While creating the comic Reading The Weird for Weirdfictionreview.com, Leah Thomas came up with these sketches of some of the monsters, human and otherwise, from fourteen of the stories collected in The Weird compendium—perfect for 12 Days of Monsters! Well, actually 15, as the gnole appears in stories by both Lord Dunsany and Margaret St. Clair.
“The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges
Anthony from ‘It’s a Good Life’ by Jerome Bixby
“The Axolotl” by Julio Cortazar
“The Delicate” by Jeffrey Ford
“The Dunwich Horror” by H.P. Lovecraft
A Gnole
“Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands” by Garry Kilworth
“The Ice Man” by Haruki Murakami
“The Little Dirty Girl” by Joanna Russ
“The Long Sheet” by William Sansom
“The Salamander” by Merce Rodoreda
“The Sandkings” by George R.R. Martin
Skull from “The Complete Gentleman” by Amos Tutuola
Willow-Beast from “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood
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