THE BOOK OF MONSTERS (Books of Darkness 2)

MONSTERS COME IN EVERY SHAPE AND SIZE. THE BLACK LAKE – It appeared like nothing so much as an obscene length of quivering black ooze. Spread up his arm towards his shoulder. From his shoulder to his face. In an instant, it had filled his eyes. BIRCHIAM PIER – But the creatures were nothing like that. Were like nothing I had ever seen. There was one like a double-armed spiral, like a picture of our galaxy, which revolved as it moved. And another that kept rippling and changing form completely. Yet another seemed to be all tendrils, no centralized body. GONE AWAY BAY – The thing was right underneath me in another moment. And the middle of its damaged face seemed to be turning itself inside out, preparing to envelope me. HEADLAMPS – The thing driving the truck seemed anything but human. It was emaciated beyond belief, its face a mere skull with skin stretched across. The lips and eyelids were torn, rotten, the eyes sunken and glaring madly like hot coals in their pits. UNDER THE ICE – Out at the edge of the ice, something dark appeared, rising from the water and then closing downward on the frozen surface. I squinted. And was sure it was an arm. MONSTERS THAT WERE HUMAN ONCE. MONSTERS THAT WERE NEVER THAT. CREATURES THAT CAN CHANGE THEIR SHAPE AND USE THAT TRICK TO DEVOUR YOU. WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF MONSTERS … AND YOU’LL FIND THE WORST OF THEM RIGHT HERE. 12 STORIES AND A COMPLETE SHORT NOVEL … UNDER THE ICE. “A hell of a writer, one of today’s masters of dark fiction” – Horror World.

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