THE MONSTER HUNTER FILES Contributors
From Bryan Schmidt:
With pleasure, I announce the final table of contents for the first anthology of works by other authors set in Larry Correia’s New York Timesbestselling Monster Hunter International universe. This will release from Baen Books sometime next year (cover and details pending).
THE MONSTER HUNTER FILES
Edited by Larry Correia & Bryan Thomas SchmidtTABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION by Albert Lee, MHI Archivist
- ‘Thistle’ by Larry Correia (Owen and his team take on a new kind of monster in Arizona)
- ‘Small Problems’ by Jim Butcher (MHI’s new janitor has to deal with some small problems)
- ‘Darkness Under The Mountain’ by Mike Kupari (Cooper takes a freelance job in Afghanistan)
- ‘A Knight Of The Enchanted Forest’ by Jessica Day George (Trailer park elves versus gnomes TURF WAR!)
- ‘The Manticore Sanction’ by John C. Wright (Cold War era British espionage with mummies, golems, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon)
- ‘The Dead Yard’ by Maurice Broaddus (Trip goes to Jamaica on some family business)
- ‘The Bride’ by Brad R. Torgersen (Franks wasn’t the only thing Benjamin Franklin cut deals with)
- ‘She Bitch, Killer of Kits’ (a Skinwalker Crossover Tale) by Faith Hunter (Jane Yellowrock teams up with MHI)
- ‘Mr. Natural’ by Jody Lynn Nye (an STFU mission in the 70s has to deal with plant monsters and hippies!)
- ‘Sons Of The Father’ by Quincy J. Allen (Two young brothers discover monsters are real, and kill a mess of them)
- ‘The Troll Factory’ by Alex Shvartsman (Heather gets some help from MHI for an STFU mission into Russia)
- ‘Keep Kaiju Weird’ by Kim May (a Kitsune may have already earned her PUFF exemption, but she’s not going to let some monster squish Portland)
- ‘The Gift’ by Steve Diamond (Two of the Vatican’s Hunters from the Blessed Order of Saint Hubert the Protector on a mission in Mexico)
- ‘The Case of the Ghastly Specter’ by John Ringo (while studying at Oxford, Chad takes a case)
- ‘Huffman Strikes Back’ by Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Julie Frost (Owen’s vacation gets interrupted for some monster revenge)
- ‘Hunter Born’ by Sarah A. Hoyt (remember how ulie didn’t get to go to her prom because of monster problems? Here you go)
- ‘Hitler’s Dog’ by Jonathan Maberry (It is WW2 and Agent Franks really hates Nazis)
The stories involved not just Owen Z Pitt and his usual team, but Agent Franks and lesser known monster hunters from history, including stories set in the Revolutionary War and World War I periods as well as a crossover with Faith Hunter’s New York Times bestselling Skinwalker series.
My comment: tucked away in the middle is “The Manticore Sanction” which is my portrayal of the English branch of Special Task Force Unicorn.
Here is the opening:
When Her Majesty’s government decreed that he must murder his fiancée before New Years, Madhouse Harry thought it only reasonable.
Sir Henry ‘Madhouse’ Adrian Scrope, 24th Lord Scrope of Wormsley Hall, had served the Crown loyally for thirty years in hidden wars against unearthly horrors. MI-13 was Manticore, Metahuman, Abnormal, or Non-Terrestrial Invasive Cryptozoological Organism Research and Extermination, and it did not officially exist.
In Serbia, he had lost his right arm in the teeth of a creature that also did not officially exist: an invulnerable lioness the size of a lorry, not to mention his Enfield revolver his grandfather had carried in the Boer War. He still missed that piece.
Scrope knew the risks. The girl he loved did not; she must never know. It was for that reason he intended never to carry through with the engagement.
He had spent fifteen minutes, no longer, raging and refusing. Less than that would have seemed suspicious. His partner, William Fox, now stood next to him in the lift. Both wore sunglasses and overcoats. There their similarity ended. Fox had fifty pounds more muscle than Scrope, was five inches taller and five years younger. And he had both hands.
One of those hands was in his overcoat pocket, holding the pistol that would put a bullet through Scrope’s back at the first sign of hesitation.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
