A fantastically written and edited book dedicated to analyzing and promoting the best ways possible to craft compelling monsters in contemporary horror and science fiction material is entitled, Writing Monsters. The book's writer, Phillip Athans, not only borrows examples of successful and awe-inspiring creatures from literature, but cites familiar ones from film and television in order to substantiate his point. In the simplest of terms, Athans' text is a means by which to educate fledgling authors the proverbial "building blocks" by which to efficaciously creature a monster of ghastly proportions that will successfully shock, disgust, and/or terrify potential readers. Throughout the book, Athans analyzes the themes certain monsters symbolize, the archetypes of certain infamous monsters, and, most importantly, how these ideas can best be portrayed on the fiction landscape. Athans' text is uncomplicated, unpretentious, and therefore accessible to any reader and lover of speculative fiction.
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