WLW is a
recurring blog segment in which I highlight a book I have on my wish
list. Sometimes it's a new release, sometimes a beloved classic, and
sometimes it's a hidden gem.
Here
comes one more monster book for my wish list, and another anthology
to boot. I have been turned into a fan of urban fantasy over the last
few years, but I tend to stick to novel-length fiction when it comes
to that genre. There are plenty of anthologies, however, and this one
really caught my eye.
Those
Who Fight Monsters,
which was published last year by EDGE, is a melange of established
monster hunters all brought together by Justin
Gustainis,
author of a couple UF series in his own right. Fourteen authors,
including Justin, offer up short stories containing characters from
their respective UF novel series. In Justin's case, the story's based
in his Quincey
Morris series,
while Rachel Caine has a story included from her Outcast
Season series.
For a reader like me, who has yet to read
the novels of nearly all the authors who contributed, this book feels
like it would be a great sampler from which to decide whose novels
I'd like to read. If nothing else, I'm sure I'd be entertained by the
brief adventures their characters go on.
How about you? Have you found anthologies
like this to be a helpful way of deciding whether to give a
particular author's novels a go?
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