Mike Mignola gave us Hellboy, so it’s probably not surprising that he’s designed a totally bizarre new monster, which you can glimpse above. But what the hell is it? That’s an excellent question, since it’s on the cover of a new anthology called What the #@&% Is That?
What the #@&% Is That: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and Macabre is edited by John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen. It was inspired, in part, by a meme that blew up in 2012, showing a crazy Lovecraftian monster with the title What The Fuck Is That, and a pull quote from Stephen King: “I don’t know what the fuck is going on.”
So every one of the stories in What the #@&% Is That includes a moment where someone asks that oh-so-pithy question. And here’s the list of contributors:
- Seanan McGuire
- Alan Dean Foster
- Christopher Golden
- Amanda Downum
- Simon R. Green
- Scott Sigler
- Laird Barron
- John Langan
- Tim Pratt
- Gemma Files
- Nancy Holder
- Jonathan Maberry
- Adam-Troy Castro
- Maria Davhana Headley
- An Owomoyela & Rachel Swirsky
- D. Thomas Minton
- Desirina Boskovich
- Terence Taylor
- Grady Hendrix
Below is the full cover of the anthology, revealed exclusively on io9. The book comes out in August 2016.
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