In their latest book entitled Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu gifts us with a dozen captivating short stories that playfully highlight the literal and figurative monsters that haunt our lives.
In one story, an engaged couple plans their humdrum wedding while climate change rips up the world, alongside a kaiju monster traveling from coast to coast. In another story, a husband and wife repeatedly murder each other, only to then print out another copy of their partner's body. During that printing process, each spouse indulges in a moment of solitude, for better or worse.
With dark humor, lucidly poetic prose and an inventive imagination that leaps off every page, in this collection Kim Fu finds a way to pinpoint those moments of dislocation that anguish the heart. These stories bring to life the constant aching to be and belong as we navigate through a complex maze of chaos, grief and absurdity, and those fleeting moments of desire, passion and joy that we constantly seek out and long for.
This isn't a horror story collection per se, but the level of dramatic realism in each story is enough to give the reader chills.
