GMM Quick-Hit-a-Thon #5

Here's my fifth "Quick-Hit-a-Thon" post for the Stone Skin Press Gods, Memes and Monsters anthology. This time around it's for mythological creatures you've no doubt encountered already—"Beings" by the very funny Rupert Booth. Booth's entry begins with "We’ve all met one."

GMM Quick-Hit-a-Thon #4

Here's my fourth "Quick-Hit-a-Thon" post for the Stone Skin Press Gods, Memes and Monsters anthology. This time it's for the war beast, "Banaroc," by the wonderful Toronto-based fiction writer Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Kathryn's entry opens with "The battle creature, or banaroc, is an unsteady and quickly..."
 

GMM Quick-Hit-a-Thon #3

My third Gods, Memes and Monsters anthology Quick-Hit-a-Thon" post is for "The American Singing Swan" by renowned American game designer, Greg Stafford. The swan is a modern mythological creature that first appeared around the time of the U.S. election of 1980. Stafford's entry begins with "There has appeared in America a peculiar and beautiful creature."
 

GMM Quick-Hit-a-Thon #2

My second "Quick-Hit-a-Thon" post for the Stone Skin Press Gods, Memes and Monsters anthology is the "Ahuizotl" entry by "Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination" author Silvia Moreno-Garcia. The Ahuizotl is mythological Aztec creature and Moreno-Garcia's prose poem begins with "There, in the alley, a starving dog,"
 

GMM Quick-Hit-a-Thon

In the countdown to the World Fantasy Awards being announced at the end of the October and with Halloween/Monster month about to begin, I'm embarking on a mini social media "quick-hit-a-thon" mentioning the authors and mythological creatures from Stone Skin Press' Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary anthology, edited by yours truly.

As the book is an alphabetical bestiary, the first creature in GMM is the "Agave" by the wonderful Arinn Dembo of Vancouver, BC. The entry opens with: "She comes down just once a year from the dry hills of Los Altos..."

More recognition for Gods, Memes and Monsters

As editor of Gods, Memes and Monsters, I'm delighted to congratulate Arinn Dembo, Dave Gross, Jonathan L. Howard and Malcolm Devlin - their GMM stories all made Ellen Datlow's best horror of the year long list!

Part 1 of the long list is here, Part 2 is here, Part 3 is here.

In her Best Horror of the Year Volume 8, Ellen Datlow called the GMM anthology "an entertaining mix".

I also want to congratulate Sandra Kasturi who was nominated for an Aurora Award for her GMM poem “Typhon & Echidna: A Love Story” earlier this year.

Kudos and congrats all round!