Monstrous Tales: Haunting Encounters with Britain's Mythical Beasts

Monstrous Tales gathers nine new and original stories inspired by Britain’s mythical beasts and regional folklore. Its settings stretch from the beaches of Orkney and the Welsh mountains to the Derbyshire peaks and the Cornish moors, bringing creatures such as finfolk, plague monsters, giant slugs and the Beast of Bodmin Moor into unsettling modern fiction.

Edited by Rosie Andrews, the anthology includes stories by Andrews, Jenn Ashworth, Sunyi Dean, Janice Hallett, Jane Johnson, Dan Jones, Abir Mukherjee, Rebecca Netley and Stuart Turton. Some tales draw on ancient beings bound to forests, mountains and coastlines; others imagine monsters surviving in cities, where new legends take shape in the shadows.