How long had the beast hunted that empty stretch of lonely highway? An alien monstrosity stalks the Australian outback. Can an average guy outwit it, or will he end up as prey?
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Astronaut Exorcism
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! Could be fantasy, science fiction, horror, or something else entirely, check them out on the main page of the website.
This Week’s Inspiration: Horned Devil
An astronaut has been possessed by a demon on the Babel Space Station. Exorcist and priest Francis Flannagan has no choice but to brave the final frontier and confront the creature in this alien battleground, 400 kilometres above the surface of the Earth.
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For 2022, I’ve been wanting to write more ‘creature features’ and generally improve my short story writing. My partner got me a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual for my birthday so I came up with the idea of writing a story every week based on a different creature from that – All There in the (Monster) Manual. Hope you enjoy!
Inspiration: Modron
Who is he? Where is he? How did he get here? An old man wrestles with his decaying mental state and the mysteries of the strange windowless, peopleless facility in which he has been trapped for as long as he can remember.
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For 2022, I’ve been wanting to write more ‘creature features’ and generally improve my short story writing. My partner got me a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual for my birthday so I came up with the idea of writing a story every week based on a different creature from that – All There in the (Monster) Manual. Hope you enjoy!
This Week’s Inspiration: Flumph
After failing to listen to their mother, a youngster slips outside the borders of safety and has an unforgettable encounter.
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For 2022, I’ve been wanting to write more ‘creature features’ and generally improve my short story writing. My partner got me a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual for my birthday so I came up with the idea of writing a story every week based on a different creature from that – All There in the (Monster) Manual. Hope you enjoy!
This Week’s Inspiration: Kraken
Asteroid miners discover the frozen corpse of an alien creature over two kilometres in length on the outskirts of our solar system. The first proof humanity is not alone in the universe. But where did it come from, and how did it reach us after four billion years adrift in the depths of space?
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