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Cover of GREATER THAN HIS NATURE. A 1920s-style illustration of a mad scientist's lair atop a red-rock bluff, with a green background and orange desert in the foreground. Text reads: "Greater Than His Nature: twenty tales of mad science"

In every laboratory, every experiment, there are two diametrical energies at chaos and control. The raw pandemonium of what is, and the diamond-sheen of what could be. And in between? Blood, bones, and broken hearts. Because no equation, no solution, will ever be able to contain the wild entropy of the human soul.

Within these pages, you’ll find reverse mermaids and murder-spiders and bloated flesh-monsters tearing down the Golden Gate Bridge. A nurse waving a patient into a haunted MRI machine. A reimagined Mary Shelley obsessing about her galvanic guy. The dead will come back, organs will grow where you least expect them, and “healthy” will be outed as a disease all its own, the most damning by a long mile.

Because, like the highest-born hopes of bodies sacrificed to progress, like the darkest dreams of the brains behind the beakers, mad science truly knows no bounds.

Featuring new fiction from Katharine Duckett, A.T. Greenblatt, Ally Malinenko, Tyler Battaglia, Samantha H. Chung, Jonathan Fortin, Brianna Nicole Frentzko, Josh Hanson, Wade Hunter, M.W. Irving, Pooja Joshi, Andrew Kozma, K.L. Mill, Lena Ng, Robert Perez, Zachary Rosenberg, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Violet Schwegler, and Nicole M. Wolverton. Edited by Eirik Gumeny.

Greater Than His Nature, Various Authors, Edited by Eirik Gumeny

Publication Date: Oct. 24, 2023
ISBN 979-8-98845-200-3
Sci-Fi / Horror
218 Pages / Anthology

Editor’s Note

Content Warnings:
violence, blood and gore, body horror
, death/grief, miscarriage

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