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Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters
by
John Langan ,
Paul Tremblay (Goodreads Author) , Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author), Joe R. Lansdale, Robert R. McCammon, China Miéville (Goodreads Author), Cherie Priest (Goodreads Author), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author)
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Monsters: As old as the oldest of stories, as new as our latest imaginings. From the ancient stone corridors of the labyrinth to the graffitied alleyways of the contemporary metropolis, they stalk the shadows. Leering from the darkness of the forest, jostling for space in our closets, they walk, crawl, creep and scuttle through our nightmares. Close as the clutter under th
...morePaperback, Advanced Reading Copy, 384 pages
Published
September 6th 2011
by Prime Books
(first published July 23rd 2007)
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Thirty Years of Monsters is a collection of short stories from various authors that are monster stories but told from the perspective of the monster. The stories include monsters that we've all heard of (like godzilla) and monsters that were just made up on the spot. The theme in Thirty Years of Monsters varies from story to story. However they all base around the common idea of giant destructive beasts that may or may not breath fire. There are a few stories that go beyond that though, imaginin...more
Short story collections, especially ones by multiple authors are, of course, only as good as the strongest entry and as bad as the weakest. This collection, spanning roughly thirty years worth of short stories all of which have some kind of monster in them, is no exception. Clive Barker's the big name author here, and his story is one of the longest and one of the strongest, but other stories were just kinda weird. The better ones are in the beginning of the volume (I dug the story about the sur...more
I've often compared reading anthologies to mining. Sometimes you find a rich vein, other times you find an inferior vein. Perhaps this particular book is like archeology. In archeology, you may find some historically significant artifact, but most often you find broken potter, trash or coprolites (that's fossilized poop, fyi).
There are a few good stories, in here, but by and large there are very few examples of good writing here. Many are juvenile and seemingly obsessed with bodily functions and
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Nicely done anthology, at over 900 pages if you are a horror fan you are sure to find quite a few stories that you like. As usual with anthologies, some I liked better than others, but I now have a list of about 9 new (to me) writers that I want to find more stories by. There were also only 3 stories that I have read before (The Ropey Thing, Raw-head Rex, Replacements), which is pretty good for a book spanning 30 years. If you like shorts you should check this out.
Oct 12, 2012
Jeff Stockett
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There were a few good stories in here. There were several I would give 4 stars to, individually. A few of those were terrifying, or intriguing, with interesting and new ideas.
However, there were others that were downright boring. Or that tried to compensate for lack of good frightening story telling by over compensating with gratuitous violence. Nearly all of them had unnecessary language. Many of those I would have given 1 star individually.
Therefore, I give the whole collection a 2. If 2.5 wer...more
However, there were others that were downright boring. Or that tried to compensate for lack of good frightening story telling by over compensating with gratuitous violence. Nearly all of them had unnecessary language. Many of those I would have given 1 star individually.
Therefore, I give the whole collection a 2. If 2.5 wer...more
I really loved the first quarter of the stories but the others were hit or miss
I only read the first story and stopped at that. The monsters are turned into real people and it doesn't work out. There was a lot of bad language and the things they do are horrible. I wanted scary stories and this book didn't have any. I only read godzilla's and the story was about him dealing with his problems. I didn't even want to find out what the other ones were about.
Awesome anthology! I thoroughly enjoyed almost every story in this book and I would recommend it to anybody who is a fan of the horror genre.
Full review here.
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