You can hardly swing a dismembered deer carcass these days without hitting a “No vampires, no zombies, and no werewolves” sign on an anthology.THE FACTS
📕 werewolf short story collection
📘variety of well-crafted works
THE GOOD BITS
Werewolves! All kinds of werewolves! I don’t read a lot of short story collections but this one was definitely entertaining! I enjoy all kinds of paranormal monster stories and this collection is packed with them.
It starts off with a story about a woman alone in a snow covered landscape with her twins. She hears growling outside… Then there’s a trapped werewolf trying to survive and avoid being experimented on. Explorations of “othering” as portrayed through werewolves. Tongue in cheek feminist takes … (I’m not even going to describe it because the story is fantastic). There are confined werewolves, full on creatures, half human/half werewolf. There’s Xenoarchaeology, stem cells and genetic re-sequencing and an alien virus with terrifying consequences.
I think my favourite thing was the overall eeriness of the stories. Even though there were some tales that were darkly humours, the mood of the collection stayed on the more frightening side.
I was really surprised at the variety of ideas and world building in this collection. It was engaging from beginning to end. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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I received an ARC copy of Strange New Moons from French Press Publishing.
Kinzie Things 