Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and writer James Aquilone’s Monstrous Books has celebrated the traditions of pulp fiction and classic movie monsters with Monstrous Magazine, an acclaimed black-and-white magazine-format comic book anthology which features some of the most interesting and inventive genre writers being published today. Monstrous Magazine will look east for the inspiration for its next all-star anthology: Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue will celebrate the legendary monsters from Japan, just in time for the ongoing global celebration of Godzilla’s 70th anniversary.

The Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue is now live so check out the exclusive below and make sure to back it before time runs out.

Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue features a fantastic line-up including:

• “The Colossus From the Crater,” a brand-new sci-fi short story set on a remote moon and featuring a giant alien mummy, penned by novelist Greg Cox, who wrote the official prose adaptation of Godzilla (2014), soon to be reprinted in a new omnibus edition.
• An all new kaiju design by Dinosaur Sanctuary mangaka Itaru Kinoshita
• An all-new Konga vs. Gorgo comic, featuring the creatures from the cult 1960s American International Pictures movies and Charlton Comics, written by James Aquilone and illustrated by Dave Swartz (Confederate Monster)
• The first appearance of the Kaiju MegaSquatch, in a comic book story by James Aquilone and EV Cantada (Joe Ledger, Grimm Fairy Tales) 
• Three iconic covers — a Konga vs. Gorgo cover by Larry Tuason (Knightingail: The Legend Begins), a MegaSquatch cover by EV Cantada and colorist Zac Atkinson and a Godzilla cover. 

Just like the creatures themselves, this magazine (previously digest size) will be enlarged to a full-size 8.5-x-11-inch format.

Previous issues of Monstrous Magazine, feature a mix of comics, prose stories, and articles. The debut issue includes:

• A collectible cover by Colton Worley
• An essay by Elvira Mistress of the Dark writer David Avallone about the legacy of his father, pulp legend Michael Avallone
• A reprint of pulp legend Michael Avallone’s first short story “The Man Who Walked on Air, ” originally published in Weird Tales in 1953
• The very first Dead Jack comic, “Dead Jack and Oswald Meet Frankenstein,” written by James Aquilone and illustrated by J.K. Woodward
• “Monster Rally,” a comic story by Nancy A. Collins with art by Zac Atkinson

Other rewards for the Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue campaign include the debut issue of Monstrous Presents, a 32-page comic reprinting “Rise of the Morlocks” and “Dead Jack and Oswald Meet Frankenstein,” both by James Aquilone and artist J.K. Woodward.

Check out the exclusive reveal of the Kaiju Challenge Coins then back Monstrous: The Kaiju Issue now!