Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy Through Essays Articles and Reviews

Culture Critiques from the Author of AnnihilationAn entertaining eclectic chronicle of modern fantastical fiction Monstrous Creatures delivers incisive commentary reviews and essays pertaining to permutations of the monstrous whether its other peoples monsters personal monsters or monstrous thoughts. A two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award Jeff VanderMeer is one of speculative fictions foremost voices. For the past 20 years he has not only written weird literary fiction translated into 20 languages but written about it extensively influencing the way people think about fantasy through reviews in major papers like The Washington Post and The New York Times as well as through interviews thoughtful essays blog posts teaching and guest-speaking.Monstrous Creatures a follow-up to his 2004 nonfiction collection Why Should I Cut Your Throat? collects all of his major nonfiction from the past five years including such controversial pieces as The Romantic Underground The Triumph of the Good and The Language of Defeat. Interviews with writers like Margo Lanagan and China Miéville are an added bonus creating a dialogue with VanderMeers own interpretations of the monstrous in the fantastical.