Girls of your dreams. Or nightmares. Maybe both? The acclaimed Jonathan Evan Hudson launches five new adult paranormal short stories of fast-paced paranormal fantasy and earns his place among the best storytellers of our time.

Meet the greek demigod Jason. Hates hunting monster girls. Stuck hunting monster girls. On yet another training mission. What could go wrong? What he never imagined. And the cost: more than he could ever imagine. Grab the first spellbinding urban fantasy novel of a stunning duology and you’ll never look at Greek Mythology the same again!

Demigods and monsters fight to the death. Only to get reborn again. And fight to the death again. At a gym but not a gym: a monster hotspot! The demigod Jason hates hunting monster girls. Stuck hunting monster girls again. And his simple mission proves far worse than he ever imagined. And the stakes: world-changing. Once again join Jason in this exciting urban fantasy novel. Grab this conclusion of this amazing duology and you’ll never look at Greek Myth the same again!

Meet Devin Walker as the obscure superhero Shadow Raven. Controller of shadows and overall heroic badass. But with the sinister bloodlust of a vampire. Even during a hellishly ridiculous car ride. Thirsting for his now-gorgeous childhood sweetheart and her beautiful girlfriends … especially when they go full supervillain. If he can bring himself to fight her. Big if. Once again Devin charges into rip-roaring danger in this stunning second book of the superb Vampires vs Vampires, Superpowered Trilogy. If you love raunchy action full of danger and supernaturally beautiful babes, then you’ll love Stake Me Thrice!

To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth 'monstrueux' is more likely to denote hidden intentions, unspoken desires. Several shifts are at work in this word history, and in what Othello calls the 'mighty magic' of monsters; these shifts can be described in a number of ways. The clearest, and most compelling, is the translation or migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy, from descriptions of creatures found in the external world to the drama of human motivation, of sexual and political identity. This interdisciplinary study of monsters and their meanings advances by way of a series of close readings supported by the exploration of a wide range of texts and images, from many diverse fields, which all concern themselves with illicit coupling, unarranged marriages, generic hybridity, and the politics of monstrosity. Engaging with recent, influential accounts of monstrosity - from literary critical work (Huet, Greenblatt, Thomson Burnett, Hampton), to histories of science and 'bio-politics' (Wilson, Céard, Foucault, Daston and Park, Agamben) - it focusses on the ways in which monsters give particular force, colour, and shape to the imagination; the image at its centre is the triangulated picture of Andromeda, Perseus and the monster, approaching. The centre of the book's gravity is French culture, but it also explores Shakespeare, and Italian, German, and Latin culture, as well as the ways in which the monstrous tales and images of Antiquity were revived across the period, and survive into our own times.

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature, and cultural studies, this volume uniquely examines creative applications of fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores how the fairy tale has become a genre that flourishes on film, on TV, and in digital media, as well as in the older technologies of print, performance, and the visual arts. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history, the visual arts and cultural studies, this book explores such themes and topics as: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power. A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (6-volume set) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity is also available as a part of a 6-volume set, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, tracing fairy tales from antiquity to the present day, available in print, or within a fully-searchable digital library accessible through institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.