Strange New Moons
by Stephen Kozeniewski, Kayleigh Dobbs, Tim Lebbon, Mary SanGiovanni, Simon Clark, Rebecca Rowland, John Durgin, Somer Canon, Amanda Headlee, Matthew R. Davis, Keawe Melina Patrick, Ej Sidle, Rose Strickman
Why You'll Love This
This anthology exists specifically to prove that werewolf stories don't have to be boring — and thirteen authors show up ready to make that argument loud.
- Great if you want: horror that gets weird and refuses to play it safe
- The experience: punchy and unpredictable — each story resets the tone entirely
- The writing: thirteen distinct voices, from darkly absurd to genuinely unsettling
- Skip if: anthology format frustrates you — depth varies story to story
About This Book
The werewolf has been done to death — or so conventional wisdom would have it. Strange New Moons begs to differ. This anthology gathers thirteen horror writers and turns them loose on lycanthropy with a single directive: make it strange. The results range from darkly comedic to genuinely unsettling, exploring what happens when the monster is refracted through class warfare, civic bureaucracy, apocalyptic delusion, and corners of human experience that more cautious writers would never think to explore. These aren't campfire-tale werewolves. They're something wilder, weirder, and considerably harder to shake.
What distinguishes this collection is its tonal range — contributors like Tim Lebbon, Mary SanGiovanni, and Simon Clark bring their own distinct sensibilities, so no two stories feel like they came from the same mind or the same nightmare. The anthology resists the sameness that plagues so many themed collections, instead reading like a conversation between writers who genuinely trust each other to take risks. Some entries land with dread, others with a sharp, strange humor, but all of them take the premise seriously enough to do something genuinely unexpected with it.