June SFFKit: Monsters!

The June SFFKit's focus is Monsters, and there are so many to choose from!



From cryptids like you see here on to the monsters made famous by classic monster movies--Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, Frankenstein's monster, etc.--there are so many that have come on into the Science Fiction and Fantasy space!

I invite you to interpret monsters broadly, and make sure to let us know what you're reading! If you're stuck, though, here are some ideas...

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks (adventure sff/ horror with sasquatch)
House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (cozy sff with all sorts of monsters!)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (need I say more?)
The Expanse Series (James Corey) (horror/sci-fi with monsters)
The Moon Fall series (James Rollins) (grimdark with some fantastic monsters)
Humans are the Problem: A Monster's Anthology (all sorts of monsters)

...so, what monster are you hanging out with this month?

As I did not read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien for February's Creatures and Critters as I intended, I hope to get to it in June. It has an evil dragon, trolls, orcs and wargs!

I am planning on reading Race the Sands by Sarah Beth Durst.

Planning to read Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky, which features orcs and manticores.

I'm planning on hanging out with The Maleficent Seven

I'm thinking about The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Jane Webb, which Wikipedia tells us was the first book to have a revivified mummy as a character

I’m probably going to read either Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova or Grendel by John Gardner. Grendel has been languishing on the shelf for far too long, but I’m drawn to the shiny new Monstrilio and will probably choose it if it becomes available at the library.

I can already tell this month's challenge is going to add oodles of books to my TBR. The only one mentioned so far that I've already read is Grendel!

I am considering reading the sequel to Only a Monster by Vanessa Len for this challenge - Never a Hero.