Monstrum: Classic Tales of Legendary, Beastly, and Ghastly Creatures

by Chad Arment (Editor)

Monstrum collects twenty classic short stories with myriad monstrous creatures from mythology and darker imaginations. "The Cube" is a precursor of "pod people" science fiction, "The Derelict" is a very different sea monster, while "The Basilisk," "Medusa," and "The Song of the Sirens" give their own versions of mythological beasts.

Henric Van Kaarten or, The Valley of Spirits (1856), Anonymous
The Devil of the Marsh (1893), H. B. Marriott-Watson
The Basilisk (1894), R. Murray Gilchrist
The Upper Berth (1894), F. Marion Crawford
The Gorgon’s Head (1899), Gertrude Bacon
Medusa (1902), Phil Robinson
The Man Who Went Too Far (1904), E. F. Benson
Amina (1907), Edward Lucas White
Lukundoo (1907), Edward Lucas White
The Wendigo (1910), Algernon Blackwood
The Derelict (1912), William Hope Hodgson
Fishhead (1913), Irvin S. Cobb
The Mollmeit of the Mountain (1913), Cynthia Stockley
The Yarn of Lanky Job (1913), John Masefield
The People of the Pit (1918), A. Merritt
The Song of the Sirens (1919), Edward Lucas White
The Thing that Smelt (1921), Christopher Blayre
Negotium Perambulans (1922), E. F. Benson
The Ghoul (1922), Sir Hugh Charles Clifford
The Cube (1926), Charles Loring Jackson

350 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2010

About the author

Two of the first "real" authors I read when I was young were Alistair MacLean and Rex Stout, and those remain favorites. Today, for personal reading, there are several mystery authors I enjoy; for non-fiction, I jump around a bit depending on what I'm interested in. (At the moment, suiseki and dragonflies, go figure.)
In 2004, I self-published my first print-on-demand book, on cryptozoology. Since then, I've added several other of my own titles, a fair number by other authors, and a whole lot of reprints (both public domain and licensed). Titles can be seen at www.coachwhipbooks.com.
I currently live in Ohio.