Assembling Monsters

This past summer, in addition to recovering from surgery for prostate cancer, I wrote a story for an anthology called An Assembly of Monsters. Classic tales throughout time pit humanity against creatures of the night, beyond mortal understanding. But what—or who—makes a monster? Folklore has its tale to tell, but might there be a different view? The anthology presents fourteen tales inspired by the masters of the macabre, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, paying tribute to their vision of gothic hor...