Monsters
Description
Monsters is an illustrated collection of wild, weird, and whimsical tales with a twist. These stories are not about mythical creatures; here, the creatures speak for themselves. There's an orc who hates Tolkien, a young demon awash in teenage angst, an angel abandoned by Jesus who finds the Fates. Jensen creates a world both delicately dreamlike and all too real, where the villain is sometimes the victim and evil is not always what we thought.
If stories teach us how to be human, then the stories in Monsters are the ones we need now. These are fractured fairy tales for grown-ups, where the roots of sadism are laid bare and the horrors of human supremacism are firmly faced. But as in all of Jensen's work, love is both always possible and also a call to action. By turns macabre, melancholy, and magical, these stories and their accompanying images will leave you wondering who the real monsters are and how they can be defeated.
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Philosopher, teacher, radical activist, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, Derrick Jensen is winner of numerous awards and honors including the Eric Hoffer Book Award, USA Today's Critics' Choice Award, and Press Action's Person of the Year. He is the author of over twenty books, including Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, and Dreams, and he regularly stirs packed auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit. Jensen holds degrees in creative writing and mineral engineering physics. He lives in Crescent City, California.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Cover illustration by Geoffrey Smith
- Frontispiece illustration by Riina Kellasaare
- Introduction
- Monsters
- Illustrations by Anita Zotkina
- Demon Spawn
- Illustrations by Stephanie McMillan
- Killer
- First illustration by Geoffrey Smith, final two by Anita Zotkina
- Werecreature
- Illustrations by Anthony Chun
- Skeleton
- First and third illustrations by Cherise Clark, second by Anita Zotkina
- The Murdered Tree
- Illustrations by Sundra Ure Griffin
- Ghost
- Illustrations by Anita Zotkina
- Troll Part I
- First illustration by Geoffrey Smith, final two by Anita Zotkina
- Angel
- Illustrations by Kyle Danley
- Vampire
- First illustration by Geoffrey Smith, final two by Anita Zotkina
- Troll Part II
- Illustrations by Anthony Chun
- Orc
- Illustrations by Anita Zotkina
- Leprechaun
- Illustrations by Cherise Clark
- The Delivery
- Illustrations by Cherise Clark
- Troll Part III
- Illustrations by Kyle Danley
- Monster illustration by Roxanne Jane Mann
- Endpiece illustration by Cherise Clark
- Story Origins
- Artist Bios
