Famous Monsters

UK: Pocket Books, 1995; PB.
ISBN-10: 0671853007
ISBN-13: 978-0671853006

With an introduction by Paul McAuley.

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Table of contents:

• ‘The Big Fish’
• ‘The Blitz Spirit’
• ‘Famous Monsters’
• ‘Out of the Night’
• ‘When the Full Moon is Bright’
• ‘The Pale Spirit People’
• ‘The Pierce Arrow Stalled, And…’
• ‘Pitbull Brittan’
• ‘A Quarter to Three’
• ‘Ratting’
• ‘The Snow Sculptures of Xanadu’
• ‘Three on a Match’
• ‘Ubermensch!’
• ‘Where the Bodies Are Buried’
• ‘Where the Bodies Are Buried II: Sequel Hook’

Quote:

I pushed the door and found myself in the temple’s waiting room. It was what I’d expected: subdued lighting, old but bad paintings, a few semi-pornographic statuettes, a strong smell of last night’s incense to cover the fish stink. It had as much religious atmosphere as a two-dollar bordello.

“Yoo-hoo,” I said, “Dagon calling…”

from “The Big Fish”