Filthy Beast

Is there hope for humankind? Monsters the size of skyscrapers terrorize the mainland. Psycho-killers lurk in the shadows with glistening blades and cracked smiles. Salivating shape-shifters tap bony fingernails against first-floor windows. Reduced to the point of irrelevance once-powerful men now cower behind reinforced doors rimmed with deadbolts.</P><P>In the nine gloomy tales of <I>Filthy Beast: Fiendish Lullabies</I> come face to face with undersexed fish-monsters hard-drinking demons superhuman ninjas incompetent werewolves and other absurd antiheroes. Hope it seems has joined the endangered species list.</P><P>Take two parts horror one part dark comedy and a pinch of erotica let them fester in a stagnant puddle and serve chilled. That's the recipe for <i>Filthy Beast's</I> fiendish fables of love death sex and biological weaponry--humanity at its very worst.</P>