Horror

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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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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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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Oblivion

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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: Demons

For four years, Tochtli has fought the Tlatoani’s endless war to carve out territory from the demons that surround their empire on all sides. The only reward he and his fellow boy-warriors can expect is a death in battle and the promised ascension to the afterlife that brings. All he really wants, however, is a little more sleep.

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Rats

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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: Swarm of Rats

Rattus norvegicus, the common brown rat, one of the world’s most adaptive species besides humans themselves. When government scientists aimed to turn them into a weapon, they didn’t need to make them larger or more vicious. They simply made them hungrier.

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Spider’s Web

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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: Phase Spider

Seth is being stalked by a giant spider only he can see, that appears and vanishes without warning. As his world unravels, is it all in his head or could the spider represent a very real danger?

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