[Book] North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
Book cover North American Lake Monsters is a collection of short horror or at least suspense stories. One short, The Monsters of Heaven, won the Shirley Jackson Award, and this book is on its third printing. Several of the stories introduce a monster, but the monster itself is inactive ... in one case, already dead, leaving these stories to be more about the evil we bring with us where the monster is just a catalyst or even excuse for some all-too-human transition into bad behavior....