LaValle, Victor D.

After centuries of seeking love and compassion, Frankenstien's monster has finally given up that hope, and is now the Destroyer, eliminating the scourge of humanity wherever he can find it. Along the way he meets Dr. Baker--a descendant of Frankenstein, who has his own motivations--who partners with him in this endeavor. Two scientists arrive believing they are there to save Dr. Baker from the monster, but quickly realize that they might have to protect the world from the monster and Dr. Baker.

Apollo Kagwa's father disappeared when he was just a young child. That's when the strange recurring dream began. Now a father himself, Apollo finds himself facing the bewildering disappearance of his wife. His hunt for truth in the twisted lies of his life takes him on an odyssey he never imagined.

Provides twenty-five speculative fiction short stories that address a future America, be it utopian or dystopian. Each of the twenty-five writers were given a directive: to present "narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths, release us from the chokehold of our history, and give us new futures to believe in.".

In this retelling of H.P. Lovecraft's infamous story "The Horror at Red Hook," Charles Thomas Tester is a con artist who disguises himself as a street musician to hustle money on the streets of 1924 Harlem in order to provide for himself and his father. Desperate for money, he takes a job at the home of Robert Suydam, a wealthy man from Red Hook, only to become involved in the opening of a portal to another dimension and the summoning of an evil force.

Ricky Rice, a middle-aged, small-time hustler, and the sole survivor of a suicide cult, is working as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until a letter arrives summoning him to Vermont, where he joins with a group of people searching for the source of the disembodied voice they have all heard at some point in their lives and that may or may not be God.