What do Dune, Star Trek, Star Wars and The Thing have in common? Iconic writers who have written for them are all appearing together in a new anthology, Hearts of the Abyss: Tales of Monster Love. We put together the most talented, critically acclaimed and award-winning authors, and told them "Write a story with a monster and a romance, and the rest is up to you."

This is what they came up with.

• MOTHMAN AND THE DISCO DEMON, by G. D. Falksen

• RAVENOUS, by Satyros Phil Brucato

• THE VOICE OF THE TREES, by Tatiana Carey

• DRACULA’S GUEST, by Bram Stoker

• WE, by Ross E. Lockhart

• THE MAGIC HOUR, by Emily S. Whitten

• ANNABEL LEE, by Edgar Allan Poe

• MY DINNER WITH DENNIS, by David Gerrold

• NUPTIALS, by Kevin J. Anderson

• THE TELL-TALE HEART, by Edgar Allan Poe

• SWEET SELENE, by Christian Curry Akuna

• AN EXPRESSION OF COUNTENANCE, by Robert Greenberger

• THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL, by Oscar Wilde

• THE OUTLIER, by Steven Peros

• THE MONKEY’S PAW, by W. W. Jacobs

• GOBLIN MARKET, by Christina Rossetti

• NEPHTHYS, by John Shirley

• THE OUTSIDER, by H. P. Lovecraft

• UNDER THE PALE MOON, by Kyle Arem

• TRANSFORMATION, by Mary Shelley

• BENEATH SHIFTING SANDS, by Matt Yang King

• THE THING BETWEEN US, by John Gregory Betancourt

Edited and illustrated by Evelyn Kriete