Datlow, Ellen (ed) - The Monstrous / Датлоу, Эллен (ред) - Чудовищный [2015, epub, ENG]

A Natural History of Autumn short story by Jeffrey Ford Ashputtle / Золушка novelette by Peter Straub Giants in the Earth short story by Dale Bailey The Beginning of the Year Without a Summer short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan A Wish from a Bone novelette by Gemma Files The Last, Clean, Bright Summer short story by Livia Llewellyn The Totals short story by Adam-Troy Castro The Chill Clutch of the Unseen / Мёртвая хватка невидимого short story by Kim Newman Down Among the Dead Men / Среди мертвецов novelette by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Catching Flies short story by Carole Johnstone Our Turn Too Will One Day Come novelette by Brian Hodge Grindstone short story by Stephen Graham Jones Doll Hands / Кукольные ручонки novelette by Adam Nevill How I Met the Ghoul short story by Sofia Samatar Jenny Come to Play novelette by Terry Dowling Miss Ill-Kept Runt short story by Glen Hirshberg Chasing Sunset short story by A. C. Wise The Monster Makers novelette by Steve Rasnic Tem Piano Man short story by Christopher Fowler Corpsemouth / Трупорот novelette by John Langan

PEOPLE THINK THAT teaching little children has something to do with helping other people, something to do with service. People think that if you teach little children, you must love them. People get what they need from thoughts like this. People think that if you happen to be very fat and are a person who acts happy and cheerful all the time, you are probably pretending to be that way in order to make them forget how fat you are or cause them to forgive you for being so fat. They make this assumption, thinking you are so stupid that you imagine that you’re getting away with this charade. From this assumption, they get confidence in the superiority of their intelligence over yours, and they get to pity you, too. Those figments, those stepsisters, came to me and said, Don’t you know that we want to help you? They came to me and said, Can you tell us what your life is like? . . .