Anonymous says:

Look out, there’s a monster coming! The latest volume in Mike Ashley’s series of themed SF anthologies for the British Library is admirably consistent with its predecessors. In other words, it’s a selection of ancient (ranging from 1897 to 1961) stories about – you’ve possibly spotted this – diverse beasties, some terrestrial, some extra-terrestrial, and some extra-dimensional. The selection avoids the obvious and mixes celebrated names (Wells, Lovecraft), names known to ageing SF fans (A.E. van Vogt, Eric Frank Russell) and…

Anonymous says:

They’re all around us! In his introduction, Mike Ashley reminds us that there have always been monsters, from the Hydra and Minotaur of the Greeks, through the giants and ogres of fairy tales, to the more futuristic monsters of our own generation. This anthology contains fourteen stories mostly from the first half of the twentieth century, ranging from the evolution-inspired monsters left in remote places of the earth from the dinosaur era, to the monsters emerging from the unexplored ocean deeps, to the aliens from…