"Monster 3"

Monster 3 continues the series with essays on the Christmas ghosts of Charles Dickens, two classics descended from Bram Stoker's Dracula, the cases of Edgar Allan Poe as ghostbreaker, Mike Shayne's weirdest case and the ghost writer who penned it, the Science Fiction of G. Peyton Wertenbaker, a history of Space Opera, Edmond Hamilton's the hidden World, Keith Laumer's Bolos, Philip Wylie, robots both from Isaac Asimov and others, Science Fiction Mysteries, Tarzan of the Apes and who will control his legacy, Doc Savage, Batman. Susan C. Petrey and three appendixes on writing Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. As with all the Monster books, the focus is on the fantastic and how it is expressed through monsters.