Rose Blackthorn

In Deathlehem, the masses hailThe Blessed one was bornThey gathered in a mangerOn that black December mornAmong the screams of Mother MaryThe Babe from her tornDark tidings corrupting hope and joy So rest merry gentlemenLet Satan's child playBurning bodies light this Christmas treeIn Deathlehem todayWelcome back, folks. And for you newbies wondering where you are, that would be Deathlehem... ...where enemies meet on the battlefield to set aside their differences on this holiest of nights-only to be tormented by a legendary she-demon... ...where irons bars won't keep brothers from spending Christmaswith their mother-much to her dismay... ...where the search for the perfect tree turns into a bloody nightmare... ...where an imprisoned evil has a young couple and their daughter wishing they'd stayed at home for the holidays... Twenty-five more tales of holiday horror to benefitThe Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

NO VAMPIRES... NO WEREWOLVES... NO ZOMBIES... BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. You've heard their stories before and you're screaming for a different breed of horror. Those monsters have had their moments in the moonlight and now it's time for us to bury them in their graves. Let's lock them in their coffins, pierce their hearts with wooden stakes and shoot them between their rotting eyes with silver bullets from an AK-47. You wanted some new monsters. You got 'em. Say "hello" to the ones that are still hidden by the shadows. The ones that peer from behind the gravestones with multi-faceted eyes and crawl from the sewers on slime-covered tentacles. The ones that stain the pages within this tome with the blood of their victims. NOT YOUR AVERAGE MONSTER: A BESTIARY OF HORRORS 22 new monstrosities unleashed upon the world from the deviant minds of: Kya Aliana D. Morgan Ballmer Rose Blackthorn John Bruni The Behrg Jeff Carlson Mark Carroll Adrian Chamberlin Adrian Cole Richard Dansky Jeremy Hepler Beau Johnson Pete Kahle Rob Lammle Esther M. Leiper-Estabrooks Marc Lyth Christine Morgan Billie Sue Mosiman Megan Neumann Jason Parent Joshua Rex Seth Skorkowsky THIS AIN'T YOUR DADDY'S NIGHTMARE