MONSTER CARNIVAL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THINGS, BEASTS & CREATURES

A Funerary Feast of 22 Classic And Rare Monster Stories…

They’re Coming! Under the bed and behind the closet, in dark basements and gloomy attics…they are the whispers in the dark, the growl in the corner…they are everything we fear, and all that we secretly desire…they are us…they are MONSTERS!

They’re all here, a paranormal parade of the dead, demonic and devilish. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghouls, and blobs…unnamable entities and marvelous monstrosities, murderous severed hands, demonic frogs…every crawling, lurching, leaping, shambling THING that every stalked a printed page.

This anthology features a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten, from the gothic era to the 20th century.

Here There Be Monsters, William P. Simmons
Amina, Edward, Lucas White
Four Wooden Stakes, Victor Rowan
The Hounds of Tindalos, Frank Belknap Long
Mark of the Beast, Rudyard Kipling
The Demon’s Spell, Hume Nisbet
Jumbee, Henry S. Whitehead
The Spectral Spiders, W.J. Wintle
The Werewolf, Eugene O’Neil
At the End of the Corridor, Evangeline Walton
The Hoard of the Gibbelins, Lord Dunsany
The Lurking Fear, H.P. Lovecraft
The Sea Raiders, H.G. Wells
Lot 249, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson
The Vampire of Cronglin Grange, Augustus Hare
Frogfather, Manly Wade Wellman
Rukorokubi, Lafcadio Hearn
The Death of Halpin Frayser, Ambrose Bierce
The Beast with Five Fingers, W.F. Harvey
The Sumach, Ulric Daubeny
Ooze, Anthony M. Rud
The Thing in the Hall, E.F. Benson

Editor William P. Simmons leads this spectral spectacle, lovingly hand-picking supernatural, psychological, and weird tales for every torrid taste. This compendium of long-legged beasties and “things that go bump in the night” brings back the monsters that scared you as a child and know your deepest fears as an adult.

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A battle between science and the supernatural is waged amidst small town prejudice as he fights to save the woman he loves…and his very soul!

Supernatural author and critic William Simmons edits and introduces the second volume of Shadow House Publishing’s Horror Hall of Fame Novellas. This special edition features an appendix of werewolf legend, lore, and short fiction.

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Editor William Simmons unlocks the evil of this fifth volume in Shadow House Publishing’s Horror Hall of Fame Novellas series. This special edition includes an introduction, bonus short fiction, and Lovecraft’s “Notes on Writing Weird Fiction”.

About Author & Editor William Simmons

“[William Simmons’] anthologies are carefully crafted, the stories bleeding into each other with seamless precision.” – Maynard & Sims, Demon Eyes.

William Simmons guides readers through centuries of All Hallows fiction and folklore in:

“Avoiding horror’s traditional icons and their premeasured fright potential, Simmons crafts impression packed sketches in which characters made vulnerable by overpowering emotions find their reality giving imperceptibly-but irresistibly-away to a disturbing surreality.”- Publisher’s Weekly

Publisher’s Weekly finds William Simmons…scary.

William Simmons is an acclaimed author, critic, anthologist, and journalist specializing in supernatural horror fiction. Eight of his stories received ‘Honorable Mentions’ in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. His collection By Reason of Darkness received rave reviews from Cemetery Dance, All Hallows, and Publisher’s Weekly, who called him “a writer whose approach is both original and refreshingly unconventional.”

William loves to speak horror with fans and readers, and is available for podcast appearances and interviews. Contact him at Facebook (@WilliamsSimmonsAuthor), Twitter (@SimmonsofNight), Goodreads, and Amazon Author Central

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