{"id":3014,"date":"2024-11-21T23:09:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?page_id=3014"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:09:28","slug":"praise-for-beyond-here-be-monsters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?page_id=3014","title":{"rendered":"Praise for BEYOND HERE BE MONSTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Collections never get enough love and I don\u2019t know why. Collections show you the breadth and depth of a writer. Through their variety, the author\u2019s broad scope. Or the intensity of honed-in focus. Or miraculously a combination of both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Collections demonstrate the writer\u2019s mastery of the craft because short forms can\u2019t afford the occasional lags, drags, and kerfuffles we find \u2013 and can find acceptable — in novels. Instead their every writerly level must be seamless, while part of that hard-won blood, sweat, and tears seamlessness must be a feeling of effortlessness equal to that of a perfectly composed musical score, a perfectly performed ballet, or a perfect feast at a five star restaurant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“In their essence, collections are the concentrated pleasure of delectable individual bites, one separate intriguing dish after the other. This collection is a feast of those bites, Greg Frost\u2019s personally assembled deep rich flavors, one after another. Do yourself a favor. Get this collection. And love it.”
\n– Michaela Roessner, author of The Stars Compel<\/em><\/div>\n
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“Beyond Here Be Monsters<\/i> is an abode of dark, dark parables. In these stories\u00a0Gregory Frost demonstrates craft, intelligence, a sense of humor, and a willingness to cross genre borders without a visa.<\/p>\n

“Trust me, you\u2019ve never read anything like \u201cIll Met in Illium,\u201d a secret history of the Trojan War\u2014with vampires\u2014told in Homeric verse. Nor \u201cThe Seals of New R\u2019lyeh,\u201d in which two petty criminals attempt to pull a heist in a New York City transformed by its new ruler, Cthulhu. In \u201cThe Dingus,\u201d hard-boiled 40s-Bogart-movie boxer-turned-cab driver Meyers tries to find out how his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Kid Willette managed to get himself torn to pieces at Red\u2019s Roadhouse.<\/p>\n

“Frost is a master of the small details that make a character come to life, that take a story from merely entertaining to haunting. Plus, when he isn\u2019t scaring you to death\u2014and sometimes in the midst of it\u2014he is very funny.”
\n\u2014John Kessel, Nebula Award-winning author of\u00a0Pride and Prometheus<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Dark Ride<\/i><\/p>\n

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“Greg Frost sets his fantastical stories in the equally strange realities of history. Other times, other cultures. But I always know that however it goes, I’m in for a good ride.”
\n\u2014Maureen McHugh, author of\u00a0China Mountain Zhang<\/em><\/p>\n

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“The overall tone [of these stories] is much darker than I expected them to be \u2013 vampires, werewolves, messages from the afterlife, and other unsettling and supernatural elements predominate. You might actually consider this a collection of horror stories rather than fantasy. They are mostly dark in tone as well as subject matter. There are no stories of princes and princesses, dragons or fairies, or any of the predominate trappings of contemporary fantasy. There are also no bad stories. Very much worth your time.”
\n\u2014Don D’Ammassa, http:\/\/www.dondammassa.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Collections never get enough love and I don\u2019t know why. Collections show you the breadth and depth of a writer. Through their variety, the author\u2019s broad scope. Or the intensity of honed-in focus. Or miraculously a combination of both. “Collections demonstrate the writer\u2019s mastery of the craft because short forms\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3008,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-onecolumn.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3014","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3014\/revisions\/3016"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}