Relicts & Revenants: Monsters of the Week II

Give a min-maxed adventuring party a dragon in the dungeon, or some orcs, or even a green slime, and they'll be pretty sure how to respond; but there are other monsters in the manual, and if you pull them out of the dungeon and into the present day, who knows how more normal people would react -- or if they'd even be able to recognize them for what they are.

A return to the themes of a once-a-week project (https://www.wattpad.com/story/169529894-monsters-of-the-week) originally published in 2015, Relicts & Revenants takes more randomly-selected entries from the AD&D Second Edition Monstrous Manual and re-stages them in new environments -- a demilich in remote subarctic Quebec, an imp in the burned-over firewakes of California, a mist dragon fleeing climate change in the south of China -- for thirteen new stories of fantasy, horror, and the generally weird, publishing Mondays from January through March 2021.

This series is now and complete, and collected in
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0917QCJ69
including an additional new novella, "The Caged and the Free".

cover image from "A Caribou Rack Lying at The Foot of the Hill Which Is The Site for Pump Station #4. View South Along Pipeline Route" by Dennis Cowals for the Environmental Protection Agency, August 1973, Galbraith Lake, Alaska [public domain]