Goodreads asked Eric Fritzius:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Eric Fritzius I didn't set out to write a book about monsters. I set out to collect a number of short stories. However, when assembling the collection, I knew I didn't want to name the collection after one of the stories featured. (It's kind of the same philosophy as musicians who refuse to name their album after a title of one of the songs on it, but choose something that fits the overall feel of the album.) The common denominator of the stories was the presence of either monsters within them, or, in some cases, humans who behave monstrously. And if you have a collection of monsters, you would then need a collective noun to describe them, no? That is the origin of the book.

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