Here there be New Creatures (Novus Creatura) who will become the new Frankenstein Monsters and Draculas. Mirroring society, they reach from within these pages to clutch at your throat, your very soul. Don't open this collection without first lighting your room and locking your doors, because the new masters of horror and fantasy await within these pages to carve their words into your brain, to share their creatures with you: spider-children and environmental horrors; gene-spliced monstrosities and black worms; shadow-people and midnight drivers. All these wait beneath the fabric of society to...

From folklore to urban legend to contemporary horror, cautionary tales have instructed both young and old for centuries. The forest wolves of yesteryear circle at the edge of technology while new world predators arrive to take their place. Watch now, as they hunt, cloaked in designer suits, bearing multi-level marketing schemes, manufactured pestilence, and world domination. But the old values of belief, respect and friendship-even greed and opportunism-remain the same. The good news is that the human spirit is alive with stellar aspirations. The bad news is, as we reach into that golden pot...