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From the best horror editor in the business comes a landmark horror anthology. Take a terrifying journey with literary masters of suspense, visiting a place where the other is somehow one of us. These electrifying tales redefine monsters from mere things that go bump in the night to inexplicable, deadly reflections of our day-to-day lives. Whether it’s a seemingly devoted teacher, an obsessive devotee of swans, or a diner full of evil creatures simply seeking oblivion, the monstrous is always there—and much closer than it appears.

Introduction
“A Natural History of Autumn” by Jeffrey Ford
“Ashputtle” by Peter Straub
“Giants in the Earth” by Dale Bailey
“The Beginning of the Year Without Summer” by Caitlín R. Kiernan
“A Wish From a Bone” by Gemma Files
“The Last, Clean, Bright Summer” by Livia Llewellyn
“The Totals” by Adam-Troy Castro
“The Chill Clutch of the Unseen” by Kim Newman
“Down Among the Dead Men” by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
“Catching Flies” by Carole Johnstone
“Our Turn Too Will One Day Come” by Brian Hodge
“Grindstone” by Stephen Graham Jones
“Doll Hands” by Adam L. G. Nevill
“How I Met the Ghoul” by Sofia Samatar
“Jenny Come to Play” by Terry Dowling
“Miss Ill-Kept Runt” by Glen Hirshberg
“Chasing Sunset” by A.C. Wise
“The Monster Makers” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“Piano Man” by Christopher Fowler
“Corpsemouth” by John Langan

THE MONSTROUS rises from the depths in October.

For more on THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story.

May 6, 2015

Award winning editor Ellen Datlow reveals the tales of THE MONSTROUS

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Award winning editor Ellen Datlow shared the table of contents for her terrifying new anthology THE MONSTROUS.

A Natural History of Autumn by Jeffrey Ford

Ashputtle by Peter Straub

Giants in the Earth by Dale Bailey

The Beginning of the Year Without Summer by Caitlín R. Kiernan

A Wish From a Bone by Gemma Files

The Last, Clean, Bright Summer by Livia Llewellyn

The Totals by Adam-Troy Castro

The Chill Clutch of the Unseen by Kim Newman

Down Among the Dead Men by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Catching Flies by Carole Johnstone

Our Turn Too Will One Day Come by Brian Hodge

Grindstone by Stephen Graham Jones

Doll Hands by Adam L. G. Nevill

How I Met the Ghoul by Sofia Samatar

Jenny Come to Play by Terry Dowling

Miss Ill-Kept Runt by Glen Hirshberg

Chasing Sunset by A.C. Wise

The Monster Makers by Steve Rasnic Tem

Piano Man by Christopher Fowler

Corpsemouth by John Langan (original to the anthology)

THE MONSTROUS rises from the depths in October.

For more on THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story.

February 24, 2015

Catch the first glimpse of Reiko Murakami’s cover for Ellen Datlow’s new anthology THE MONSTROUS

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Though not due out until October, we just had to share the beautiful and creepy Reiko Murakami cover to Ellen Datlow’s new anthology THE MONSTROUS.

For more on THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story.

September 16, 2014

THE MADONNA AND THE STARSHIP is a wild, over-the-top farce

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In the May, 2014 issue of Sci-Fi Magazine, Adam-Troy Castro praised James Morrow’s The Madonna and the Starship.

One of the field’s more mordant satirists here puts his more pessimistic side on the shelf and dispenses his usual irreverence toward religion in a wild, over-the-top farce. The setting is 1953 Manhattan. Young science fiction writer Kurt Jastrow has left the pulps for the more lucrative field of television, scripting BROCK BARTON AND HIS ROCKET RANGERS and hosting a science spinoff, UNCLE WONDER’S ATTIC. It turns out that both have earned him fans among the extraterrestrial Qualimosians, who give him a prize for his efforts: a fine honor that turns threatening when he realizes that the squid-like beings are at war with religion back on the home world, and will upon the inevitable discovery that humans possess the same thing will use a death ray on the viewers of the inspirational program that follows his. The problem: how to keep the aliens occupied while he and a growing army of allies write a script for a show that will not only comfort the alien visitors with blasphemy, but also forever stop them from bringing their conflict to Earth?

This is a slim novel, that once it starts, never stops racing, Complications abound, lunacy predominates, the aliens are kept distracted and the world is saved with a broadcast that surely would have made viewer heads explode in 1953.

Read the rest of Castro’s review in the May issue of Sci-Fi Magazine.

For more on The Madonna and the Starship, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover and design by Elizabeth Story.

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Reviewers, bloggers, and librarians get a copy of Ellen Datlow’s new anthology THE MONSTROUS

Review copies of award-winning, superstar editor Ellen Datlow’s new anthology THE MONSTROUS are now available via NetGalley.

THE MONSTROUS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Award winning editor Ellen Datlow reveals the tales of THE MONSTROUS

Catch the first glimpse of Reiko Murakami’s cover for Ellen Datlow’s new anthology THE MONSTROUS

THE MADONNA AND THE STARSHIP is a wild, over-the-top farce