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Monster Hunters

by Guest Authors, Dayle A. Dermatis, Bonnie Elizabeth, Jamie Ferguson, Kari Kilgore, Annie Reed

Enjoy the urban fantasy stories of the Uncollected Anthology: Monster Hunters now together in this collection.

Be careful investigating a letter from the dead and pay attention in traffic. Watch out while shopping in a suburban convenience store and choose your Halloween costume wisely. Beware of stalking dragons and a woman stalking you.

Explore the Uncollected Anthology with Monster Hunters!

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Genres:
urban fantasy

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Annie Reed, Bonnie Elizabeth, Dayle A. Dermatis, Jamie Ferguson, Kari Kilgore, Mark Posey

About the Authors

Guest Authors

Uncollected Anthologies regularly has guest authors in their issues. For more information about this issue's author, click on Anthology Titles above, select Year Eleven, then the issue title.


Dayle A. Dermatis

Dayle A. Dermatis is the author or coauthor of many novels (including snarky urban fantasies Ghosted and the forthcoming Shaded and Spectered) and more than a hundred short stories in multiple genres, appearing in such venues as Fiction River, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and DAW Books.

Called the mastermind behind the Uncollected Anthology project, she also guest edits anthologies for Fiction River, and her own short fiction has been lauded in many year's best anthologies in erotica, mystery, and horror.

She lives in a book- and cat-filled historic English-style cottage in the wild greenscapes of the Pacific Northwest. In her spare time she follows Styx around the country and travels the world, which inspires her writing.

To find out where she’s wandered off to (and to get free fiction!), check out DayleDermatis.com and sign up for her newsletter or support her on Patreon.


Bonnie Elizabeth

Speculative fiction writer and retired acupuncturist, Bonnie Elizabeth uses her varied experiences to create believable but often unusual characters. Writing in a broad variety of genres, the underlying theme remains connection is magic, whether that connection is human to human, human to animal, or human to self.

Cat lovers and travelers particularly love her fictional settings where frisky felines can often be found lounging around, or giving snarky advice to main characters. Regular readers love that they can always expect the unexpected in a Bonnie Elizabeth tale.

As a multi-genre author, Bonnie has written paranormal cozy mystery, contemporary fantasy, gothic suspense, paranormal women’s fiction, and even young adult contemporary fantasy novels. Her short stories range from contemporary mystery to science fiction and secondary world fantasy.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Bonnie worked as a veterinary receptionist, cemetery administrator, and spent plenty of time in libraries and bookstores. She has hiked around Easter Island, jumped from an airplane (okay it was a tandem dive and she was attached to someone who jumped), cruised around the tip of Cape Horn, and eaten freshly caught food in a French chateau.

She lives with her husband, who is generally supportive of her writing, and her three cats, two of whom are known for sitting on the keyboard in the middle of the most intense scenes.

Website: Bonnieelizabeth.com

Shop: Mybigfatorangecat.com

Newsletter signup: https://bonnieelizabeth.substack.com/

 


Jamie Ferguson

Jamie Ferguson focuses on getting into the minds and hearts of her characters, whether she’s writing about a saloon girl in the old West, a man who discovers the barista he's in love with is a naiad, or a ghost who haunts the house she was killed in—even though that house no longer exists.

Jamie lives in Colorado, and spends her free time in a futile quest to wear out her two border collies since she hasn’t given in and gotten them their own herd of sheep.

You can find her at jamieferguson.com.


Kari Kilgore

Kari Kilgore writes fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, contemporary fiction, and everything in between. Kari’s stories have appeared in Fiction River anthology magazine, WMG Publishing’s Holiday Spectacular edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Sylvia Magazine. Kari’s mystery stories are regularly featured in Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Magazine. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, her house critters, and The Confidential Adventure Club, visit www.karikilgore.com.


Annie Reed

Annie Reed is one of the founding members of the Uncollected Anthology. She’s been called “one of the best writers of her generation” and for good reason. An award-winner in multiple genres, her stories have appeared in five year’s best mystery and crime volumes, including an amazing three years in a row in the prestigious Best Mystery Stories of the Year from series editor Otto Penzler. In addition to contributing to nearly every issue of the Uncollected Anthology since its inception, this prolific author is also a frequent contributor to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Mystery, Crime & Mayhem, and Thrill Ride Magazine. Annie and fellow UA member Robert Jeschonek are also the co-authors of the popular Gray Lady series of space opera novels. Find out more about her at anniereed.wordpress.com. Sign up for her newsletter at https://anniereed.wordpress.com/newsletter/


by Guest Authors

A letter from the grave. A sister long thought dead. A secret five hundred years in the making.

After five centuries of wandering, Sister Jacobine—known to some as Alice Fisher—returns to the crumbling ruins of the Amesbury Priory, the place where her long life began.

A letter, written in a shaking hand and signed with a name no living soul should remember, summons her home. But what waits among the ancient stones is more than nostalgia and ghosts. Old sins lie buried in the Priory’s shadow, and one of them still breathes.

When Alice’s visit turns deadly, she must confront the only other survivor of that distant past—a sister who’s grown monstrous in both body and soul. What begins as a reunion soon becomes a reckoning, fought amid the stones of the Henge and the bones of the dead.

Immortality is a gift that never stops taking…and some debts refuse to die.

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Genres:
urban fantasy

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Mark Posey

About the Author

Uncollected Anthologies regularly has guest authors in their issues. For more information about this issue's author, click on Anthology Titles above, select Year Eleven, then the issue title.


by Bonnie Elizabeth

Some hunters hunt monsters.

Others hunt hunters who kill for the sake of killing.

Now, one hunter is after a dragon. Dragons aren’t easy to kill but rumor has it, there’s an artifact in play.

Can the hunter of hunters find a way to save the dragon and be owed a very big favor?

Published:
Genres:
urban fantasy

About the Author

Speculative fiction writer and retired acupuncturist, Bonnie Elizabeth uses her varied experiences to create believable but often unusual characters. Writing in a broad variety of genres, the underlying theme remains connection is magic, whether that connection is human to human, human to animal, or human to self.

Cat lovers and travelers particularly love her fictional settings where frisky felines can often be found lounging around, or giving snarky advice to main characters. Regular readers love that they can always expect the unexpected in a Bonnie Elizabeth tale.

As a multi-genre author, Bonnie has written paranormal cozy mystery, contemporary fantasy, gothic suspense, paranormal women’s fiction, and even young adult contemporary fantasy novels. Her short stories range from contemporary mystery to science fiction and secondary world fantasy.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Bonnie worked as a veterinary receptionist, cemetery administrator, and spent plenty of time in libraries and bookstores. She has hiked around Easter Island, jumped from an airplane (okay it was a tandem dive and she was attached to someone who jumped), cruised around the tip of Cape Horn, and eaten freshly caught food in a French chateau.

She lives with her husband, who is generally supportive of her writing, and her three cats, two of whom are known for sitting on the keyboard in the middle of the most intense scenes.

Website: Bonnieelizabeth.com

Shop: Mybigfatorangecat.com

Newsletter signup: https://bonnieelizabeth.substack.com/

 


by Annie Reed

Christian uses his magic to protect the world from monsters great and small who slither and slime their way into our dimension seeking to satisfy their all-consuming hunger. Not quite human himself, Christian possesses a certain charm that tends to make him irresistible.

Especially to women like the one in a slinky red dress who watches him trap a particularly stubborn little beastie one dark night.

A woman with powerful magic of her own.

In Christian’s experience, a woman like that would only seek him out for two reasons. His reputation as a monster hunter. Or his reputation as a ladies’ man.

He should have known better.

Published:
Genres:
urban fantasy

About the Author

Annie Reed is one of the founding members of the Uncollected Anthology. She’s been called “one of the best writers of her generation” and for good reason. An award-winner in multiple genres, her stories have appeared in five year’s best mystery and crime volumes, including an amazing three years in a row in the prestigious Best Mystery Stories of the Year from series editor Otto Penzler. In addition to contributing to nearly every issue of the Uncollected Anthology since its inception, this prolific author is also a frequent contributor to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Mystery, Crime & Mayhem, and Thrill Ride Magazine. Annie and fellow UA member Robert Jeschonek are also the co-authors of the popular Gray Lady series of space opera novels. Find out more about her at anniereed.wordpress.com. Sign up for her newsletter at https://anniereed.wordpress.com/newsletter/


by Kari Kilgore

The Least Likely Spot for Unreality

Even in the depths of jetlag, Steph never expects the unusual in the land of sameness.

But a bizarre experience in a suburban convenience store startles her into paranoia.

Leaving her wondering where ordinary gives way to strange.

And whether humans stand a chance.

Can Steph solve the puzzle before the monsters triumph?

Find out in this delightful adventure deep into "The Uncanny Suburbia."

Published:
Genres:
urban fantasy

About the Author

Kari Kilgore writes fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, contemporary fiction, and everything in between. Kari’s stories have appeared in Fiction River anthology magazine, WMG Publishing’s Holiday Spectacular edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Sylvia Magazine. Kari’s mystery stories are regularly featured in Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Magazine. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, her house critters, and The Confidential Adventure Club, visit www.karikilgore.com.


by Dayle A. Dermatis

Coyote shapeshifter Elena sits sweating in her car with a broken AC on a hot Southern California day. During rush hour. Trapped.

Then she scents something horrifying: terrified animals. More trapped than she is.

Her abilities—both coyote and human—stand between freeing the animals, getting taken herself…or killed.

Because people who traffic wild animals tend to get rid of anyone standing in the way of their big payment.

(Want more Elena? Check out another of her adventures in the tense and thrilling “Dominant Species”!)

Published:
Genres:
urban fantasy

About the Author

Dayle A. Dermatis is the author or coauthor of many novels (including snarky urban fantasies Ghosted and the forthcoming Shaded and Spectered) and more than a hundred short stories in multiple genres, appearing in such venues as Fiction River, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and DAW Books.

Called the mastermind behind the Uncollected Anthology project, she also guest edits anthologies for Fiction River, and her own short fiction has been lauded in many year's best anthologies in erotica, mystery, and horror.

She lives in a book- and cat-filled historic English-style cottage in the wild greenscapes of the Pacific Northwest. In her spare time she follows Styx around the country and travels the world, which inspires her writing.

To find out where she’s wandered off to (and to get free fiction!), check out DayleDermatis.com and sign up for her newsletter or support her on Patreon.


by Jamie Ferguson

When Allie’s twin brother "accidentally" activates an ancient portal buried deep beneath a castle in Faerie, the siblings find themselves staring through the Gate into another world—one they've only read about in scattered, incomplete texts.

According to the few records that remain, world number 17 was the prison-realm of the Banished—exiled long ago for reasons no one remembers. Probably.

Cautious by nature and driven by responsibility, Allie intends only to take a quick look. But what begins as a reconnaissance mission turns into something much more complicated... and far more personal. Because on the other side of the Gate, she finds a world that isn’t abandoned, a people who have made exile into identity—and a woman whose presence upends everything Allie thought she knew about her own heart.

A standalone short story of magic, mystery, ancient tech, and unexpected connection—set in a world where opening the wrong door is always the beginning of something more.

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Jamie Ferguson

About the Author

Jamie Ferguson focuses on getting into the minds and hearts of her characters, whether she’s writing about a saloon girl in the old West, a man who discovers the barista he's in love with is a naiad, or a ghost who haunts the house she was killed in—even though that house no longer exists.

Jamie lives in Colorado, and spends her free time in a futile quest to wear out her two border collies since she hasn’t given in and gotten them their own herd of sheep.

You can find her at jamieferguson.com.


by Tami Veldura

Max didn’t mean to punch an ice tiger through a city bus, but in his defense—he warned it.

The portal to the spirit realm was supposed to stay sealed. Instead, it's raining magical frost beasts, the vampire in charge is having an existential crisis, and Max is once again solving problems with his fists and zero backup plan. Good thing he’s got Duchess, his pint-sized hellhound with a god complex and a fireball for every occasion.

Explosions? Check. Sarcasm? Constant. Collateral damage? …Look, it's called We Break Things Professionally for a reason.

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Genres:
urban fantasy

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Tami Veldura

About the Author

Tami Veldura is an enby/aro/ace author of queer fiction. They have published short stories in anthologies Fresh Starts, Hauntings, Love Among The Thorns, Love Is Like A Box Of Chocolates, Street Magic (a Diamond Quill Book Of The Year winner), the magazine Galaxy’s Edge, and they are a contributing member of the scifi magazine Boundary Shock Quarterly. They publish new work every month, crossing every genre, but always featuring queer characters and found families.
Tami's stories often feature a motley crew or an underdog, they often write about chosen family, and even if it's scifi, they always try to squeeze a dragon in.

Website: https://www.tamiveldura.com/
Download a free short story here: https://bf.tamiveldura.com/wyfp6irbgx


by Guest Authors

Just Vivian’s luck that getting her fossil meant stopping a war before it began.

Digging fossils on Turtle Mountain always turned into an adventure. Vivan didn’t mind the cacti, the rattlers, the icy cold nights. Part of the gig, you know?

Getting good fossils, especially Vivan’s delicate tiny fossils, took effort. Patience. Iron-clad determination.

And negotiating skills.

Because when you collected magical dragon and unicorn fossils, their descendants had Very Firm Opinions on just what needed to happen, when and, most importantly, how.

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Genres:
urban fantasy

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Meyari McFarland

About the Author

Uncollected Anthologies regularly has guest authors in their issues. For more information about this issue's author, click on Anthology Titles above, select Year Eleven, then the issue title.


The Fetch City Files

by Kari Kilgore

Facing a Potential Pollination Disaster

Sebbie Mosarra handles strange happenings all over Fetch City. Some stranger than others.

But a panicked call from the experimental wing of the botanical gardens startles even her.

A threat to more than Fetch City looms, and buzzes, and flutters.

Can Sebbie contain the trouble before all havoc breaks loose?

Published:
Genres:
urban fantasy

Tags:
Kari Kilgore

About the Author

Kari Kilgore writes fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, contemporary fiction, and everything in between. Kari’s stories have appeared in Fiction River anthology magazine, WMG Publishing’s Holiday Spectacular edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Sylvia Magazine. Kari’s mystery stories are regularly featured in Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Magazine. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, her house critters, and The Confidential Adventure Club, visit www.karikilgore.com.