Short Story

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 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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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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Rattler

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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: Copper Dragon

A monstrous shadow drapes itself across the prairies of a new frontier, a young, male dragon in the process of carving out a territory for himself. A cattle baron and his posse set out to destroy the beast, and not all of them will return.

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The Dragon in the Dollhouse

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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: Faerie Dragon

Things are going missing in Miranda’s house. Mysterious lights are moving behind the windows of the old dollhouse in the corner of her room. Ignored by the adults around her, a little girl finds a friend in an unexpected place.

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