Product Description

A collection of stories by a variety of authors about young people with one common characteristic--they are all monsters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2234297 in Books
• Published on: 1985-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 213 pages

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader
Part of a series of 'Young' anthologies, aimed at a more youthful bunch and as such often featuring kids, even though written by adult writers. This has a bit of a horror/supernatural bent, in general.

Young Monsters : Homecoming - Ray Bradbury
Young Monsters : Good-by Miss Patterson - Phyllis MacLennan
Young Monsters : Disturb Not My Slumbering Fair - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Young Monsters : The Wheelbarrow Boy - Richard Parker
Young Monsters : The Cabbage Patch - Theodore R. Cogswell
Young Monsters : The Thing Waiting Outside - Barbara Williamson
Young Monsters : Red as Blood - Tanith Lee
Young Monsters : Gabriel-Ernest - Saki
Young Monsters : Fritzchen - Charles Beaumont
Young Monsters : The Young One - Jerome Bixby
Young Monsters : Optical Illusion - Mack Reynolds
Young Monsters : Idiot's Crusade - Clifford D. Simak
Young Monsters : One for the Road - Stephen King
Young Monsters : Angelica - Jane Yolen


I want to feel the wind beneath my wings. Or I'll cry.

3.5 out of 5


Take that you old bat.

3.5 out of 5


Morgue ghoul snacks.

4 out of 5


Bad spell of behaviour.

2.5 out of 5


Fatherhood rather unpleasant.

2.5 out of 5


You ban reading, don't blame us if you are eaten by monsters, stupid parents.

3 out of 5


Witch Queen reflection.

3 out of 5


Werewolf boy recruit.

3.5 out of 5


Monster boy.

2.5 out of 5


Werewolf family visit.

3 out of 5


A gloating homo superior doesn't notice his use of mental power is being attempted on someone who is blind.

3.5 out of 5


Not the best bodysnatch ever chosen.

3.5 out of 5


What sort of people go to 'Salem's Lot? Not smart ones, that is for sure.

4 out of 5


Hitler angel a lot to answer for.

2.5 out of 5

Not just for kids
This book is out of print now, which makes me sad. It's an anthology I first got as a kid (okay, so it is a kids anthology), lost my copy, then years later got niggled by half-memories of the stories enough to search out a second copy.

It's got some really nice short stories there that I haven't seen anywhere else, like Angelica by Jane Yolen.

I also reccomend Young Mutants in the same series, also out of print. Amazon has these books secondhand, and I'm honestly considering buying extra copies, just so I can force them on people.