Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology

We have always made monsters: in art, in myth, in religion; out of clay or bronze, pixels or hybrid flesh; from the stuff of human nightmares; by cursing women with bestial traits. This anthology brings together fiction and accessible academic writing in conversation about monsters and their roles in our lives—and ours in theirs.

Twelve short stories, three flash fiction, three poems, and six essays from a broad field of authors, scholars and practitioners cover a range of approaches to and reimaginings of ancient monsters both familiar and less-known. These are not the monsters you found in Homer or Ovid—they make look like them, but these have much louder voices.