Featuring more than 60 authors, this stunning volume brings a fresh take on the bestiary, the dictionary of mythological creatures, by imagining how beasts such as gorgons, minotaurs, and manitchores would cope in the modern age. Offering informational entries and short stories, the collection range
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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
β Scribed by Kim Fu
- Book ID
- 110571183
- Publisher
- Tin House Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781770567023
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time; an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman. These visions of modern life...
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