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A chilling collection of Canadian stories exploring the boundaries of reality. What lurks beneath the snow, in the water's depths, or whispers on the wind across Canada? This unique anthology unveils all-new, cross-genre tales that delve into real and imagined worlds.From encounters with the Métis Rugaru to trolls grappling with modern life, and demons carried from ancestral homelands to Anishinaabe myths of creek creation, these stories redefine the unnatural. Eighteen emerging and award-winning authors explore the blurred lines between human and monster.
For fans of Canadian literature and speculative fiction,
Those Who Make Us offers a powerful exploration of identity, belonging, and the stories that shape us. Discover the creatures, myths, and monsters that challenge our understanding of what it means to be human.
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Kelsi Morris of Toronto works in the publishing industry, focusing on genre fiction and graphic novels. She graduated from the University of Guelph with a degree in English and Philosophy, and used it to turn her life-long love of speculative fiction into a career of editing books, starting at ChiZine Publications, where she also helped create and launch ChiGraphic, CZP's graphic novel imprint. She actually enjoys reading slush, and has done so for ChiZine, The Friends of the Merril contest, and Ellen Datlow's
Fearful Symmetries anthology. Along with co-editing
Those Who Make Us: Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories for Exile Editions, next year will see
Over The Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins, co-edited with Derek Newman-Stille. Kelsi was also a contributing author for the Canadian Video Game Award-nominated
Lights Out, Please. Outside of books, she finds happiness in black coffee, red wine, and dragons. www.kelsimorris.com.
Kaitlin Tremblay of Toronto is a writer, editor, and game developer. She is the author of the upcoming book
Borderlands about the video game franchise
Borderlands, and is the co-author of the book
Escape to Na Pali: A Journey to the Unreal about Epic Game's 1998 hit video game
Unreal. As a game developer, Kaitlin produced the collaborative interaction fiction anthology
Lights Out, Please, which was nominated for five Canadian Video Game Awards. She gives talks about subversive storytelling and is a game design mentor for youth and adults. As a critic, Kaitlin has written for
Playboy,
Vice,
The Mary Sue,
Unwinnable,
Canadian Notes and Queries, and others. Her poetry has been published in
Carousel,
Rampike,
(parenthetical), and other print and e-zines. Kaitlin is currently a senior editor at Inhabit Educa-tion, a children's educational publishing company. www.thatmonstergames.com
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What resides beneath the blankets of snow, under the ripples of water, within the whispers of the wind, and between the husks of trees all across Canada? Creatures, myths and monsters are everywhere - even if we don't always see them. This is a unique and powerful collection of all-new, cross-genre tales that take the reader into real and imagined worlds.
