Harry Turner and Margaret Byrne meet, marry, and have two daughters, Sydney and Eunice, several years before their son, Noah, is born. The author makes this work by adding a magical element and offering a terrifying mix of fantastical and real-life nightmares. Noah is the narrator, but this narration is a bit unbelievable at first, because he is not born until much later in the story. But as the story progresses, the monster becomes bolder and more tangible, especially for Noah Turner, beginning when he is six years old. At first, the monster seems to be a fanciful illusion to whomever it appears, effected maybe by an overactive imagination. Shaun Hamill’s first novel, A Cosmology of Monsters, is about a monster stalking a family across three generations. Horror can be both real and imaginary, but where do monsters come from? How do they come into existence and thrive? What makes them seek out humans to scare, befriend, abduct, or even kill?
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