Monsters Of The Human Kind

A new collection of Horror and Scifi thrillers. Inside Monsters of the Human Kind: • “Mr. Harbison’s Boy,” is a tale of inner-city kids getting into the worst trouble of their young lives. • Though written and published in the anthology DeathGrip 3 before the 2016 election, “The Human Kind” is a story that might describe what many of us are feeling these days when we look into the eyes of people we thought we knew. • “Teratoid,” first published in CyberPulp’s F/SF, takes place in a transgenic research lab on the moon just as--you guessed it--an experiment goes horribly awry. • In “Secret Destroyer,” a paleontologist at an Arizona dig uncovers an ancient mystery that is perhaps more than just fossilized bones. • “The Rivers Are Gods” character Alex McHugh muses that “at the feet of the gods play the sprites and the demons,” and the lustful Scotsman certainly knows something about demons! “Rivers” was originally published in NFG Magazine. • And finally, if you ever wondered what it would be like to play music in a 1970s funk band, “Tonton Macoute” may give you an idea. “Then again,” the author says, “the guys I worked with hardly ever had to face something out of the black pit of time’s beginnings.” This novelette was first published by Sally Tomasevic in Transversions 10 under the title “An Eating,” and was later expanded into a novella for Raechel Henderson Moon in Jintsu Electronic Texts. The stories contain mature themes, and the last three in the collection depict sexual situations. “Tonton Macoute,” in particular, is for grown-ass men and women only. A consistent theme underlies much of Bill Allan’s work, and when people will listen he has been known to warn them outright, “Monsters are real, as real as we are real; in truth, sometimes we are the monsters.”

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