Dark Matter Presents Monster Lairs () von Anna Madden

Introduction by Anna Madden

The Last Guardian by Fatima Abdullahi

Goodbye Gutleech by J. W. Allen

Witchroot by R. F. Anding

In Pursuit of the Black Chuck Wagon by Michael Boulerice

To Guard a Garden by Kevin M. Casin

Patch Job by Kaitlin Caul

To Gut a Fish, First Gather its Bones by Lyndsey Croal

To Meld Flesh with Gown and Gown to Flesh by Marie Croke

Karakondzhul in Love by Koji A. Dae

Who Gets to Eat the Sun by Oleander Dudek

Has Someone Ever Dared to Scream? by Victor Forna

Offerings to an Old God by L. P. Hernandez

Sister to the Sea by Jordan Hirsch

Dead East by Andrew Leon Hudson

Her Rotten Tongue by Vanessa Jae

Your Ballad From Within His Gourd by Ai Jiang

God Stalker by Wailana Kalama

The Right Side by Alex Langer

Moloch's Children by Rajiv Moté

The Hunger, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been by Leah Ning

A Journal of Strange Creatures and Beasts from Africa by Damilola Oyedotun

A Matter of Grace by Zachary Rosenberg

Paladin by Abhijeet Sathe

Story Eater by Jean Strickland

Wick, Wax, and Tallow by Kanishk Tantia

Old Bog Bones by Gretchen Tessmer

Said the Spider to the Fly by V. F. Thompson

Exuviae by D. Matthew Urban

"Moonshine" (אוֹר הַיָרֵחַ) by Emily Ruth Verona

Stories Between the Ribs of the Great Monster Tyron by Carson Winter

Withering by Lucy Zhang