Literature / Beasts

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Beasts: 16 More Weird Stories is Brendan Detzner's second collection of scary, weird, funny, and scary-weird-funny short stories. You can read it here.

Tropes in each story:

In the Fall

• The Sociopath
• Rapid Aging
• Benevolent Monsters

The Chupacabra Versus Sasquatch Variations 1-9

• Chupacabra
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
• The Multiverse

Spirits of the Wind

• Jazz
• Meet Cute
• Amnesiac God

A Day and Two Nights When I Was Twenty

• The Un-Reveal
• Free-Range Children
• Came Back Wrong

The Return of Uncle Hungry's Pizza Time Fun Band

• Suck E. Cheese's
• Wrench Wench
• Who Wants to Live Forever?

I-65

• Disproportionate Retribution
• Road Trip Plot
• The Corrupter

Two Nights Only

• Stage Magician
• Blue-and-Orange Morality
• Exact Words

PCBF

• Artificial Intelligence
• The Hedonist
• Cloning Gambit

Wetwork

• The Great Flood
• Human Sacrifice
• Rain Means Death

The Envelope Job

• Private Detective
• The Mothman
• Blackmail

Ebb Tide

• Came Back Wrong
• Love Triangle
• Our Ghosts Are Different

The Gardener Estate

• Dem Bones
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself
• Who Wants to Live Forever?

Blue Eyes

• Jekyll & Hyde
• Creepy Basement
• The Masochism Tango

The Specimen

• Bizarre Alien Biology
• Kidnapped for Experimentation
• Alien Invasion

Shadow

• A Boy and His X
• Evil Uncle
• Blue-Collar Warlock

The Walk Home

• Parental Neglect
• Athletically Challenged
• Kids Are Cruel