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Reviews and commentary on monster fiction.
TRAPPED! FINALE! by Richard D. Bailey (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/11/24/n... #HorrorBooks #HorrorReads
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
TRAPPED! FINALE! by Richard D. Bailey (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/11/24/n... #HorrorBooks #HorrorReads
REIGN OF THE TITANS, VOL. 1: RAGNAROK ... NOW! edited by Christofer Nigro (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/11/10/t... #kaiju #horrorreads #horrorbooks
The Golden Age of Daikaiju Fiction
Hot on the heels of the latest volume of Attack of the Kaiju (see my review here) comes Reign of the Titans, Vol. 1: Ragnarok … Now!, another terrific collection of giant monster stories. It makes …
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November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
REIGN OF THE TITANS, VOL. 1: RAGNAROK ... NOW! edited by Christofer Nigro (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/11/10/t... #kaiju #horrorreads #horrorbooks
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU, VOL. 3: GIANTS ON THE RAMPAGE edited by Christofer Nigro (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/11/03/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
Titanic Terrors
As a casual onlooker, you might be surprised to discover that there are numerous authors currently dedicated to writing kaiju prose fiction. Matthew Dennion, Neil Riebe, Dustin Dreyling, Jeremy Rob…
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November 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU, VOL. 3: GIANTS ON THE RAMPAGE edited by Christofer Nigro (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/11/03/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
ARTHROPLEURA ATTACK! by J. Rocky Colavito (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/10/27/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
The Thing That Creeps on Many Feet
At night, a lawless posse of U.S. immigration agents aggressively patrolled the Arizona border. The lucky migrants they captured were sent back to Mexico naked and raped. The unlucky ones were left…
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October 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
ARTHROPLEURA ATTACK! by J. Rocky Colavito (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/10/27/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
SPAWN OF NIGHTMARES: MEET THE MONSTERS edited by David E. Anderson & Brody Butcher (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/10/20/m... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
Monsters Rise Again
Not only is “Dracula Remains” by Varon Cook one of my favorite stories in Spawn of Nightmares: Meet the Monsters, but it also serves as a keystone to the anthology’s thematic structure. “The …
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October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
SPAWN OF NIGHTMARES: MEET THE MONSTERS edited by David E. Anderson & Brody Butcher (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/10/20/m... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
FEEDING GROUND by John Monsees (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/10/13/c... #horrorbooks #horrorreads
CrabGPT
The fish processing plant was the economic heart of Saltwick Bay. Its massive concrete bulk dominated the harbor like an industrial cathedral dedicated to the harvest of the sea. The factory …
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October 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
FEEDING GROUND by John Monsees (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/10/13/c... #horrorbooks #horrorreads
KAIJU BITES by Neil Riebe (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/10/06/m... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
Mankind’s Best Friends
The seeds of this website were sown way back in the early 2000s when the three-volumes of Daikaiju! were first published. Each anthology—Giant Monster Tales, Revenge of the Giant Monsters and Giant…
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October 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
KAIJU BITES by Neil Riebe (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/10/06/m... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
MONSTER MONDAY edited by Dawn Wilson (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/29/m... @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks
Monday Bloody Monday
Chickens genetically engineered into dinosaurs? That’s crazy! But that’s exactly what happens in “Cretaceous Carnivores,” a story written by Joel Austin in a new weekday-specific anthology called M…
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September 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
MONSTER MONDAY edited by Dawn Wilson (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/29/m... @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks
NIGHTMARE REEF by Deborah Sheldon (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/22/s... #creaturefeature #horrorreads #horrorbooks
Something Hungry This Way Comes
Nightmare Reef starts with a pod of plesiosaurs cruising the Pacific Ocean as if nothing had changed since the Cretaceous Period. Obeying instincts passed down for 215 million years; they were on t…
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September 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
NIGHTMARE REEF by Deborah Sheldon (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/22/s... #creaturefeature #horrorreads #horrorbooks
MODERN MUMMIES: A HORROR ANTHOLOGY edited by A.C. Bauer (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/15/b... @cateyepress.bsky.social @acbauer.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks
Bound by Love
All the beloved tropes of the mummy genre are present in the stories included in Modern Mummies: A Horror Anthology. But I applaud editor A.C. Bauer’s desire to expand the scope of what mummy horro…
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September 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
MODERN MUMMIES: A HORROR ANTHOLOGY edited by A.C. Bauer (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/15/b... @cateyepress.bsky.social @acbauer.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks
THE PENNSYLVANIAN by Kyle Brokenshire (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/08/t... @lordbrokenshire.bsky.social #vampire #pulp #horrorreads #horrorbooks
the Thirteen-Hundred-Year-Old Man
When vampires found themselves in a pinch and needed some help, they’d call Alexandru Dragoi. Born in 699, he was one of the oldest beings alive. As a vampire, 13 centuries of debauchery had grante…
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September 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
THE PENNSYLVANIAN by Kyle Brokenshire (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/08/t... @lordbrokenshire.bsky.social #vampire #pulp #horrorreads #horrorbooks
KAIJU CHRYSALIS by Sam Phillips (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/01/k... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
Kaiju Sunrise
The sun and the Earth have always been inextricably linked. In literature and mythology, they’re symbolically connected through stories of life, death and rebirth. They are celestial giants that re…
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September 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
KAIJU CHRYSALIS by Sam Phillips (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/09/01/k... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
UNHOLY BLOOD by Ian Gielen (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/25/t... #horrorbooks #horrorreads
The Bat Cave
Question: While reading a murder mystery (or any other type of novel), do you parse the clues, track the characters and second-guess the narrator in an attempt to figure out the resolution? Or do y…
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August 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
UNHOLY BLOOD by Ian Gielen (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/25/t... #horrorbooks #horrorreads
FLESH-EATING TURTLES! by Nora B. Peevy (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/18/t... @theevilcookiepub.bsky.social @biteycat.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks
Turtlepocalypse
The Turtlepocalypse begins when giant flesh-eating turtles escape from a biotech laboratory in Milwaukee. Even though these abominations eventually reach a height of 20-30 feet, they aren’t exempla…
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August 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
FLESH-EATING TURTLES! by Nora B. Peevy (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/18/t... @theevilcookiepub.bsky.social @biteycat.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks
DUSK BUNNIES by Terry Miller (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/11/f... @theevilcookiepub.bsky.social #vampire #horrorreads #horrorbooks
From Dusk to Dust
Nineteen-year-old James Evans hadn’t blown his load in a week and was almost ready to break his no self-fiddling rule. “A guy like me shouldn’t have to jack off,” he said. With no other optio…
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August 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
DUSK BUNNIES by Terry Miller (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/11/f... @theevilcookiepub.bsky.social #vampire #horrorreads #horrorbooks
DROPSHIPPED by Stephanie Sanders-Jacob (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/04/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
The Heroes’ Journey
Alex was a get-rich-quick motherfucker. He was a proud dropshipper who never once laid his hands on actual merchandise. His automated system took online orders and activated shipments from warehous…
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August 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
DROPSHIPPED by Stephanie Sanders-Jacob (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/08/04/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
ATTACK OF THE COLOSSAL CREATURES FROM PLANET X edited by T.C. Phillips monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/28/w... #kaiju #horrorreads #horrorbooks
When Colossal Creatures Attack
Attack of the Colossal Creatures from Planet X asks one simple, yet unanswerable, question: What will it be like when giant monsters invade our planet? Will it be epochal? Apocalyptic? Biblical? I …
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July 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ATTACK OF THE COLOSSAL CREATURES FROM PLANET X edited by T.C. Phillips monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/28/w... #kaiju #horrorreads #horrorbooks
PRIMORDIAL SOUP: THE SECOND BATCH by Dustin Dreyling (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/21/a... #kaiju #horrorreads #horrorbooks
A New Recipe for Disaster
There’s a specific moment in life when pop culture gets imprinted on your brain forever. It’s a period when movies, books, music (and everything else) sticks to you like bubblegum on the bottom of …
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July 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
PRIMORDIAL SOUP: THE SECOND BATCH by Dustin Dreyling (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/21/a... #kaiju #horrorreads #horrorbooks
TICK TOWN by Christopher A. Micklos monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/14/g... @horrorwriterchris.bsky.social #creaturefeature #horrorreads #horrorbooks
GiganTick
Right from the beginning of Tick Town, a fun new creature feature from author Christopher A. Micklos, I knew I would fall in love with the character of Emmaline Blackdeer. As a cub reporter for the…
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July 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
TICK TOWN by Christopher A. Micklos monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/14/g... @horrorwriterchris.bsky.social #creaturefeature #horrorreads #horrorbooks
THE SLEEPOVER MUMMY MASSACRE by Kristopher Rufty (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/07/t... @kristopherrufty.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks
The Moanin’ Mummy
Bioarchaeologists have to be careful when excavating mummies—mostly because the burial shroud, the body and everything else in the sarcophagus might turn to dust if mishandled. There were other rea…
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July 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
THE SLEEPOVER MUMMY MASSACRE by Kristopher Rufty (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/07/07/t... @kristopherrufty.bsky.social #horrorreads #horrorbooks
DOG FIGHT by Lucas Pederson (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/30/d... #horrorreads #horrorbooks #werewolf
Dog Eat Dog
Author Lucas Pederson calls the werewolf in his latest novel a dog. Even though dogs and wolves share the same DNA, I’m not 100 percent sure why Pederson conflates the two. My best guess is that he…
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June 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
DOG FIGHT by Lucas Pederson (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/30/d... #horrorreads #horrorbooks #werewolf
CRETACEOUS CURSE by Cassian Eldreth (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/16/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
The Cretaceous Flop
According to author Cassian Eldreth, “Isla Necrosa exhaled an aura of primordial menace, a raw untamed power that whispered of impending doom.” The island was not merely a place of volcanic activit…
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June 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
CRETACEOUS CURSE by Cassian Eldreth (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/16/t... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
MONSTER BONES edited by Stephanie Ellis & Noel Osualdini (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/09/l... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
Lovely Bones
Since time immemorial, bones have been the connection between life and death. In every culture throughout history, they’ve been the symbols of mortality and permanence. In Monster Bones, a ne…
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June 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
MONSTER BONES edited by Stephanie Ellis & Noel Osualdini (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/09/l... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
VAMPIRE RITES by D.A. Holmes (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/02/w... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
June 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
VAMPIRE RITES by D.A. Holmes (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/06/02/w... #horrorreads #horrorbooks
YEAR OF THE FIRE RABBIT: A GIANT MONSTER ANTHOLOGY by Daniel Lee Gray (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/05/19/k... @ultrakong87.bsky.social #kaiju
Kaiju Unleashed
Year of the Fire Rabbit is a slim, 105-page kaiju anthology. There’s only four stories in the collection, but it contains a wild assortment of creatures, madmen, inter-dimensional shenanigans, Bibl…
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May 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
YEAR OF THE FIRE RABBIT: A GIANT MONSTER ANTHOLOGY by Daniel Lee Gray (book review) monsterbookclub.com/2025/05/19/k... @ultrakong87.bsky.social #kaiju