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Also by Joshua Palmatier:

Combat Monsters, February 2025
Paperback / e-Book
Reaping the Aurora, May 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Throne of Amenkor Trilogy, November 2017
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Reaping the Aurora, August 2017
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Threading the Needle, July 2017
Mass Market Paperback
Threading the Needle, July 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Shattering the Ley, July 2014
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The Modern Fae's Guide To Surviving Humanity, March 2012
Paperback / e-Book
After Hours, March 2011
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The Vacant Throne, January 2009
Paperback
The Vacant Throne, January 2008
Hardcover

COMBAT MONSTERS
By: Joshua Palmatier

Blackstone Publishing
February 2025
On Sale: February 11, 2025
ISBN: 8874748434
EAN: 9798874748432
Kindle: B0DDRHNHVQ
Paperback / e-Book
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Fantasy Anthology | Fantasy Historical

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.

New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju?

This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the “unreality” of war itself. Each story—and two poems—feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history. Dragons rise and fall, witches cast deadly spells, mermaids reroute torpedoes, and all manner of “monsters” intervene for better or worse in the global turmoil of World War II.

Together, Combat Monsters challenge the very definition of monstrous, with the brutality of war as a sobering backdrop.