In these pages you'll find the dark stars you grew up watching: Frankenstein, Dracula, Mr. Hyde, the Phantom, the Hunchback...all the silent ones and the first to find their voices are here, and they're even presented in roughly the order in which they first appeared on a silver screen. The Haunted House of the '30s gives way to the Werewolf of the '40s, the Monsters of L.A. Creature of the '50s, and so on, all the way up to our favorite modern boogeyman, the Zombie. In some of these stories, you'll find an earthly incarnation of a famous namesake: Frankenstein is a patched-together, homeless vet, the Invisible Woman is so ordinary you'd never see her; but some of these familiar friends - Dracula, the Devil, or those seriously creepy Clowns - will be instantly recognizable."Lisa Morton is becoming the horror author’s version of Meryl Streep, I mean, she keeps writing books worthy of award nominations and wins. She has done it again!... This is an excellent and diverse collection of horror, dark humor and weird fiction. It is also an informative love letter to the city Morton calls home..." - Postcards from a Dying World"Unlike other collections and anthologies, where I feel free to jump around and read stories at whim, I kind of felt like this collection needed to be read from front to back, kind of like how you listen to certain albums beginning to end. Pink Floyd, anyone? While comparing this book to one of those iconic records like The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon might be a stretch, it's a good book that really shows a love and abiding dedication to a city that is long fabled as a glitzy train wreck. Monsters of L.A. might not be a love letter to the city, but it's definitely a love letter to monsters." - Wag the Fox"...an unpredictable and entertaining collection." - Robert Morrish, Twilight Ridge" I was expecting it to be just a tidbit of each story but some lead into each other. I loved it... If you like horror you will love this collection. Some of the stories are bizarre and even scary. Best of all they are well written! I highly recommend this book!...I give Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton 5 of 5 stars." - Sweeping Me"This book was nothing like I was expecting. I thought it was going to be a sort of silly story that happened to have characters that duplicated as classic monsters all sort of tangled together in one large story verging on the convoluted. Monsters of L.A. is nothing like that... it’s a great collection of stories ranging from funny to creepy to heartbreaking..." - Working for the Mandroid"What Lisa Morton managed to do was way beyond what I thought this book would be about. She was able to breathe new life into twenty staples of horror Hollywood. ..The longest story, which is also my favorite, 'The Urban Legend', was simply brilliant. It took the legend of a race of lizard people living beneath the city and brought it to life through character and story. It was a brilliant example of this authors work, work that I would love to read more of at some point in time." - Wordsmithonia"This collection of short stories is one of the best I've read, some intertwine within each other and some are stand alone but the adaptations of popular myths and monsters is brilliant...The very essence of this book is to adapt popular fiction and find new and interesting ways of retelling them and it works amazingly well...Morton is very talented at adapting the stories to create her own interesting take on them!!" - Passion for Novels