Monsters is a collection of eight science fiction short stories by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt; written during 1940 and 1950, they were assembled by Forrest J. Ackerman in 1965.
“...they defiled...they begot giants and monsters...they begot, and, behold, all the earth was corrupted...with its blood and by the hand of...giant's which did not suffice for them and...and they were seeking to devour many...the monsters attacked it.”
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
“The female monster is certainly no deadlier than the male, but she is different. She is a sucking, strangling, trapping creature.”
“Monkrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.”
“I think the evidence will show that this is a sad case. There are no monsters here.”
“The monster’s power is one of sexual difference from the normal male. In this difference he is remarkably like the woman in the eyes of the traumatized male: a biological freak with impossible and threatening appetites that suggest a frightening potency precisely where the normal male would perceive a lack.”
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Monsters is a collection of eight science fiction short stories by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt; written during 1940 and 1950, they were assembled by Forrest J. Ackerman in 1965.
Introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman.
"Not Only Dead Men" (1942)
"Final Command" (1949)
"War of the Nerves" (1950)
"Enchanted Village" (1950)
"Concealment" (1943)
"The Sea Thing" (1940)
"The Monster" (1948)
"Vault of the Beast" (1940)
