Probably Monsters: A Collection of Short Stories

by Ray Cluley

There are such things as monsters, and you’ll find many of them here. Be they blood-sucking fiends or shambling dead things, scuttling crawlies, or strange creatures with wings, they’re here within these pages. And some of them, maybe the worst of them, they look like us. They’re people.

Probably Monsters is a collection of 20 dark, disturbing stories by the award-winning Ray Cluley.

You’ve been warned.

Here be monsters.

438 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 4, 2022

About the author

Ray Cluley is a British Fantasy Award winner with stories published in various magazines and anthologies. Some of these have been republished in ‘best of’ volumes, including Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year series and Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror, as well as Steve Berman’s Wilde Stories: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, and Benoît Domis’s Ténèbres. He has been translated into French, Polish, and Hungarian, and Chinese.

Reviews

[Zachary Finn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this collection! The stories are interesting, well-written, and paced appropriately. While reading it I couldn’t help but appreciate Cluley’s obvious love of horror: there were references to other authors and creators in the genre, clever re-imaginings, and unique spins on classic tropes. This collection managed to walk that difficult tightrope of celebrating what readers love about horror, while also staying fresh and engaging. Looking forward to whatever is next from Cluley. Easily five stars.