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League of Monsters
It Takes Monsters to Fight Monsters!
Count Dracula. Frankenstein’s Monster. The Werewolf. The Gill Creature.
You’ve seen various versions of them countless times. But never like this!
It is the 1950s, and a cadre of Nazis known as the Last Reich are plotting to remake the world in their own horrible image.
Moira Harker, the great-great-granddaughter of Mina Harker and the last living member of a secret group of monster hunters known as the Order of Van Helsing, has brought together history’s most frightening creatures to prevent even greater monsters from taking over the world.
Within these pages you’ll
Dracula.
Frankenstein.
A reluctant werewolf.
A gill creature and his beautiful telepathic handler.
These monsters have joined forces and now travel the globe saving the world from an even greater threat.
Join James Palmer (Monster Earth), Russell Nohelty (Ichabod Monster Hunter), Bobby Nash (the Hunter Horror Hunter series ) Teel James Glenn (A Cowboy in A Bob Howard Adventure), Jessica Nettles (The Children of Menlo Park), and Adrian Delgado as they take you where monsters dwell, inside the…
League of Monsters!
stories:
Gods and Monsters
James Palmer
Return to Ebyeog ul-eg
Jessica Nettles
Moon of Destiny
Teel James Glenn
Not Another Haunted House Story
Russell Nohelty
Sanctuary Moon
Bobby Nash
Fear the Queen of Fangs
Adrian G. Delgado
Count Dracula. Frankenstein’s Monster. The Werewolf. The Gill Creature.
You’ve seen various versions of them countless times. But never like this!
It is the 1950s, and a cadre of Nazis known as the Last Reich are plotting to remake the world in their own horrible image.
Moira Harker, the great-great-granddaughter of Mina Harker and the last living member of a secret group of monster hunters known as the Order of Van Helsing, has brought together history’s most frightening creatures to prevent even greater monsters from taking over the world.
Within these pages you’ll
Dracula.
Frankenstein.
A reluctant werewolf.
A gill creature and his beautiful telepathic handler.
These monsters have joined forces and now travel the globe saving the world from an even greater threat.
Join James Palmer (Monster Earth), Russell Nohelty (Ichabod Monster Hunter), Bobby Nash (the Hunter Horror Hunter series ) Teel James Glenn (A Cowboy in A Bob Howard Adventure), Jessica Nettles (The Children of Menlo Park), and Adrian Delgado as they take you where monsters dwell, inside the…
League of Monsters!
stories:
Gods and Monsters
James Palmer
Return to Ebyeog ul-eg
Jessica Nettles
Moon of Destiny
Teel James Glenn
Not Another Haunted House Story
Russell Nohelty
Sanctuary Moon
Bobby Nash
Fear the Queen of Fangs
Adrian G. Delgado
202 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 1, 2023
2 people want to read
About the author
James Palmer
61 books12 followersJames is an author, editor and publisher working in the science fiction, fantasy, and new pulp genres. He has written articles, interviews, reviews, and columns for Tangent Online, Strange Horizons, and The Internet Review of Science Fiction. His work has appeared in the new pulp anthologies Gideon Cain: Demon Hunter, , Mars McCoy Space Ranger vol. 2, and Tales of the Rook vol. 2.
James is also the author of the Lovecraftian noir novella Slow Djinn, Four Terrors: Weird Horror Stories, and editor of the weird western anthology Strange Trails, Robots Unleashed!, and editor and co-creator (with former comics scribe Jim Beard) of the alternate history giant monster anthology series Monster Earth.
A recovering comic book addict, James lives in Northeast Georgia with his wife and daughter.
James is also the author of the Lovecraftian noir novella Slow Djinn, Four Terrors: Weird Horror Stories, and editor of the weird western anthology Strange Trails, Robots Unleashed!, and editor and co-creator (with former comics scribe Jim Beard) of the alternate history giant monster anthology series Monster Earth.
A recovering comic book addict, James lives in Northeast Georgia with his wife and daughter.
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October 3, 2023
Collection of stories featuring the League:
Ned Nyland- werewolf, human side struggling with the voraciousness of the Wolf
Dr. Stephanie Gordon- marine biologist, Ned`s reason
Hank Clerval- Frankenstein’s monster, Henry, extremely well read and educated
Count Dracula- vampire, Vlad Tepes, I love his sass
Moira Harker- leader, human, yes descendant of THAT Harker
Gill- swamp thing? creature, lot older than anyone knows, shares special telepathic connection with Stephanie- can only communicate with pictures
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Gods and Monsters- James Palmer
Arthur Wellington is the night watchman at the British museum. Loves the museum at night. Ankhmenhotep (Ankh) infamous Yellow King. Peron wearing a Baset mask came to ¿awaken? Ankh. Sent blob minion after Arthur.
Killed Arthur and stole Ankh + tablet
The League heads to London to stop the Last Reich. Awakening Ankh would align with their wants. He was basically a cult leader of a rebellion. Imprisoned in his tomb. Stole book from rare occult book shop in London where our group has traveled to for their mission.
Agent Chalmers- from NY, believes the agencies should learn to work together with the League for they are able to do things they can’t.
They head to a location on the Reich to ambush and stop them from awakening Ankh, but it turns out to have been a trap. Only Ned, Stephanie, and Gil make it back to their HQ setup in London. Chalmers helps collect Ned the next morning and then Stephanie so they can work to find the others.
They get a lead that takes them to Stonehenge. They find their people but are too late to stop the Ennead (robed figures who’ve taken on elaborate headdresses of the main Egyptian gods) from awakening Ankh. We do manage to hold of the newly awakened King while freeing our friends, rounding up the idiot humans, and Hank reads from the book to undo the awakening before it’s irreversible. They were only an offshoot of the Reich, hoping to bring about their plan for taking over the world much faster than they had planned. Basically, impatient Nazi`s that ended up biting off more than they could chew. Good riddance.
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Return to Ehyeog ul-eg- Jessica Nettles
The Last Reich is now out by the Bermuda Triangle looking for Atlantis. Gil has disappeared, possibly injured, after his usual swim out in the waters of the world when not needed by the League. Moira sends Steph and Ned to Bermuda. While refueling, Nazi’s attack Steph while Ned’s getting breakfast. She fights them off, but her spirit still gets separated from her body and the attackers take her body. Vlad helps to give her a corporeal form until they get her body back.
Arrived in Bermuda. Meet Felix. Leader of another secret organization who owes Moira many favors so here he is to help, on all accounts.
Atlantis was a goddess whose followers were Gil’s people. The Nazi’s sought to awaken her in order to advance their technology and rule the world. They plan on using Stephanie’s body to do it. Atlantis just wants to rest after all these centuries trapped and helps Stephanie to join back with her body. Gil is saved and the Nazi’s plans are once again ruined.
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Moon of Destiny-Teel James Glen
Ned is off to the Caribbean Island of Martinidad to meet with Pierre Dupree, an old associate when Ned was a reporter and still human. Sent for Ned after discovering another major plot of the Nazis. Some soulless Nazi sailor strangled Pierre before Ned shot him. Ned called in the calvary. Went investigating in the meantime and happened upon two more sailors (resurrected Nazi sailors) stealing the body of the sailor from the police station. A third kept the Captain busy. They got away and Ned followed. Ned gets caught and taken aboard the hidden and forgotten Nazi sub that disappeared during the war. The League showed up just in time, locked Ned in with the Nazis (alive and dead), and let the Wolf do his thing. They are proud of him while he still struggles with what his Wolf is capable of. Poor Ned- I just wanna hug him!
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Not Another Haunted House Story-Russell Nohelty
Henry and Gil are off to investigate the old Greaves’s mansion on an island because Moira believes something hinky might be going on. They are accompanied by Alice, the boat captain that brought them to the island in the first place. She’s perfectly fine being there with two monsters. Seems to possibly be a fan as it were…
So, I was so on board for their banter until we found the creature guarding the island (totally the Loch Ness or at least look like it). Gil killed Nessie and Alice revealed that she was a Nazi sorceress, who had gotten rid of the mansion’s previous owner and been hunting Nessie for a while. Henry shatters a magical object, Gil injures the witch, and Henry breaks her wand, aging her until she was no more. Distraction was provided by the wife (I think) of Victor, the previous owner the witch killed. The creature had actually been guarding the magical artifact and machine and the witch wasn`t able to penetrate its immune to magic hide, hence, apparent easiness dealing with members of the League.
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Sanctuary Moon-Bobby Nash
Ned is traversing a snow/ice covered mountain, as the Wolf, but Ned is still aware. Never been before. Made it to the top only to be surprised by who he saw and passed out.
Earlier in the timeline- The League was heading home after a long and hard-fought mission when the plane went down on the side of a mountain. Salvageable with time, the others gather themselves as they ready to go after Ned/Wolf as he has changed a week before the full moon and run off.
Back to current timeline- Ned wakes up to find himself and the stranger, also covered in fur but not a werewolf, in an old stone enclosure. Brother Augustus is not very forthcoming with answers… I have questions sir! The rest of the League make their way to the hidden enclosure, originally built by those aware of were-creatures and yetis. Then the Nazi’s took it and began experiments to study the creatures to make super soldiers. Brother Augustus was one such captive and his captors met a deadly end.
In this place, they are able to merge both human and animal, to be conscious even when covered in fur. They don’t intend to let the League leave. Paranoid bastards that don’t wish outsiders to know about them. Drac manages to convince them the League and Moira in particular, could be trusted. They were able to leave and though Ned wanted nothing more than to stay, he couldn’t just forget the needs of the outside world and the threats they have yet to stop.
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Fear the Queen of Fangs- Adrian Delgado
Sobekneferu, the crocodile god’s chosen, kills Dr Francois Fournier for not knowing who she was. Vlad is busy stalking and planning to turn his soon-to-be ex-wife, Fatima Fournier. (Maiden name Polat) He plans to encourage her love of research and see that she makes her own reputation. She tried to decide if her recent descend into researching the forgotten Pharaoh Sobekneferu was coincidence, or if a dead Pharaoh really murdered her jealous husband. Sobekneferu is busy looking for the spell work that could erase her back into oblivion so she may destroy it.
The League and Fatima meet up at a bookshop of another Egyptologist murdered by the Pharaoh. Fatima takes all this occult is real business quite well. They manage to find the spell back at the husband’s office but run into her minions.
She is seeking to erase all knowledge until she is all that remains. The higher the station of the person she sacrifices, the more knowledge is erased. She seeks the President, naturally. After all, they are all in Washington DC. She takes the family, ready to sacrifice when the League interrupts her plan. Vlad gets the family out and the League tears her minions apart, keeping her busy. Fatima sees her opportunity to work the spell to make the knowledge of Sobekneferu disappear once again, including her own sacrifice. The Queen was beaten, and the League stayed with Fatima until her last breath. Then, Vlad turns her into one of his brides. She is quite happy with the turn of events, and they all go out to celebrate.
Ned Nyland- werewolf, human side struggling with the voraciousness of the Wolf
Dr. Stephanie Gordon- marine biologist, Ned`s reason
Hank Clerval- Frankenstein’s monster, Henry, extremely well read and educated
Count Dracula- vampire, Vlad Tepes, I love his sass
Moira Harker- leader, human, yes descendant of THAT Harker
Gill- swamp thing? creature, lot older than anyone knows, shares special telepathic connection with Stephanie- can only communicate with pictures
*
*
Gods and Monsters- James Palmer
Arthur Wellington is the night watchman at the British museum. Loves the museum at night. Ankhmenhotep (Ankh) infamous Yellow King. Peron wearing a Baset mask came to ¿awaken? Ankh. Sent blob minion after Arthur.
Killed Arthur and stole Ankh + tablet
The League heads to London to stop the Last Reich. Awakening Ankh would align with their wants. He was basically a cult leader of a rebellion. Imprisoned in his tomb. Stole book from rare occult book shop in London where our group has traveled to for their mission.
Agent Chalmers- from NY, believes the agencies should learn to work together with the League for they are able to do things they can’t.
They head to a location on the Reich to ambush and stop them from awakening Ankh, but it turns out to have been a trap. Only Ned, Stephanie, and Gil make it back to their HQ setup in London. Chalmers helps collect Ned the next morning and then Stephanie so they can work to find the others.
They get a lead that takes them to Stonehenge. They find their people but are too late to stop the Ennead (robed figures who’ve taken on elaborate headdresses of the main Egyptian gods) from awakening Ankh. We do manage to hold of the newly awakened King while freeing our friends, rounding up the idiot humans, and Hank reads from the book to undo the awakening before it’s irreversible. They were only an offshoot of the Reich, hoping to bring about their plan for taking over the world much faster than they had planned. Basically, impatient Nazi`s that ended up biting off more than they could chew. Good riddance.
*
*
Return to Ehyeog ul-eg- Jessica Nettles
The Last Reich is now out by the Bermuda Triangle looking for Atlantis. Gil has disappeared, possibly injured, after his usual swim out in the waters of the world when not needed by the League. Moira sends Steph and Ned to Bermuda. While refueling, Nazi’s attack Steph while Ned’s getting breakfast. She fights them off, but her spirit still gets separated from her body and the attackers take her body. Vlad helps to give her a corporeal form until they get her body back.
Arrived in Bermuda. Meet Felix. Leader of another secret organization who owes Moira many favors so here he is to help, on all accounts.
Atlantis was a goddess whose followers were Gil’s people. The Nazi’s sought to awaken her in order to advance their technology and rule the world. They plan on using Stephanie’s body to do it. Atlantis just wants to rest after all these centuries trapped and helps Stephanie to join back with her body. Gil is saved and the Nazi’s plans are once again ruined.
*
*
Moon of Destiny-Teel James Glen
Ned is off to the Caribbean Island of Martinidad to meet with Pierre Dupree, an old associate when Ned was a reporter and still human. Sent for Ned after discovering another major plot of the Nazis. Some soulless Nazi sailor strangled Pierre before Ned shot him. Ned called in the calvary. Went investigating in the meantime and happened upon two more sailors (resurrected Nazi sailors) stealing the body of the sailor from the police station. A third kept the Captain busy. They got away and Ned followed. Ned gets caught and taken aboard the hidden and forgotten Nazi sub that disappeared during the war. The League showed up just in time, locked Ned in with the Nazis (alive and dead), and let the Wolf do his thing. They are proud of him while he still struggles with what his Wolf is capable of. Poor Ned- I just wanna hug him!
*
*
Not Another Haunted House Story-Russell Nohelty
Henry and Gil are off to investigate the old Greaves’s mansion on an island because Moira believes something hinky might be going on. They are accompanied by Alice, the boat captain that brought them to the island in the first place. She’s perfectly fine being there with two monsters. Seems to possibly be a fan as it were…
So, I was so on board for their banter until we found the creature guarding the island (totally the Loch Ness or at least look like it). Gil killed Nessie and Alice revealed that she was a Nazi sorceress, who had gotten rid of the mansion’s previous owner and been hunting Nessie for a while. Henry shatters a magical object, Gil injures the witch, and Henry breaks her wand, aging her until she was no more. Distraction was provided by the wife (I think) of Victor, the previous owner the witch killed. The creature had actually been guarding the magical artifact and machine and the witch wasn`t able to penetrate its immune to magic hide, hence, apparent easiness dealing with members of the League.
*
*
Sanctuary Moon-Bobby Nash
Ned is traversing a snow/ice covered mountain, as the Wolf, but Ned is still aware. Never been before. Made it to the top only to be surprised by who he saw and passed out.
Earlier in the timeline- The League was heading home after a long and hard-fought mission when the plane went down on the side of a mountain. Salvageable with time, the others gather themselves as they ready to go after Ned/Wolf as he has changed a week before the full moon and run off.
Back to current timeline- Ned wakes up to find himself and the stranger, also covered in fur but not a werewolf, in an old stone enclosure. Brother Augustus is not very forthcoming with answers… I have questions sir! The rest of the League make their way to the hidden enclosure, originally built by those aware of were-creatures and yetis. Then the Nazi’s took it and began experiments to study the creatures to make super soldiers. Brother Augustus was one such captive and his captors met a deadly end.
In this place, they are able to merge both human and animal, to be conscious even when covered in fur. They don’t intend to let the League leave. Paranoid bastards that don’t wish outsiders to know about them. Drac manages to convince them the League and Moira in particular, could be trusted. They were able to leave and though Ned wanted nothing more than to stay, he couldn’t just forget the needs of the outside world and the threats they have yet to stop.
*
*
Fear the Queen of Fangs- Adrian Delgado
Sobekneferu, the crocodile god’s chosen, kills Dr Francois Fournier for not knowing who she was. Vlad is busy stalking and planning to turn his soon-to-be ex-wife, Fatima Fournier. (Maiden name Polat) He plans to encourage her love of research and see that she makes her own reputation. She tried to decide if her recent descend into researching the forgotten Pharaoh Sobekneferu was coincidence, or if a dead Pharaoh really murdered her jealous husband. Sobekneferu is busy looking for the spell work that could erase her back into oblivion so she may destroy it.
The League and Fatima meet up at a bookshop of another Egyptologist murdered by the Pharaoh. Fatima takes all this occult is real business quite well. They manage to find the spell back at the husband’s office but run into her minions.
She is seeking to erase all knowledge until she is all that remains. The higher the station of the person she sacrifices, the more knowledge is erased. She seeks the President, naturally. After all, they are all in Washington DC. She takes the family, ready to sacrifice when the League interrupts her plan. Vlad gets the family out and the League tears her minions apart, keeping her busy. Fatima sees her opportunity to work the spell to make the knowledge of Sobekneferu disappear once again, including her own sacrifice. The Queen was beaten, and the League stayed with Fatima until her last breath. Then, Vlad turns her into one of his brides. She is quite happy with the turn of events, and they all go out to celebrate.
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October 26, 2023
Fun concept of a band of beastly brothers fighting Nazis post WWII. Well executed by writers Jessica Nettles, Bobby Nash, Teel James Glenn, Russell Nohelty, Adrian Delgado, cover artist Mark Maddox, and mastermind James Palmer. Hope there’s more to come!
September 22, 2023
This is an amazing collection of adventures of Monsters hunting Monsters. If you're a fan of the wolfman, dracula, the thing from the black lagoon, you'll really enjoy this book.
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