Dawn of the Monsters

Amazing Monster Tales #1

by Jamie Ferguson, DeAnna Knippling, Annie Reed

Love pulp fiction?
Amazing Monster Tales is here to provide it!

11 tales of monsters, mayhem, strange and inexplicable events, uncanny technologies, wildly improbable events, and more. Some monsters you’ve seen before…
And some of them you haven’t!
Some monsters are the good guys…
And some of them are very, very bad indeed!

Featuring stories by:

Dean Wesley Smith • Ron Collins • P. D. Cacek • Mark Leslie • Steve Vernon • Annie Reed • Sèphera Girón • Rebecca M. Senese • Marcelle Dubé • Jamie Ferguson • DeAnna Knippling

DAWN OF THE MONSTERS

This volume, DAWN OF THE MONSTERS, features trolls, goblins, creeps, mad scientists, vampires, aliens, Frankenstein, a very nasty ex-girlfriend, a mysterious egg, a bargain you can’t refuse, something dark and mysterious that lives underground, and a disgusting, evil beast straight out of the swamp!
We can’t promise that these tales won’t make you think…but they’ll grab you by your sense of adventure and take you for a ride!

NEXT ISSUE

Look for MONSTER ROAD TRIP…and wear your shades!

276 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 6, 2018

About the author

I love to get into the minds and hearts of my characters, whether I'm writing about a saloon girl in the old west, a man who discovers the barista he's in love with is a naiad, or a ghost who haunts the house she was killed in—even though that house no longer exists. I want them to agonize over their choices, and I want what they choose - or don't choose—to matter. I want the reader to feel joy when a character succeeds, and to cry when they don't—just like I do when I'm writing the story.

I live in Colorado, and spend my free time in a futile quest to wear out my two border collies since I haven’t given in and gotten them their own herd of sheep. Yet...

Reviews

[Terri · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really great collection of stories - of monsters from vampires to Swamp Monsters. I enjoyed every story a lot. I think my favorites were 'Bitch' by PD Cacek and 'Bargain Hunter' by Rebeccas M. Senese. Also got introduced to many more great authors I will have to read more from.

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first volume of an anthology series, about equally split between reprints and original stories. In has an amusing introduction in which they define monsters and pulp fiction and express their goal to present good pulp fictions about monsters (and also to not present images of helpless-looking characters and/or bare nipples on the cover (which struck me as an odd attribute to single out, but c'est la vie)), all of which goals I believe they achieved rather well. There's a wide range of monsters represented, and all of the stories are action-packed adventures. I particularly enjoyed Mark Leslie's off-beat vampire tale, Rebecca M. Senese's bargain hunter story (titled Bargain Hunter by fortuitous coincidence), Beach Comber by Sephera Giron, The Bitch by P.D. Cacek, and my favorite was The Grave-Diggers by co-editor DeAnna Knippling. Or maybe It Came Out of the Swamp by Ron Collins. Whatever...fun book, pulp rules.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of classic style pulp monster tales was a delightful treat.

Yes, I have a story in it, and that's how I discovered it. But I was impressed with the tales by the other authors in this collection that reminded me of some of the creepy and eerie comics I used to enjoy reading when I was a kid. It brought back all the same wonderful goosebumps and fun atmospheric tales that I loved getting lost in.