09/22/2026 Book Review: MONSTROUS By Bryan Smith
Bryan Smith is an icon in the horror industry, with two Splatterpunk awards and dozens of novels, novellas, and collections that showcase his incredible range. His new novel, MONSTROUS released today from Flame Tree Press and it is an outstanding read.
MONSTROUS
By Bryan Smith
SYNOPSIS:
Accompanied by an unsuspecting target, an aspiring serial killer journeys to a remote mountainous location at the same time as a woman looking to bury evidence of a heinous crime walks the same trail.
A sudden unnatural storm transports them to a mist-shrouded field that rolls on for countless miles in all directions. A towering skyscraper stands at the centre that they both must enter – a plaque on the door reads simply, MONSTROUS, a hint of the surreal cosmic horrors lurking inside.
Have they been delivered to this strange place for a chance at redemption, or for some ultimate form of punishment not available to earthly forces? Will they ever know the truth?
Review:
MONSTROUS is a phenomenal new horror novel from Bryan Smith, and it is a shining example of Bryan's skill, creativity, and imagination. With a well-balanced mix of mystery, madness, and horrifying revelations, Smith weaves a complex tale within a dizzying labyrinth that slowly reveals the terrible nature of the place that traps the lost hikers within, leaving more questions than answers as they explore the tower. MONSTROUS is a darkly disturbing tale of cosmic horror that will keep the reader trapped in its pages until the last word.
Highly recommend for any lover of cosmic horror and for all Bryan Smith fans!
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Bio:
Bryan Smith is the author of more than fifty horror and crime novels and novellas, including Depraved, Slowly We Rot, 68 Kill, The Killing Kind, The Unseen, The Freakshow, House of Blood, and many more. He has won Splatterpunk Awards twice, once for best novella (Kill For Satan!) and once for best collection (Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories). With Brian Keene, he co-authored an original Harley Quinn story for DC Comics’ House of Horrors. 68 Kill was adapted into an acclaimed film starring Matthew Gray Gubler of Criminal Minds fame. Bryan grew up in Nashville, USA and now lives in the Midwest.
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