![]() ![]() Shaun Hamill has crafted the best sort of horror story: one full of love and dread that will have you rethinking your definition of what a monster is." "Exquisitely written, A Cosmology of Monsters is both beautiful and haunting. Tudor, author of The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place You won't read anything like it this year."Ĭ. It's a book about family, love, loss, obsession. A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill is just such a book. "Sometimes you read a book and you know it's special. A Cosmology of Monsters is as weird and compelling and ambitious a horror novel as you could possibly want."Ĭarmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties "A monster stalks a family across generations a hidden city beckons from beyond perception trauma and human frailty and loss bear their terrible fangs. If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. ![]() Hamill's prose is simple, and simply beautiful. Horror only works when we care for the people involved, and because we care for the Turners, their nightmare becomes ours. It succeeds because these are good, likeable people that we root for they could be our neighbors. Lovecraft with a contemporary story of a family under threat of destruction from supernatural forces. "Shaun Hamill's A Cosmology of Monsters brilliantly combines the mythos of H.P. ![]()
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