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Combat Monsters: Untold Tales of World War II by Multiple Authors

Notes on the Work Chosen as the Best Anthology of 2025 by FanFiAddict. Publisher’s Weekly says, “Herz makes good on the fascinating premise of his latest anthology, bringing together 20 high-octane stories that add terrifying monsters to the battlefields of WWII. The creatures range from the familiar—the vampires in Peter Clines’s “The Night Crew”—to the more obscure, including taniwha, a monstrous serpent from New Zealand, which features in Lee Murray’s “Breakout.” That variety is also manifested in the list of contributors, which puts genre titans like Jane Yolen and Jonathan Maberry alongside relative unknowns. Herz himself provides one of the…
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