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Speculative fiction, art and graphic stories by authors from Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific islands like Hawaii and Guam. All the stories are based on folklore, myths and legends about monsters from the region. Pacific Monsters is the fourth in a coffee table book series with dark fiction and art about monsters from around the world.
Paperback, 180 pages
Published
November 30th 2017
by Fox Spirit Books
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Pacific Monsters is the fourth in Fox Spirit's ongoing series of monster stories collected from all around the world, and with this edition put together from across the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, it's no surprise that the sea features heavily in a lot of the stories here. It should be noted that Pacific Monsters also takes in monsters from Australia and New Zealand in this case, drawing on both Maori ( "Children of the Mist" by Tihema Baker, A J Fitzwater's excellently-titled "From the Womb
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Pacific Monsters is a fantastic collection of short stories from Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and more. It's great to read an anthology with diverse voices and stories from parts of the world that are often overlooked. But I do have a favourite in the collection: All My Relations by Brian Kamaoli Kuwada. It's not just the shape-shifting shark that I love (although that is something that has fascinated me for years) but the core relationship between the young diver and the shape-shifter, and
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This was a solid collection of thrilling stories of monsters that really do need to be more represented. Each story was engaging and very representative of the different ways you can tell a monster story.
I've a story in this, and I've got a couple of mates with stories in here as well so I am Biased with a capital B. That being said, I've just finished reading this and I'm so happy I didn't just leave it looking pretty on my bookshelf, because so many of the stories in here are awesome. Each time I thought I'd found my favourite I kept reading, and found another one that I liked even more. The editor has done a fantastic job with her selections, and while I agree with her introductory regrets
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This was poor. I found the stories overlong and not very engaging. If you like folklore then you might enjoy this but I didn't. Sorry.
Excellent anthology exploring myths and social issues around the Pacific
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Margrét Helgadóttir is a Norwegian-Icelandic girl living in Oslo, Norway. On her spare time she writes fiction in English (her native language is Norwegian) and she also edits fiction anthologies (also in English).
Margrét’s stories have appeared in a number of both magazines and print anthologies such as Gone Lawn, Luna Station Quarterly, Girl at the End of the World, and Sunspot Jungle, to name a ...more
Margrét’s stories have appeared in a number of both magazines and print anthologies such as Gone Lawn, Luna Station Quarterly, Girl at the End of the World, and Sunspot Jungle, to name a ...more
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