Victor Frankenstein is the first to unlock the key to life, but not the last.
Over two centuries of relentless advancement, five more minds find the secret, and five more creatures are made. Five more stories end in tragedy. From the stinking streets of 1850s London to the sun-drenched hysteria of a modern cruise liner, amidst passion, jealousy, art, obsession, desperation and war,
Creatures is a hidden history of a forbidden science.
Biggin, Rose: - Rose Biggin is a writer and theatre artist based in London. Her published fiction includes "A Game Proposition" in Irregularity, "The Modjeska Waltz" in The Adventures of Moriarty and "The Gunman Who Came In From The Door" in Defenestration. Her writing for theatre includes genderqueer retelling Victor Frankenstein, Plunge--a play about coffee and culture that flows backwards in time--and Live Art performance BADASS GRAMMAR: A Pole/Guitar Composition in Exploded View. Her book Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience is published by Palgrave.
Meloy, Paul: - Paul Meloy was born in 1966 in South London. He is the author of Islington Crocodiles and Dogs with Their Eyes Shut, and the collection Electric Breakfast. His work has been published in Black Static, Interzone and a variety of award winning anthologies. He lives in Devon with his family.
Moore, David Thomas: - David Thomas Moore is the Fiction Commissioning Editor at Rebellion Publishing, and the editor of Holmesian alternate-universe anthology Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets, Shakespearean shared-world Monstrous Little Voices, Stokerian pseudohistory Dracula: Rise of the Beast and Kiplingesque anti-colonial anthology Not So Stories. Australian by birth, he lives in Reading, England with his wife and daughter.
Newman, Emma: - Emma Newman writes short stories, novels and novellas in multiple speculative fiction genres. She won the British Fantasy Society Best Short Story Award 2015 for "A Woman's Place" in the 221 Baker Streets anthology. 'Between Two Thorns', the first book in Emma's Split Worlds urban fantasy series, was shortlisted for the BFS Best Novel and Best Newcomer 2014 awards. Her science-fiction novel, After Atlas, was shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke award and the third novel in the Planetfall series, Before Mars, has been shortlisted for a BSFA Best Novel award. Emma is a professional audio book narrator and also co-wrote and hosted the Hugo and Alfie winning podcast 'Tea and Jeopardy' which involves tea, cake, mild peril and singing chickens. Her hobbies include dressmaking, painting, and role playing games.
Thompson, Tade: - Tade Thompson lives and works in the south of England. He is the author of the novels Making Wolf (which won the Golden Tentacle Award at the 2016 Kitschies) and Rosewater. His short fiction has been published at Interzone, Escape Pod, Apex Magazine, Ideomancer, and Interfictions. His work has been included in a number of anthologies including Dangerous Games. His background is in medicine, psychiatry and social anthropology.
