Monsters, Stories From The Attic
Monsters, Stories From The Attic
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Monsters

Author: Stories From The Attic

Narrator: Robin McConnel

Unabridged: 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/24/2020


Synopsis

It was the same day that I received my Ph.D. that my grandmother shattered everything I thought I knew.

In total, I had been studying for 7 years, beginning with zoology, and then transferring to straight biology, completing my masters a year later, and whilst taking up teaching duties at the university, completing my Ph.D. over the following years. By that point, I was an academic of some standing and the papers I had written had gained some attention within some select circles interested in those sorts of things, but I was tired. Seven years is a long time.

The process of reaching these milestones in my academic progress was exhausting. The hours and intellectual demands taxing on both the body and mind. Not to mention the crippling homesickness that I had felt ever since starting my undergraduate qualification.

I had left my home in Turkey aged nineteen for a scholarship place at a top university in the United States. Whilst I loved my friends, the lecturers, and the challenge of the courses I completed there, and thanked God every day for the opportunities I had been given, from day one, I felt the nagging weight on my shoulders, the feeling in my...

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe on November 19, 2012

Back when I heard that Butler University’s new press, Pressgang, was hunting for literary monsters, I immediately thought of a wonderful story I’d read a few years previously in the Virginia Quarterly Review called "Creature Feature," by John McNally. Unfortunately I was busy or timid and did not gu......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on December 31, 2024

Truly unfortunate trim size and it seems PRESSGANG (looks like from Butler University) is no more. A stellar lineup of writers here--Kevin Wilson, Kelly Link, Kate Bernheimer, Alissa Nutting--and a really great Mothman comic. Probably been on my TBR longest of anything I read this year and I'm glad......more

Goodreads review by Aaron (Typographical Era) on April 09, 2012

It’s hard to know exactly where to begin when reviewing a collection of stories from multiple authors. As a whole Monsters is a beast of a collection which demands the reader’s attention straight out of the gate from its hilarious opening which finds editor B.J. Hollars retelling his experience at a......more

Goodreads review by Tim on July 17, 2012

A pretty solid anthology--really only one dud in the bunch. Hollars also edited You Must Be This Tall to Ride, and he has pretty good taste in authors and stories. Monsters has some of my favorite contemporary writers. The standouts for me were Jedediah Berry's "Inheritance" and Bonnie Jo Campbell's......more