“When she gets up close, it’s bigger than she imagined, a mass of flesh and hair towering above her, and as wide as a house. Whatever it is is dead, long dead, and yet it doesn’t seem entirely motionless, as if it’s slowly exhaling. It smells of fish just on the edge of rotting, and its hair still drips with water. She can find no features; no eyes or fins or tail, just flesh piled on indistinct flesh.”
Pacific Monsters is the fourth volume in a coffee table book series from Fox Spirit Books with dark fiction and art about monsters from around the world. It includes my story “Into the Sickly Light”, a story about small towns, queer relationships, political change, and something that washes up on a Gisborne beach…
You can purchase Pacific Monsters from Amazon.