverers. But I found the authorial voice consistently off-putting. Brusatte writes about evolution alternately like a war or a poker game, and there are constant references to dominating, beating or tricking other lineages, particularly dinosaurs. After crowing about how mammals survived and thrived in the Mesozoic by exploiting small body sizes and niches like eating seeds and insects, he dismisses all of bird evolution (which in the Cenozoic did the same thing) in a paragraph, and never talks about Cenozoic animals other than mammals at all. What’s weird is I don’t remember his previous book, The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs, being so mercilessly jingoistic about its focus clade. Maybe the publisher told him to write more enthusiastically about a “less exciting” group; maybe it’s the zeal of the newly converted (Brusatte was primarily a dinosaur paleontologist until relatively recently); maybe the first book was this annoyingly written and I have forgotten.

102. The Accidental Ecosystem by Peter S. Alagona. This book is a short overview about how wild animals have moved into American cities, why American cities developed into places where animals can thrive, how humans are reacting to these and how we should in the future. The tone is generally optimistic but realistic—that cities can serve as oases of biodiversity during climate change and extinction events, but a world with only rats, crows and sparrows would be a depauperate one. Most of the book is organized around an incident of some charismatic megafauna making the news (like Pedals the bipedal bear of New Jersey, or a nesting pair of bald eagles blithely feeding their chicks fresh kitten), and then talking about that species in greater context. I’ve read several other books recently about human/animal interactions, and this one did the best job at being inclusive, talking about how parks can and have been used as agents of gentrification, the impact of economic decisions on the fate of cities and animals alike, and existing biases within ecology and evolutionary studies. Highly recommended.

103. Travels to the Otherworld and other Fantastic Realms, edited by Claude and Corinne Lecouteux, translated by Jon E. Graham. This is a collection of medieval European fantastic literature, although not all of it is necessarily fantasy in the modern sense. Some are religious visions, others historical fantasies, others excerpts from novels and folk tales. All of them are wild. Both as a look into the medieval mindset and for their various bizarre creatures and occurrences. Some highlights include multiple versions of the adventures of Alexander the Great, the Vision of Tundale, a German journey through Hell that’s much gnarlier than anything in Dante, and the adventures of Marcolf, the Sherlock Holmes to King Solomon’s Watson (!). Also highly recommended; this might be the most fun I’ve had with a book this year.

104. Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow. Just what it says on the cover. The book starts with trepanations of cavemen and progresses to the modern era. Rutkow follows the Great Man school of history, and many of the chapters are biographical sketches of a surgeon who was important in developing the field. It feels somewhat incomplete—not only are non-surgical advances in medicine basically ignored, the development of the modern American insurance state is glossed over, even as the book discusses how hospitals became prestigious institutions and surgeons very wealthy. The book also uses weird kennings, as if it were written by an Icelandic skald—surgeons are “scalpel wielders” or “students of the knife”, etc, as often as they’re just surgeons. I definitely learned stuff from this book (like the quack “orifical surgery”, which posed that all diseases could be cured by cutting out irregular shapes from the mouth, nose, anus and genital openings!), but found the book rather less than the sum of its parts.

105. Monster Anthropology, edited by Yasmine Musharbash and GH Presterudstuen. This is a collection of academic essays about monsters as cultural signifiers and participants. After a very good introduction (the Works Cited of which will keep me busy a long while), the bulk of the book looks at particular cultures and particular monsters. The book was published in Australia, and several of the essays are on the same group of Indigenous Australians, the Warlpiri, and their monsters (most of which have not penetrated Western consciousness, but the pankarlangu is starting to make some inroads). One minor note I found interesting—there’s an actual folkloric monster that fits the D&D concept of a rakshasa! The tepun of the Eastern Penan people in Borneo is a shapeshifting hedonist that has aspects of humans and tigers.

106. Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance by Elise Vernon Pearlstine. Gave up on 50 pages in. The book purports to be a natural history—what molecules are made by what plants, why, and how those plants live. The actual contents contain some of that, but much more cultural histories. I’ve read and enjoyed several books about the cultural history of plants recently, so I’m not inherently opposed to the concept. But the book is incredibly poorly organized. The narrative skips back and forth through time and space and species, words are used and then defined several pages later as if it’s the first time we’re seeing them, concepts will be repeated multiple times to the point of redundancy, and the preface and introduction contain the exact same sentences, twice! The fact that this book was published in this state is frankly embarrassing.

#reading log #bad books #botany #cultural history #paleontology #stem mammals #prehistoric mammals #anthropology #monster books #surgery #medical history #european folklore #medieval folklore #ecology #urban ecology

[lucidloving]

@heavensghost // Erin Moran, "940 Main Street" // Jason Schneiderman, "Little Red Riding Wolf" // @mah_hirano on tw // Adrienne Rich, "Planetarium" // Richard Siken, Editor's Pages: Black Telephone // Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken my Body: Essays // @loputyn // Mason O'Hern, "You Are Not Just Anything" // Friedrich Nietzsche, Good and Evil

#theme: a woman in the shape of a monster #web weaving #web weave #webs #poetry #prose #aesthetic #prose poetry #literature #art #book quotes #novels #books #novel quotes #essays #quotes #words #writing #inspo #compilation #parallels #on womanhood #on femininity #femininity #womanhood #illustration #richard siken #friedrich nietzsche #nietzche #poems

[angelltheninth]

I wrote a 5 page bulletpoint outline for my Sleep Paralysis Demon novella. I think I can actually write it pretty quickly because I've been brainstorming this since last year. The problem is... literally everything else that goes into publishing a book, especially not one of the monster fucking genre.

#monster boyfriend #monster love #monster books #monster x human #monsters #monster lover

[gollancz]

The synopsis says: “It’s the hottest summer on record and London is dying. Prices are high, pay is low, and stressed commuters are packed on to London Underground trains again like the pandemic never happened. To add to the misery, the temperatures underground just keep climbing and climbing, the heat trapped in the clay with nowhere to go. 

“Five travellers on an unlucky tube carriage find themselves bound together one morning as witnesses to a single horrific event – an event they can’t quite seem to remember. They make an unlikely team: weary tube driver, a disillusioned civil servant, an ambitious city trader, an overwhelmed hotel worker and an unhoused young man just trying to get by – but now they must come together to confront what they have seen and stop it in its tracks. Because there’s something lurking in the stifling darkness and labyrinthine tunnels that run below London… something old, something vicious, and something very, very hungry.” 

I couldn't be more excited to be working with @jonnywaistcoat on his next two novels! This is just more of what he does best - pulling apart the very seams of society and giving me very specific new sleep paralysis demons, and somehow getting me to say thank you afterwards.

And if you're near London next month, why not pop along to Gollanczfest to hear him chat all things horror with Joe Hill and V. V. James? Tickets are still available:

#Jonathan Sims #Burnout #Book announcement #Monsters on the Underground #horror fiction #Horror authors

[menagerie-of-monsters]

::looks both ways then sidles over::

Psst I have a big bookshelf of free monsters for ya. ::opens one half of my trenchcoat:: You like werewolves? Vampires? I've got you.

Oh, a person of discerning taste, are you? There's dragons. Gods. Hybrids. I've got you covered.

#monster romance #monster books #not all of these are romance but there's some cool ones in there #plus they're all #free books #so it's not a big commitment #except when it is ;)