Six stories of massive monster mayhem where the creatures are huge and the destruction is high! Two women locked in a blood feud in the old west struggle to kill each other only to find something much more sinister has a taste for their flesh! A college slacker shares an unfortunate experience with a duck and a rat and finds he has to save the world. Oh the things he will have to do...oh gawd the things! With nothing left for them in their underground society, three young siblings escape to the city on the surface. can they elude the giant beast their elders worship as a god or are they fated to be lost souls? It should have been a simple ride home on the ferry but something old and long forgotten has awakened and needs to feed The long arm of the law isn't the only thing to fear during prohibition. there are things hiding in the backwoods more dangerous than G-men or exploding stills. A sheriff looking towards retirement in a sleep coastal town is about to find that the sea hides secrets and horrors that are ready to come ashore and turn his dream into a nightmare.

Giant monsters whose every roar and footstep shakes the earth, whose simple stroll through a city wreaks havoc: KAIJU! And even though humankind has never really seen such monsters - we tremble at the thought of them and love to shiver as their screen versions make mayhem: the beast from twenty-thousand fathoms, Godzilla demolishing Tokyo, the massive creature in Cloverfield destroying New York, all of Earth warring with the colossal monsters in Pacific Rim. Now, for the first time, a definitive anthology that gathers a wide range of larger-than-life short fiction with creatures that run a gargantuan gamut: the stealthy gabbleduck of Neal Asher's Polity universe; Gary McMahon's huge sea-born terror; An Owomoyela 's incredibly tall alien invaders; Frank Wu's city-razing, eighty-foot-high, fire-breathing lizard; Lavie Tidhar's titanic ship-devouring monstrosity; a really big Midwest US smackdown related by Jeremiah Tolbert . . . and many more mega-monster stories to feed your need for killer kaiju! With an introduction by Robert Hood, co-editor of the groundbreaking, Ditmar Award-winning Daikaiju: Giant Monster Tales and host of Undead Backbrain, the premier website for matters relating to giant monsters.

To encourage and engage reluctant readers, the language level has been carefully controlled so struggling readers can get to grips with the language while still getting involved in the stories.