Art by M. D. Jackson
This post begins: This is the first in a series of articles on writing Monster Stories. It is only fitting that the first author we should focus on for tips on creating monsters is H. G. Wells. Jan Stacy and Ryder Syvertsen’s The Great Book of Movie Monsters (Contemporary Books Inc, 1983) features two hundred and thirty five of which seventy-five (a third!) are directly descended from Wells. He was a futurian and a social rebel but he was also a monster writer.
