Black Infinity: Creature Features

by Tom English, Allen Koszowski (Illustrator), John M Navroth (Contributor)

10th giant volume celebrating monsters, aliens, insects and more. Stories and articles inspired by the old Creature Features movies of yesterday, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fog Horn" and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. The Arthur Conan Doyle story that inspired Universal Studios' The Mummy; the history of James Warren's magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland; the cinematic forerunners of Ridley Scott's film Alien, including Jerome Bixby's The Terror from Beyond Space, Ib Melchior and Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires, Queen of Blood, and John Carpenter's The Thing. Plus a comics story featuring Reptisaurus! Heavily illustrated with movie photos and art by World Fantasy Award winner Allen Koszowski. Blobs and globs, creepy spiders, man-eating plants, vampires, shapeshifters, mutants, dragons, demons, werewolves and other classic horrors that go bump in the night, happily haunting your dreams---or nightmares!

234 pages, Paperback

Published September 24, 2023

About the author

Tom English is an environmental chemist who writes strange tales of the supernatural in his spare time. His fiction appears in several anthologies, including Haunted House Short Stories, Detective Thrillers Short Stories, Gaslight Arcanum (an anthology of supernatural Sherlock Holmes stories), and Challenger Unbound, as well as issues of Weirdbook, Black Infinity, and All Hallows (The Journal of the Ghost Story Society). His first story “Lightning Rod” was selected to appear in Horror: The Best of the Year, 2008 (Wildside Press, 2009). Tom’s nonfiction books include Diet for Dreamers, Angel in the Kitchen, and The Heart of an Angel, both written with his wife, Wilma. He also edited Bound for Evil, a 2008 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best anthology, featuring stories about strange, often deadly books. Tom resides with Wilma, surrounded by books and beasts, deep in the woods of New Kent, VA.