Locus, July 2013 by Locus Publications

Author:Locus Publications
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: fantasy, publishing, science fiction
Published: 2013-07-26T07:00:00+00:00

Like Russell, Kasey Lansdale – the daughter of Joe & Karen Lansdale – is a second generation horror anthologist. Also like Russell, she is very liberal in the interpretation of her debut anthology’s title. Not all of the stories in Impossible Monsters feature monsters in the traditional sense – though all serve up something monstrous. And the monstrousness on display in several of the non-supernatural stories seems... well, if not possible, then at least not impossible. The book’s twelve stories are bookended by two bona-fide monster tales that represent the strongest and most imaginative of the selections. David J. Schow kicks things off with ‘‘Blue Amber’’, an account of two border patrol agents who discover that the aliens they are investigating come from a more otherworldly place than south of the border, and have a proclivity for appropriating human ‘‘vessels’’ that makes them something of a cross between 17-year cicadas and the pod-people of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Schow’s skill at describing the gruesome in sharp detail give the story’s scenes a cinematic vividness, as do his rib-nudging references to how unrealistically horror movies usually present the vanquishing of the monster: ‘‘In the movies, monsters who upset the status quo were always defeated by something ordinary and obvious, usually discovered by accident – sea water, dog whistles, paprika, Slim Whitman music. In movies, a salvational curative was always set up in the first act as a throwaway, sure to encore later with deeper meaning.’’

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