Big Lizard in My Backyard

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All There in the (Monster) Manual are stories based on creatures from the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Over 2022 I released a different story fitting the theme every single week and I’ve now expanded to Dungeons & Dragons’ Monsters of the Multiverse and even the Pathfinder Bestiary. Could be fantasy, science fiction, horror, or something else entirely! Check them out on the main page of the website.

This Week’s Inspiration: Quasit

Trigger Warning: Cruelty to Animals (and, Less Importantly, People)

It started with an ordinary, hard boiled egg. Now every time Wesley feeds the lizard he is rewarded in some mysterious way, money, a new job, women. But every time he does the lizard is also getting bigger, and hungrier.

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Bogeyman

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All There in the (Monster) Manual are stories based on creatures from the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Over 2022 I released a different story fitting the theme every single week and I’ve now expanded to Dungeons & Dragons’ Monsters of the Multiverse and even the Pathfinder Bestiary. Could be fantasy, science fiction, horror, or something else entirely! Check them out on the main page of the website.

This Week’s Inspiration: Flesh Golem

The Western Front in 1916, two British privates uncover a tunnel stretching beneath no man’s land. Finding it abandoned and unguarded, they venture inside only to discover there is far worse than Germans lurking below the battleground. A creature of hate and pain and fear, the Bogeyman.

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Human Relations

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All There in the (Monster) Manual are stories based on creatures from the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Over 2022 I released a different story fitting the theme every single week and I’ve now expanded to Dungeons & Dragons’ Monsters of the Multiverse and even the Pathfinder Bestiary. Could be fantasy, science fiction, horror, or something else entirely! Check them out on the main page of the website.

This Week’s Inspiration: Bone Devil

The aliens come with offers of peace and prosperity that sound too good to be true. Maybe they are, that’s not Paul’s job to find out. His job is simply to help the aliens relate better to humans so they can spread their message, but how to do so when everything about them inspires absolute terror?

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Hurting Hand

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All There in the (Monster) Manual are stories based on creatures from the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Over 2022 I released a different story fitting the theme every single week and I’ve now expanded to Dungeons & Dragons’ Monsters of the Multiverse and even the Pathfinder Bestiary. Could be fantasy, science fiction, horror, or something else entirely! Check them out on the main page of the website.

This Week’s Inspiration: Crawling Claw

Trigger Warning: Gore. A lot of it.

Mickey Scarselli is dead. Blown into a thousand and one burning pieces. But in his very final moments, his thirst for vengeance was so great even death won’t stop it. Torn from its wrist by the blast, his decaying right hand is out to find out who killed him and why, and to slaughter every last one of those involved.

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Missing

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All There in the (Monster) Manual are stories based on creatures from the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Over 2022 I released a different story fitting the theme every single week and I’ve now expanded to Dungeons & Dragons’ Monsters of the Multiverse and even the Pathfinder Bestiary. Could be fantasy, science fiction, horror, or something else entirely! Check them out on the main page of the website.

This Week’s Inspiration: Troll

Something lurks under the bridge in the middle of the park. Something that’s been stealing local pets and waiting for more. Something hungry, and vicious, and strange.

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US of Ed’s 2023 Wrap: Living in Interesting Times

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“Be strong, because it’s going to take all of our fortitudes, external and internal, to make it through next year.”

Ed and Sean look back on the biggest stories of 2023 in their final podcast of the year, most of which continue to drag us forward in 2024. Gaza, Ukraine, Donald Trump’s legal issues and escalating rhetoric on race, the Biden agenda and preparing for the 2024 campaign, the climate crisis, opioids, and a hopeful upswing for the economy.

Subscribe or follow US of Ed here for when we return in 2024!

The Heart of the Princess

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All There in the (Monster) Manual are stories based on creatures from the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Over 2022 I released a different story fitting the theme every single week and I’ve now expanded to Dungeons & Dragons’ Monsters of the Multiverse and even the Pathfinder Bestiary. Could be fantasy, science fiction, horror, or something else entirely! Check them out on the main page of the website.

This Week’s Inspiration: Iron Golem

To win the heart of the princess, Theo must venture deep into the land of the dead, defeat a monster and climb a tower. But be warned, sickness and other dangers lurk within these strange ruins.

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The Lion House

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All There in the (Monster) Manual are stories based on creatures from the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. Over 2022 I released a different story fitting the theme every single week and I’ve now expanded to Dungeons & Dragons’ Monsters of the Multiverse and even the Pathfinder Bestiary. Could be fantasy, science fiction, horror, or something else entirely! Check them out on the main page of the website.

This Week’s Inspiration: Stone Golem

For decades, strange stories have surrounded the property known to locals as ‘The Lion House’ thanks to its twin guardian lion statues. With a plan to rob the home’s new resident, media millionaire Michael Lu, tonight four home invaders will find out there’s more to the stories than they thought.

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