Monsters Of Elsewhere

This is one of those books you don't realize how good it is until you are lost somewhere in the middle of the story and realize you haven't put it down since starting. It's an unassuming read at first, yet a powerfully good read. Like many other indie fantasy books on this list, the story premise is weird. But specializing in the non-traditional fantasy -- stuff the traditional pub world is afraid to risk on -- is what makes indie fantasy so surprising, and sometimes like in this case, very rewarding. Monsters of Elsewhere is a whimsical tale that brings to mind something dark and horrific crafted by Neil Gaiman -- a children's fairy tale gone horribly wrong. Other indie fantasy books on this list delve into gritty lands or strange landscapes and "caverns measureless to man." But Waldram takes you into the world of fairy tales and monsters hiding under beds. A world that Gaiman has so successfully brought to the masses.  And Waldram is does the same with Monsters of Elsewhere and succeeds. Read it and be delightfully scarily entertained.